Djent: Near-Death Metal
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- Опубліковано 23 жов 2022
- What is Djent? Just a strange guitar noise? Or a spiritual experience? Possibly both. I do not own the music. It is for educational purposes, as always. I do not make any money from this channel, so donations are appreciated. ko-fi.com/whatsinameme
Songs used in order: Closed Eye Visuals by Meshuggah. Bleed by Meshuggah. Angel of Death by Slayer. Strength Beyond Strength by Pantera. Rational Gaze by Meshuggah. CAFO by Animals as Leaders. Unite to Defy by Xerath. Exhilarate by Born of Osiris. Pennyweight by After the Burial. Enter My Dreams by Veil of Maya. Ride the Lightning by Metallica. Revolution is my Name by Pantera. Closed Eye Visuals by Meshuggah (again). Ji by Periphery. Circle with Me by Spiritbox. Angel or Alien by Born of Osiris.
I personally think the definitive djent song is Reptile by Periphery. It has a bit of everything: orchestral elements, stupidly overcomplicated riffs, 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0, some Tesseract-esque progressive elements (the last 4-5 mins), and pretty much every vocal style associated with djent, conveying a pretty cool story.
So happy you finally talked about Spiritbox my favorite band
man i understand the copyright things but Periphery is so unique in the blend of Prog and Djent. Their newest album is such an awesome trip, Reptile and Satellites are masterpieces
Cant wait for P:V
fore sure. Blood Eagle is a Djent masterpiece as well
@@s3_555 FACTS so hype
@@franciscoferreira5010 First time I heard blood eagle, my brain nearly broke. That riff is just nasty
@MattBoy As a person who discovered Periphery and Bulb (Misha Mansoor's semi-solo project) back in 2012, I fell in love with Misha's jarring and sonically dense riffs. Above all, his guitaristry drove the first and second album. Bringing in the guy from Haunted Shores was a great move and there is still a reminiscent feel of Misha's signature style in P2.
However, I personally think that after the CLEAR EP their sound changed drastically into a more homogeneous sound. What I mean is that you no longer hear Misha being the one driving the energy- now everyone is, Spencer especially.
The mix in later albums is clean and methodical. Lots of slower-played songs in general with lower bpm gives the band room to help flesh out concepts and ideas, but perhaps they sacrificed in part a vision of what Periphery originally sounded like.
I can't be bothered with arguing if they are still "Djent" or not, but I will posit the idea that if you take "Insomnia" from P1 and pair it against "Blood Eagle", you're getting totally different products.
Vildhjarta is probably the closest band to Meshuggah that I've heard. They're also Swedish, check them out!
Thall THALL!
You're so right with the djent-core subgenre. That's what I listen to as well. Pure djent is indeed rare.
that 4-count in the intro of Combustion by Meshuggah always blows my mind
You explain every metal genre so well. But I am disappointed that this one is so short. Nonetheless, fantastic work as usual. I've loved every single video you've posted about the metal scene.
So just to summarize, Djent is a genre that is dominated by extremely heavily groovy guitar riffs and rythm sections while discussing the spirituality and destination of the human struggle.
Oh don't forget the DUHJENT
Sludge metal video? The second most underrated genre after funk metal I think.
He did mention it in the doom* metal video
no Northlane mention? the Discoveries and Singularity albums in particular
Can’t believe this
@@aspenlievert4145 as an australian i am hurt, one of our best modern exports
@@AndrewSmith-ub6xs exactly same here- literally my favourite band. Thornhill too. Invent animate could have had a mention too
Don't forget doom eternal's soundtrack, which is a blend of the original doom soundtrack mixed with a djent style guitar tone and polyrhythms
Also djesus, really heavy whatever that last clip you played was
Great video as always man. Would've liked to see Tesseract here, as I also think they bring a slightly unique sound to the genre. You played some Xerath a few videos ago and since then I've been listening to the III album quite a bit, so thanks for that.
Thall is life, life is Thall, it should be included in this video
Djent is like thread:
Is like Meshuggah mixed with metalcore
I'm loving these videos! So glad I found this channel!
djent is an addiction
YES! YOU MADE IT! I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS! Thanks dude!
This series has led me to so much more awesome metal music I never even considered. Thanks man, keep up the good work.
Your channel is a pure gold. Good video as always, I hope you will get more recognition.
your videos are helping me broaden my horizons when it comes to metal and for that I`m eternally grateful!!
You nailed it. Those are the most consistent dajenters.
Freakin’ love this guy. I’ve been binging all of his videos LOL. Most underrated channel on youtube istg.
absolutely amazing video would watch again
I love your videos man, they're always so insightful and...deep I guess? For lack of a better word, they just make me think a lot about stuff like the universes beyond our comprehension in this case, thanks man, truly inspiring stuff
Such a good channel man. Keep at it and you'll really make it big. Also ty for showing me so many bands
just amazing video
Because no one does it like Meshuggah.
"There can be only one."
Great video, learnt some stuff
The last album of BornOfOsiris is incredible
Noice video, really interesting as the others of your serie ! :)
I'm surprised that you didn't mention how djent often has this otherworldly quality and ambience to their music as well, whether it's in the clean guitar tones and/or synths that are sometimes layered into the music, and how they're often used as softer, ambient passages in intros, bridges, or outros of songs. This only further proves your theory of how djent has the overarching theme of transcending into other realities/planes of existence.
True. I wanted to play more music examples in this vid, but the copyright game is a minefield.
Suggestions for the type of music you mentioned please
@@bepresent4235 I would say bands like Vildhjarta, Humanity's last breath and Fractalize are pretty close to the sound he was referring to
Nice video, although i didn't expect the video to be shorter than the usual metal subgenre breakdown that you did before, probably because djent is pretty straightforward when compared to other subgenres. Also maybe there should be a small discussion about thall, since thall seems to be a revolution of the djent
Thanks to this video Djent is my new binge genre!
Great video
So worth the wait
Damn man, you just got really deep. Too deep. I don’t know what kinda weed you’re smoking but sign me up. You just connected transcendence with thrash metal. Thank you.
If anyone ever asks me what djent is, I’ll just tell them that it’s Doom (2016)’s metal songs, but without the electronic elements lol
Very interesting never thought about any of these band names like this before.
I waited a long time for this video….
*Djent exists*
Jared Dines: "Hello there!"
PURE RIFF-ERY!!!
Meshuggah were the ones to stare into the void, everyone else can only harness a fraction of the final shape they saw.
I think Vildhjarta is also Worth mentioning in the Context of Djent. I think they Sound different but still fit in without Just copying Meshuggah
Fuck yeah man!!!
Keep these videos coming, we all know the sub sub sub genres of metal are never ending.
"The Periphery if you will"
Thank you for that
I wasn't expecting where this was going.
Awesome channel. Would love a sludge vid
It's next!
Darko US' new album uses sounds of Meshuggah too. When I heard it, they had a mix of KoRn and Meshuggah.
I really like this video and the breakdown (lol) of what defines the "genre" of "djent". I do not even use djent as a genre descriptor, I use it as a sound descriptor. The Djent is like The Chug or The Slam. You can chug, but not be chugging deathcore. You can slam, but not be slamming death metal. You can djent, but djent is not a genre.
A lot of the local metal bands in my area around 2013-2016 were literally just Djent-Core as you define it; a lot of djents with deathcore/metalcore style breakdowns. A few of those bands went more towards the side of "thall" (google that genre) or just straight beatdown hardcore (think Traitors, Spite, Bodysnatcher, Filth, etc), as were the trends at the time.
I would like to see you do a video on Thall as a genre because that is funny as hell watching djent kids, hardcore kids, and thall kids all argue about the validity of thall and djent as genres.
EDIT:
also after a few months of watching your videos, you finally earned my subscription. can't wait to see what you do next.
frontierer released an awesome album last year
Be’Lakor has absolutely nothing to do with this video, but you know why I’m here. Great video by the way man.
god, i cant wait for power metal
For anyone looking for recommendations: i think they might be considered more as Prog Metal, but Haken is really good! So are Tesseract and Monuments.
I know everyone knows Meshuggah is the principal band behind the Djent sound, and then Periphery brought it screaming into the 2010's, but another band that i think is really important to the aethestic of Djent is Fear Factory. They were tuning really low and playing very synpocated chug riffs with syncronized kicks in the mid 90's, they had a bunch of electronic production in their music about 15 years before every other band started doing it, they were one of the first bands to mix screaming and clean vocals, their production was always crystal clear and incredibly heavy and pretty much every one of their albums from Demanufacture onwards are all part of one over-arching story!
i really thought he would mention fear factory in this one
I have a feeling Fear Factory will be mentioned in an industrial metal video, since they're often regarded as being industrial metal as well. I also have a hunch that if WIaM continues with the whole "self vs X" theme in these metal subgenre analysis videos, then I wouldn't be surprised if "man vs machine" was the overarching theme that he concludes for industrial metal, considering that Fear Factory's lyrical themes consist entirely of futuristic dystopias, machine uprisings, and science fiction.
@@ZekeNigma really good point! Industrial metal is definitely rooted in the man vs machine theme, there are also a few NIN songs with that theme, on top of being about self hatred a lot
@@ZekeNigma very interesting
Could Maybe add Sybreed too?
Great video as always but I hoped you would have talked abt jinjer one of my favorite bands lol. Not pure djent like meshuggah, cuz like u said noone is lol, but def djent influenced.
NEW VIDEOOOOO!
Thanx
Please do Neo-Classical metal next.
It's a very niche subgenre that I think deserves more recognition for it's unique sound, and I think that it has a lot of potential that is not used to the fullest by Neo-Classical artists.
It's my favorite subgenre tied up with Melodic Death Metal.
Edit: Made a playlist with random Neo-Classical songs I can think of at that moment for What's in a Meme so that he can have an idea of what the sound of Neo-Classical is.
Abso-freaking-lutely!
Neo-Classical brings new life to old musical compositions. Can i recommend you the band First Fragment?, Avant-Garde TechDeath, with many neo-classical aspects to their songs, even some jazz thrown into the blender. Both of their albums, Gloire Eternelle and Dasein are to be enjoyed with the best quality possible.
@@itsdokko2990 I'll check them out when I have time. Tech Death is influenced by Progressive Metal which is the second biggest influence on Neo-Classical Metal (asides from Baroque) so I can see how a Tech Death band will take influence from Neo-Classical elements.
neoclassical metal is a wikipedia genre lol it never existed
@@liltito1519 It existed longer than Metallica
@@anqareliouth2921 what is "neoclassical metal" and what bands play it?
I'm surprised Car Bomb hasn't been mentioned, they're basically just modern day Meshuggah
finally someone mentioning that
Holy shit that Xerath made my jaw drop lmfao
5:38 i know this is probably me going way off the fence but having just seen them live, i could absolutely see now why some people call loathe djent.
theres always an argument to be made that any modern metalcore band uses djent elements, but the sound in their album I Let It In And It Took Everything definitely does that combination of metalcore (with its more hectic tracks like Broken Vision Rhythm and Gored), post-metal (taking on more luscious, HUM-esque gaziness in songs like Two Way Mirror and A Sad Cartoon), and djent (polyrhythm djundjundjun in so many tracks) you mentioned with Spiritbox, most notably in the title track at the very end.
the lyrical content as well definitely evokes "the aftermath of 'me vs the world'" imagery that you mentioned. the band were intentionally vague as to what every song meant, to the point where they said that it was more an anthology of stories as opposed to something more linear like their last two projects, but if anything, at least from my own interpretation, it almost feels like their most complete story yet. starting on a song about destructive tendencies and going against the norm Aggressive Evolution & Broken Vision Rhythm, plus a revisit of this theme in New Faces In The Dark, which even has a similar "metalcore" influence as the former two), later reminiscing on everything you lost (Two Way Mirror, Screaming, Is It Really You?), before letting the weight of your own actions own actions consume and crush you entirely (Gored, Heavy Is The Head, A Sad Cartoon {foreshadowed in Two Way Mirror with the mirroring of the "what would you do if you weren't afraid"), and finally reflecting on the aftermath with the title track.
the band themselves call the song a "deconstruction of safety", i see it more as an afterlife where the narrator succumbs to all of their vices and lets themselves be consumed by it just so they can finally be free; a freedom they dream about in the first proper interlude of the album, 451 days (a unit of time that coincidentally equals 1.23456 years. not too important to the theme i just thought it was funny). the sound even makes it feel like the aftermath of a party (albeit based on the sound of the last couple of tracks before it, a very bleak one). the lights have gone out, everyone's gone home, and you're just left there, still in denial that last call was hours ago. the band also kept who "it" was vague, so it really could be anything, and a lot of listeners have theorized that it could be depression, but i like to believe "it" is the world. it is cruel, and unless you keep your head up through most of the bad (a topic explored in a band that's much more "alt metal" in its sound but got relentlessly compared to Loathe back then, Lotus Eater's Where The Body Goes), it'll almost always win, and it'll almost always be because of you. after all, as the live prologue declares: "today, i am no longer afraid. today, i leave my doubt behind. today, i leave my worry behind. because today, i let it in, and it took everything."
it's gonna be real hypocritical of me to say this given i still haven't given the album a proper 9, but even if it has way less of an outreach compared to the albums you've done for What's In A Masterpiece (almost everyone's heard Nightmare and &JFA, the only people who've heard ILIIAITE are people who got lured in because it "sounded like deftones"), i'd love to hear your own take on the album, i feel like it, and even their last album The Cold Sun, is a perfect fit for a style of video like yours.
Vildhjarta are also big part of Djent party.
You know when djent came to prominance around 2010/2011 I was still playing metalcore live and never really could get into djent like I was into Deathcore/Metalcore/Posthardcore. Wasn't until the "djentcore" bands came out that I started getting into djent. It was almost like overnight in like 2012 where every metalcore crabcore band or melodic hardcore(which was popular also at the time) changed their sound to djent, added breakdowns and it was amazing and fresh. Was shortly after though prob by 2014/2015 that it just got really oversaturated and you started to see the beginnings of nu metalcore around this time such as issues/backwordz and that was more capatible with a mainstream sound aka easier to sign and get on bigger tours so djent bands either stayed djentcore or moved to prog metal or prog metalcore(bands like erra) or that nu metalcore sound and it's basically been that way since.
I don’t know if this will seem pointless, but when and if you finish this metal series, it would be awesome if you combined them all into one long, nearly exhaustive video of the different families of metal music, how they relate to eachother and what they generally mean. For anyone even remotely into heavy music, it could make a great “one stop shop”. Just an idea!
I'll think about it. But that might crash my computer. Lol
'Sup, man
Spinoff episode: t h a l l
I was wondering where Periphery fit into this, Tesseract too. Both of them are typically called "djent" but I've always seen them as just prog metal. Tesseract is like if Meshuggah made pretty music.
As for Spiritbox, their earlier stuff is actually more proggy than songs like Circle With Me, which sounds more poppy. They've even referred to Tesseract as an influence, which you can hear in some bass parts in their older stuff. I'd like to see them go back to that sound...
Can you do a video on Powrviolence, Grind, Thrashcore, Emo-Violence etc?
Okay, so with the whole afterlife theme thing, veil of maya is named after a song by the prog death metal band cynic, so it doesn’t really work.
nice video but I've missed a bit northlane and thall lol but thank you for describing me my taste in music
I feel like "thall" stuff is the closest thing to a continuation of Meshuggah's style and direction as we'll get. It's going away from the hypnotic rhythms and dreamlike ideas, and more into a nihilistic horror aspect.
Djent, Mathcore, most Alt Metal, Metalcore, most Nu Metal, Math Metal, Prog Metal have similar origins yet derived from different bands who had very similar taste of music or way being musical with their band projects and sounds they even acknowledge each other existence.
By the way most have extreme Metal origins not just Thrash Metal, Extreme Metal usually derived of when different bands or sole musicians get experimental with their music, notes, sounds and musicality they come to agreements and merge what they like however usually Metal or rock or punk etc some of the earliest before Death Metal and Deathcore were Crust Punk. .
I got totally lost... I will keep on listening to Def Leppard
On the wise words of Spencer Sotelo of Pure-riffery “perceive beyond the seams”
This went from a djent explanation video to philosophical video lmao
You sir almost lost a subscriber almost calling Meshuggah "djentcore" I was about to flip the table.
Issues combining djent, metalcore and R&B is the best thing to happen
Would you guys consider tesseract to have metalcore elements? Because I never really considered it that way.
Bruh I was wondering the lack of Periphery half way through
Then I hear "the border between life and death" and I know where it is going ☠️
Architects bro, it's like christian themed djent. Also Spiritbox singer is the singer from iwrestledabearonce back from the warped tour days.
Dude explore the UK scene! Loathe, Lotus Eater, God Complex etc.
Here's a cool idea for a video....THALL !
As far as bands sounding like meshuggah go, Coprofago sounds identical at times. Like the first few tracks in their 2005 album especially
Uneven Structure is a good band to look at for more atmospheric feel on the "djent-core" sound
This fucking this. Innocent was the song that instantly caught me
For more bands that sound somewhat like meshuggah I recommend Letters From the Colony and V3ctors
Obviously they don’t sound exactly Like them but still they’re damn good
Also Sybreed
If you want djent that sounds similar to Meshuggah I'd reccomend anything by Fractalize, Scarve-Irradiant and Prayer-Alpha. Alpha is a fun one as it's the only band that I know of that's a Christian djent band
i'm not the biggest metalhead out there, by far, but i do listen to some metal in general without so much of a sub-genre preference, but one thing i have to say is there aren't many bands quite like Spiritbox whe it comes to making me full of energy and being like "fuck that's a nasty low riff". Maybe a few Veil of Maya songs but i don't listen to them as often
I know it's "technically" not metal but would you ever consider covering heavy hardcore or beatdown hardcore? I would love to see you cover bands ranging from Hatebreed to Knocked Loose.
I covered Metallic Hardcore in my Metalcore video, mentioning Hatebreed, but perhaps I will do another video in the future.
@@whatsinameme5258 Ok but I think there is still some material for you to make a video about the new heavy hardcore bands like Kublai Khan and Knocked Loose.
There was this UA-camr who described djent not as a subgenre, but a style. For example, there is no technical metal, but there is technical death metal, or technical deathcore. Don't know how accurate it is because I don't know what genre would meshugah be then. But I'll leave that for you to decide.
Vildharta?
did you know the album Nothing is written with direct reference to a book from the author Jeremy Narby called the cosmic serpent. Listen to Rational Gaze most of the lyrics are quoted from this book.
Sounds interesting. I will look into it.
Calling 95% of djent bands djent-core seems a bit reductive. Eg. Tesseract, Uneven Structure, Textures, David Maxim Micic, Vildhjarta etc. are all djenty, but I would not call them -core. The examples that you did give (veil of maya, born of osiris, after the burial) certainly are yes, but I don't think they represent such a big majority as you make it sound
well those are the remaining 5%
what about Car Bomb? they're almost more Meshuggah-like than Meshuggah itself (if this even makes sense)
make one for hardcore punk?
I would agree that 95% of the bands at least are more djent-core and not Meshuggah-djent, but I want to give you some albums you might not know that are more inspired by the Meshuggah-esque death/prog djent than metalcore.
Vildhjarta - Masstaden
Polars Collide - Grotesque
Cloudkicker - Solitude
Stengah - SOMA SEMA
WAIT - The End of Noise
Kobong - Chmury Nie Bylo
Khabal - The Divine Deception
At Odds - At Odds
Atria - Reincarnation
Riccardo Moccia - Sensed
Edit: When it comes to the themes of Djent, the djent-core bands typically make them about transcendence (aka: Us winning the fight against the world), but from the bands that are closer to Meshuggah, including Meshuggah themselves, they typically write their music in the theme of the world winning the fight against "us" it takes over our free will, our personhood, and identity.
I can't think or hear about Djent without thinking of youtube because of Jared Dines and StevieT.
“While we all have lots of bands who influence, still we all rip off Meshuggah…” -Devin Townsend
😂Near-death metal omg the pun
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Mick Gordon at all. His DOOM soundtracks are what introduced me to this type of music… unless it’s not Djent but something else. Industrial metal? Idk
It’s def djent
no its just electronic music because no real instruments are involved
@@liltito1519 nto true at all lol
@@cryptictriscuit207 how?
@@liltito1519 ua-cam.com/video/5a9E3n_VZRQ/v-deo.html
Even Tesseract?
where's Mick Gordon's work for doom? that shi- has some heavy djent
no mention of Thall?
Exacly my thought, its like a slap to the face not mentioning Vildhjarta and Thall subgenre
why metalcore and deathcore bands seems so the same ?
So would you consider this to be the metal for Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal? Power Djent?
Definitely somewhat Djent at least.
In fact that actually perfectly ties my video in with the game, as in Doom you literally go into the afterlife (hell but still)
damn so no Within The Ruins???
The only "djent" band in existence is Meshuggah and I preffer to call them Progressive Groove Metal, everything else is just avril lavigne with breakdowns.
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