Djent
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Topic: Djent
Posted By: Prog Geo
Subject: Djent
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:00
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What's your opinion about djent? |
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:03
| There is a serious league of djentlemen around here. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:06
| inb4 Kevin "DJENT DJENT DJENT DJENT DJENT DJENT DJENT DJENT DJENT DJENT DJENT DJENT " |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:08
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Hi Harmonium.ro again.Thank you for answering once again.Yeah there are a lot of bands.What's your favorite from this genre? |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:10
| I am not a great fan, I find this kind of riffage a bit boring. I know Meshuggah and Gojira, both are good but the one I like the most is early Mastodon. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:12
| sure hope you mean Cloudkicker, Alex |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:12
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Hi Triceratopsoil.I see that you like very much this genre.I discovered a band from Germany before 2 hours I think.Here it is: http://www.myspace.com/katatura - http://www.myspace.com/katatura Check them out.Very good band!  |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:14
I don't find Cloudkicker to be djent, at least he sound completely different to the bands I mentioned above. I do like him, but I think he's rather cloudcore than djent. |
Triceratopsoil wrote:Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:14
Yeah!Meshuggah is one of my favorite bands!
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:14
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Hi Prog Geo, You should listen to http://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/album/beacons - this |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:17
Cloudkicker is very good band.And they are djent.Look at this site: http://got-djent.com/ - http://got-djent.com/ |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:20
| I have listened to some tracks from the"Beacons"album.Very good. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:20
Hmm, those guys have a pretty lax definition of djent. They even have Blotted Science there, which is the opposite of djent. |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:23
| Blotted science!Nice band.But some tracks are very technical. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:26
They are one of the essential bands of the tech/extreme scene. But djent does not equal extreme technical metal. Djent are those bands who emphasize crazy riffing, while Blotted Science emphasize variation and intricacies. Cloudkicker is somewhere in between (and not that heavy either). |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:29
Yes I agree.I prefer more Cloudkicker than Blotted science. |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:39
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Blotted Science is NOT djent. Technical death metal does not equals djent.
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Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:42
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How did I miss this thread? Yeah, Blotted Science aren't djent. They have some math metal-ish elements but as a whole are not. Djent is pretty much characterized by the timbre of low-tuned guitars, in addition to heavy math metal/electronic elements and clean production values. -------------  
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:45
naw, djent refers to the guitar sound, not so much the style (although playing style does closely relate to getting a djent sound) it's that ssshhhlugh sort of thing that Meshuggah do, and, indeed, what all of Cloudkicker's guitar sounds like |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:45
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Don't forget the GROOVE Kevin. That's important too. About Blotted Science, that's because of the guitarrist. The guy is a mega technical freak. He is one of the founding members of Watchtower, so he is one of the forefathers of both technical and extreme metal. Impressive how 20 years later he is still alive and kicking! -------------
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:45
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I am listening now to Intronaut's latest and it's quite djent, no wonder Kevin likes them. I'll excuse you for missing this thread Kevin as you managed at least to catch the first page  |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:45
Of course,I didn't say something about that.These are different genres.But there is the combination of them. |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:49
.For Intronaut |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:51
I have no idea about tech stuff so I don't know what this means. I guess it's the same sound Colin was mentioning in his post. Whenever I got examples of djent, the music was similar in style, so I assumed it's a style (with that kind of riffing as the main element). |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:54
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I want opinions for Katatura. |
Posted By: Xanatos
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:55
| In terms of rythm Djent is the future of metal , Animal as leaders is a great example :) |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 16:55
well, to get that sound, you need, basically, EMG pickups, downtuned (or 7 or 8-string) guitars, and heavy palm-muting, which basically limits what your songs can sound like |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:01
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I wait opinions.And it came one album in my mind:Gorguts - Obscura.
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Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:02
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Actually yeah, Intronaut has somewhat of a djenty tone in their latest, but stylistically it's not. Yes Caio, groove is very important. And Ron Jarzombek is pretty awesome, I'm friends with him on Facebook. Animals as Leader f*cking rule, but you guys are all sick of me worshipping them so I'll just leave it at that. And Colin's right, for djent you pretty much need 7 or 8 string guitars and EMGs or Blackout pups. -------------
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Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:09
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Also, this wouldn't be a djent discussion without PERIPHERY -------------
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Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:12
I had downloaded the album in April I think.Bulb is great.Very good album.But I have a problem with these type of vocals. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:12
This is even less helpful   |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:17
Obscura is more an technical / avant metal album, as are most, of not all of Gorgut's works. Not my favorite kind of music but interesting, nevertheless. -------------
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:17
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(off topic) Alex did you listen to Extinction Algorithm's full-length yet? I'm listening right now, it's pretty cool |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:18
Nope, not yet. I have quite some expectations from them, so this is good news! |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:18
Sure.But it has the djent element. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:19
this for sure should be in PA, I think It's pretty heavy, as in like, ponderous, not as in like metal |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:20
This. Alex, listen to Meshuggah's "Closed Eye Visuals" is the best example I can give straight off the bat. The guitars make a very noticeable "djun DJEN djun djun DJENT djun djun DJENT" kind of noise. That guitar tone is djent, and that word itself is just onomatopoeia for that signature sound. That's the thing all djent bands share in common. -------------
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:21
Thanks, that's what I needed. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:22
You make me drool, ok I'll give it a listen when I'm done with cleaning the fishtank.  |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:22
| Whenever you want,go to the post rock/metal topic to continue the discussion. |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:24
I, personally, don't think so. Gorguts did used a lot of distortion and sounds that would be later used by the post thrash metal bands (AKA djen bands), but I don't think they are related. I could be wrong in that matter, since those are not my favorite bands, with the exception of Meshugga, but AFAIK they don't have any correlation. -------------
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:24
| think you quoted the wrong one Caio |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:25
Damn. I'm too lazy to fix it, but i think you got it. -------------
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Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:26
| AFAIK? |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 17:28
As Far As I Know -------------
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 14 2010 at 18:00
Very loose. Even Canvas Solaris is there.  Djent is one of these alleged genres that works well as a stylistic seasoning much better than a main dish. I enjoy those that incorporate it like 1980, Coprofago and Animals as Leaders rather than those who do one thing like Periphery. I was big into it for awhile, but it got old real fast. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 04:04
For sure,djent is an amazing genre of metal.But as you say you are big into it for a while and then you leave from there.Canvas solaris is great band.When you say coprofago you mean the technical death/thrash metal band from Chile,right?) |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 09:15
Yes indeed. Make sure you throw the words jazz or fusion somewhere in the description. At least for Unorthodox Creative Criteria ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 09:47
Yes,do you want to vote to my Skagos poll and to my other polls? |