Djent

Djent
Stylistic origins	Progressive metal metalcore extreme metal
Cultural origins	Mid-2000s Europe and Washington, D.C.
Typical instruments	Electric guitar bass drums percussion vocals keyboards synthesizers
Regional scenes
Australia Brazil Europe United States
Other topics
Mathcore deathcore technical death metal

Djent /ˈdʒɛnt/ is a style of progressive metal, named for an onomatopoeia for the distinctive high-gain, distorted, palm-muted, low-pitch guitar sound first employed by Meshuggah and SikTh. Typically, the word is used to refer to music that makes use of this sound, to the sound itself, or to the scene that revolves around it.

Fredrik Thordendal, the guitarist of Swedish band Meshuggah, is considered the originator of the djent technique. However, the band did not coin the term itself; the djent scene developed from an online community of bedroom musicians, including Misha Mansoor, whose success with Periphery brought djent "from the virtual world into the real one." Other bands important in the development of the style are SikTh, Mnemic, Animals as Leaders,TesseracT, and Textures.

The scene has grown rapidly, and members of the original online community, including the bands Chimp Spanner, Gizmachi, and Monuments, have gone on to tour and release albums commercially. Other bands that are often considered djent include A Life Once Lost,Veil of Maya,Vildhjarta, and Xerath.Born of Osiris have also been described as being inspired by the djent movement. Furthermore, Hacktivist and DVSR are djent bands that use rapping as primary vocal style.

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