As with anything, there are good and bad examples. Meshuggah pioneered the tone and technique, Periphery meshed it with different forms of music, and there are tons of bands that implement it. It's a tone and technique, nothing more or less.
@stevenhirsekorn3444 I get the sentiment, it's not original by any means, but I still think it can be fun. I'm not even a big metalcore guy, but I love Spiritbox, and they djent. There are few things under the sun that are actually original, being original doesn't inherently mean good, so for me it's a case by case kind of thing. I would agree most of the good "djent" is from the pioneers.
@@bitesizecrayons9187 the problem with djent for me is that a lot of djent doesn’t have that feeling of being actual songs, periphery does a good job of this. However alot of djent bands I hear have no sense of how to write a cohesive song that people will want to hear after 10 to 30 years and be memorable. I have seen both animals as leaders and meshuggah live. Both kicked ass but meshuggah had by far the most visceral crowd and their songs felt way more structured . The point being that alot of what I hear feels like it is written to be a tech demo rather than an actual track
You could snip your chugs while producing, or just play on a heavily noise-gated tone (don't do the former if you want your project to be a live act). I actually like "djent". It's stigmatized because it's popular, and it's popular because it's fun. Maybe not my best take, but I think that's it. I don't always Iike how it's implemented a lot of the time, but it is incredibly fun to jam on those tones. On a good djent tone, attack is very important, and I like that a lot. If you pick harder, it will respond more, and I think this style does this better than most.
I feel like this guy could turn into one hell of an mma fighter just off his face alone. His eyes sit so deep in his head. Obviously a bad dude on the guitar.
