SOME DJENTY NEW MUSIC
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 2:00pm by Vince Neilstein
When MetalSucks correspondent Angela Gossowski interviewed recent Sumerian Records signees Periphery last month she asked them about the word “djent,” a phrase that appears on some of the band’s t-shirts (pictured above). Guitarist / band-mastermind Misha Mansoor answers thusly:
It’s basically just a guitar sound. It’s not even a word I invented, but it has become synonymous with the band. It’s something we appropriated because of the way we play our power chords. If you play guitar and you play a power chord and you use four notes… you use a big power chord and you palm mute really hard, it makes it really metallic sounding. There are some guitars and amps and pick-ups that are really conducive to that sound, which I’m a very big fan of. So I started describing things that I liked as “djenty,” because they had that characteristic. Just like you would say ‘bright,’ ‘dark,’ or whatever. It just seemed to have caught on for some reason. I actually heard the term from Meshuggah. They’re the ones who coined the term as far as I know. But for whatever reason people have been associating it with us… So if you’re in standard tuning, for all you guitar nerds out there, it would be 0-2-2-4. Or if you’re in drop tuning like we are, it would be 0-0-0-2.
So, Djent. It’s a term I’ve been hearing more and more lately as a result of the fact that it’s a sound I’ve been hearing more and more lately. It’s a staple of the Sumeriancore sound. And I can 100% get behind it! (for now). Here are a few bands that our readers have sent in that I’d definitely classic as djenty.
- Fuge - Scott Bahash sent this one in and wants us to know that it’s “just some guy from Hungary who makes some tracks at home but they blow away any progressive/djenty bands.”
- CiLiCe – Sent in by BTK 666. “Better than Tesseract??” he asks. Maybe so.
- Haunted Shores – The instrumental tracks up on this band’s MySpace page were actually produced and mixed by Mr. Misha Mansoor himself. They sound damn fine, and damn djenty.
Djent djent djent!
-VN
God Forbid does a better parody of that phrase. They have a t-shirt that just reads “God Forbid?”. Can’t find it anywhere on the web…wouldn’t be surprised it’s discontinued. Glad I got one!
So technically speaking it’s somewhere between a power chord and a full chord.
And the “got ____?” needs to be retired. As should almost every over-used, tired cliche.
It’s a power chord that includes higher notes. It still only consists of the base note and the fifth note.
Cyclamen has a song called “djent djent”.
+1 for Cyclamen.
Also, SikTh.
so you augment the chord?
Not really. It’s a regular E chord, but without the 3rd note, thus making it a big powerchord. You could also play 0-2-2-4-5 and still be playing a power chord. Same idea.
HOW I PLAY RED CHORD?
I’ve always thought that sound was a Bwonk or BWAANH.
It just doesn’t seem like “djent” to me.
It’s good to see some of the ol’ terminology from the Meshuggah forum coming into light – not surprising, since Misha has been mega active there over the years.
Didn’t think anyone would remember that. Wasn’t the admin’s band called Tandjent?
so, just how many ss.org folks hang out here too?
CiLiCe is freaking great!
what is ss.org?
jud jud judud
ree nee nee nee
CiLiCe is fucking insane. its like meshuggah on drugs without the repetiveness that can get on peoples nerves.
diode and fractal are my favs of fuge and andromeda for some reason reminds me a lot of born of osiris
oh and ss.org is sevenstring.org
ss = sevenstring.org
interesting site chock full of meshuggabation.
There is a guy from Ohio who during his freetime records awesome metal that for sure fits in that Djent category he’s named Cloudkicker, oh and here’s the best part he has 3 albums and you can download them all for free, how about them apples http://www.myspace.com/cloudkicker
Check out Hydrodjent http://www.myspace.com/hydrodjent . Djenty metal from India. And this guy is a one man band man too….
fellsilent
no made sense
cyclamen
xerath
architects
sikth
visions