They’re playing Euroblast, along with Tesseract.

I agree that the er.. genre?  is pretty oversaturated with many-a Paul band-Wagonner, but you still have a holy-shi number of excellent djentlemen (I mean pretty much the entirety of Euroblast is djent).  You just need to sift through all the rubbish, just like any other form of metal.

I always liked Meshuggah, but I feel that it didn’t start turning poppy until Threat Signal’s Under Reprisal. While a solid album overall, it totally opened the gates of imitation DJENT-Hell…now for sale for 9.99 on iTunes.

You guys are actually surprised? Djent was played out as soon as it was termed “djent”. That’s the shittiest lame-ass name this side of “slam”. 

whatevs, djent sucked anyway

djent meets lacuna coil.  you feature mash up abominations like design the skyline and attack attack and you’re really surprised?

oh and djent was always poop

djent meets lacuna coil.  you feature mash up abominations like design the skyline and attack attack and you’re really surprised?

oh and djent was always poop

Of course it’s the new trendy pop metal thing. It’s always been that way. The minute you use those hooky guitar riffs, in addition to the uber-lame clean vox. It’s like the metalcore revolution all over again. Where’s the fucking balls in metal anymore?

I’m going to go euthanize myself now.

I’ll take this over scene-core or nu-metal.

It’s not terrible but I’d prefer to listen to Periphery. Like any genre with staying power, Djent is getting saturated. You’re not going to like them all. Duh

Djent was not supposed to be the next annoying pop metal trend? If not djent, then what? Of course it was supposed to be the next annoying pop metal trend.

And how much is CM promising you in ads next year for the daily mention of a band no one else is talking about but you?

Djent bands are mildly entertaining but everything starts sounding samey after a while.

Djent, coming soon to a local buttrock radio station near you! 

Who gives a shit? Ever consider the term “pop” is becoming less and less meaningful with the online music revolution? More people with more access to more music. Look where metal is these days.

I get it, I get it. You’re the blog owner, and a blog is in itself a bucket of shit – abbreviations, accusations, assumptions, assholes attacking other assholes… founded on genre labels, advertising, and the need for control…

We need Brutal Truth now more than ever!

What is people’s beef with djent?  Can’t one enjoy Death Metal and Djent all in the same sitting?

Can bands stop plagiarizing Meshuggah and SikTh? Like please?

I’d rather listen to this than most djent. At least this band sounds interesting.

The ubiquitous hate for djent never fails to disappoint me. Is it the new big thing, just as deathcore was six years ago? Yes. Does that mean it’s bad? No! These djentlemen are all incredibly talented musicians. I heard this demo preview months ago and I have been really excited to hear the final product ever since.

I guess every genre has its detractors.

What do you mean djent wasn’t supposed to become the next metal-pop crap trend? That’s like saying hardcore wasn’t supposed to be last season’s next metal-pop crap trend

actually not as bad as i was expecting

But their name is DESTINY POTATO.

That’s fucking amazing.

Djent sucks, just like Meshuggah sucks

genre nazi much? Even if something is pop, you could at least say why you don’t like it other than simply “it’s pop music”. This seems alright. Just because it’s slower than 300bpm doesn’t mean it’s automatically pop music and 10 year old girls will be singing along to it.

anyway isn’t pop music just a simple way of saying popular, catchy music, usually heard on radio/tv etc? i doubt you would hear this on any station other than the rock/metal niche radio stations and TV channels.

and who listens to the fucking radio nowadays anyway

Ladies, ladies, pull the dildo out of your ass and calm yo tits. Don’t like djent, don’t listen to it, I’m sure theres tons of other beta progressive blackened sludgecore deathgrind bands out there for you to discover and fanboi over. Oh well, Betas gonna beta.

is that autotune i hear?  cuz that would be the real crime.  otherwise i don’t find the concept so bad, although i won’t listen to this and don’t listen to much djent (unless you count meshuggah).

Stop being an elitist and grow up…

Djent just has more syncopation and more of a rhythmic focus than metalcore/deathcore did, but because of this bands don’t work on their harmony or structure. Syncopation is whats in breakdowns that makes you want to band your head, but it gets real old real fast if you limit yourself to playing the same fucking note over and over again. Every djent breakdown consists of playing a single note staccato style half-time to a syncopated rhythm under a less syncopated drone/lead part. And even if your single note 8th string djent-down consists of more that one note, its probably just because there was a chord change and you have to play the root note for THAT chord OVER AND OVER AGAIN. No melodic elaboration whatsoever. Minimal harmonic variety(did someone say diminished chord?) and even less harmonic knowledge. The song structures suck (djenty br00tal hook-filled>soft melodic hook-filled part>reapeat). There are only so many 16th notes (16, if you were wondering) in a 4/4 bar, so you better make sure those notes aren’t all F#s if you want anyone to remember your band.

ITS POPULAR SO I CANT LIKE IT.   how old are we now?

Really? You guy didn’t see this coming? You’re shitting me, right? Periphery’s song “Jetpacks Was Yes” is right up any Gaga fan’s alley.  I mean like actual Gaga fan, not just some idiot who just likes her singles.  It has a catchy riff and chorus, their singer uses a voice that’s easy on the ear and it’s got great ambience in it.  This is a good thing, not a bad thing, it means that this is the next genre of metal that will break through.  

Pop music, in it of itself, is not a bad thing.  Madonna, Michael Jackson, and now Godga were all very talented artists who put out, and in Godga’s case wrote, a lot of quality music,  Sure there were some turds every now and there, but how many artists haven’t put out a bad album? There’s good pop music and bad pop music, it doesn’t surprise me that you elitist mouth breathers aren’t smart enough to realize that there’s good music outside of genres that you enjoy.  

If Djent is now pop I welcome it with open arms, for one it means that really talented bands like Periphery and hopefully Animals as Leaders will get their due and be able to play at venues they should be playing at. It also means that Metal can bring in more listeners to other genres, you all must admit that you can’t just listen to something like Dying Fetus as your first exposure to heavy or hard music and enjoy it.  It’s an acquired taste.  If Djent is the new gateway genre into heavier stuff or metal in general I’m all for it.  Metallica, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, and Judas Priest can’t fly the flag for heavy music in the mainstream for much longer and someone’s going to need to step up sooner or later.  

also its really funny that you put Destiny Potato up, you know a band that isn’t Djent, and doesn’t claim to be Djent. But is simply accepted by the Djent community, like most music and genres are, because we aren’t a bunch of douche bag elitists.

You know what, Vince, you’re a total hypocrite.  I’m sure I’ve seen you jacking off to Poison or Motley Crue or Kiss or some other turdly pop metal from the 80s.  Or maybe it was Axl.  Who the fuck knows?  All I know is that someone who runs this site has their tongue up the asshole of turgid 80s cock rock.

But I mean, if you want something to really rage about, and I mean REALLY RAGE that is shitting all over your precious djent, go on fucking youtube and search for DJENTSTEP.

Seriously.  I mean, really.  Who gives a shit?  It’s just a guitar tone, man.

This is not for me. 

I find it easy to masturbate to.

I’d rather have pop-djent than the awful djentcore stuff that’s all over the place nowadays.

Vince, calm down. You’re going a little Alex Jones on us right now. I don’t think it’s a bad thing, djent is not easy to play, and the more bad ass guitarist, drummers and bassist we have in this world , the better it is for our collective music world..

Just popping in again to say I actually listened to this today and this was fucking awesome. Oh and Lady Gaga is fucking awesome as well. Look at me, listening to more than cavemen death metal! Diversify people, it won’t kill you.

I’d rather listen to this girls voice than some dude who sounds like his balls got obliterated in a wood-chipper. 

Way to prove you are a fucktard once again BEN!

This is not new. Anyone remember To-Mera?

Music is personal. Music is intimate. Music comes in many forms. Music is taken in, and anything that is taken in is therefore put back out. If a musician listens to Djent constantly, they become accustomed to the ways of Djent. You can go out and immitate Djent artists like Meshuggah, TesseracT, etc., but until you put something into it that makes it unique and your own, it will be found along with the rest. Destiny Potato puts something into it to set it apart from the rest, and that something happens to be a woman singing instead of a guy screaming his face off. Just because there’s a woman singing in the band doesn’t mean they’ve made Djent into “Pop”. Pop is an abbreviation for popular. I hope not to see another article like this until I hear unique music like THAT on the radio every time I drive my car. You wanna blog effectively? Blog for both sides, not one. It looks like you’re complaining. And no one likes a complainer. Blog to provoke thought, not frustration or disagreement.