"That's a first," TesseracT's vocalist Dan Tompkins informs us as he looks on at the three men excitedly comparing their guitars on the couch - Misha Mansoor of US band Periphery, plus Brits Acle ...

Metal has so many subgenres and classifications it can be impossible to keep up with them all. It’s so complicated at times that some bands don’t even know what kind of music they play, and some ...

Google ‘djent’ and you’ll be hit with over 2.5 million search results. On Instagram, #djent has been used well over one billion times. So, with players pushing the boundaries of the style of guitar ...

Asking musicians to describe their sound is often an exercise in futility. Other than trying to avoid pigeonholing themselves into a certain subgenre too much, most artists point to general influences ...

Thall is one of metal’s newest, darkest and most inventive movements. From Sleep Token and Spiritbox to Animals As Leaders – check out Red Miso for a savage centerpiece – the sound is now spreading ...

UPDATE (Jan. 12, 2023): Periphery have now released two new songs — "Wildfire" and "Zagreus" — which can be heard further down the page. Did someone just open up a can of worms? Periphery are on their ...

On April 20, 2010, Washington, D.C., sextet Periphery released their self-titled debut album. The release went over even the most loyal metal fans' heads, but marked the beginning of a controversial ...

In the spring of 2010, an explosion of chuggy riffs, subsonic booms and futuristic metal sounds carved a corner for itself in metal. It was called djent, so named because of the djent-djent sounds of ...

A few months ago, we were so pumped for Tosin Abasi when he landed the cover of Guitar World magazine, sharing the front page with legendary shredder Steve Vai. It's two generations of guitar gods ...

This was not supposed to happen. Djent was not supposed to be the next annoying pop-metal trend. When what would later be termed “djent” started brewing in the message boards frequented by guitar / ...

Something I am 110% positive the world did not need is djent-rap, which is exactly what it sounds like. But I suppose it was inevitable that someone attempt djent-rap at some point anyway, because ...

We already know that the word "djent" is one of the worst descriptors ever coined to describe a musical sub-genre. Now, according to the supposed creators of the style, Meshuggah, they claim it was ...