Heavy metal branch
Djent
Heavy metal › Progressive metal › Djent
- Emerged
- 2007
- Origin
- Sweden / United Kingdom
- Subgenres
- None
The name imitates the sound: seven- or eight-string guitars, heavily compressed palm mutes and polyrhythms. Meshuggah built the vocabulary; a generation of forum users named it.
- Heaviness
- 9
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 6
Key acts
- Meshuggah
- Periphery
- Animals as Leaders
- TesseracT