Djent is one of those genres where there’s so much below the tip of the iceberg. That’s right, we said genre!
Beyond the brilliance of Meshuggah and Periphery, there are a million killer bands and one-off projects just dying to be appreciated. So check out these massively underrated djent albums!
This is some of the tastiest thall that’s ever thalled. Hailing from Finland, Indistinct create harsh and existential djent with some symphonic moments as icing. If you find modern djent a little too polished, give Reign of Silence a good spin.
Are those guitar strings made of adamantium? Fractalize’s 2020 album Immersion is perfectly titled, because it’s one of the most hypnotic groove-based albums you’ll ever hear. No vocals needed for this Moldovan project.Â
Folk thall? Harkla bring together those beautiful Swedish folk metal moments with brutal groove-laden leads. This is a different kind of viking war music. You can just feel the axes fall on snow-covered plains.Â
For you djent fiends who love Periphery and Tesseract, here’s a recommendation for you. Above, Below straddle the line between metalcore and djent, lending their technical instrumentals to soaring and anthemic choruses.
This one-off project between guitarist Gianluca Ferro and former Unearth drummer Nick Pierce is wildly slept on. With djent as its foundation, Breath of Nibiru build epic and progressive realms similar to Between the Buried and Me. Everything about this album is BIG.
You’ll never be stoned enough to full appreciate this album. Imagine throwing an Ion Dissonance record into a computer riddled with viruses. Scrap the vocals and add some tasty Vai-like licks and you’ve got A.I.(d).
A band this great deserves a better name. With a gorgeous pop sensibility, vocalist Aleksandra Djelmash brings this album from Destiny Potato straight to the heavens. There’s so much chemistry going on here — truly a marvel of technical musicianship and palatability.Â
Wanna feel depressed about the future? Crank up some Dali Thundering Concept! Seriously though, this project brilliantly throws together philosophical and dystopian concepts. It’s djenty, trance-y, heavy and kinda fucking hype.
Nothing to see here… just some djent on the beach. Dig into some Kadinja to experience some extremely expansive and lush djent. This is like the chocolate mousse of djent.
This was way ahead of its time for 2013. Nemertines is a more depressive side of djent, exploring the genre’s ambient edges. Amazing stuff to zone out to.Â
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