The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Progressive metal style · 1986–

Djent keeps progressive metal’s odd-meter long form and clinic virtuosity, then changes the riff job to a tight, polyrhythmic palm-mute dialect.

Influence

Djent

style · 2009–

Also called djent metal

Kind of Progressive metal

Named late-2000s progressive-metal wave: palm-muted, polyrhythmic extended-range guitar (the onomatopoeic “djent”) plus long-form odd-meter writing (Periphery, TesseracT, Animals as Leaders). It is a style of Progressive metal, not an alias of Meshuggah and not a second Dream Theater. Meshuggah leftover as riff homework, an artist mediator not a parent node. Groove-metal leftover as a neighboring chug, not this polyrhythm job. Tech-death leftover as a neighboring virtuoso bin. Empty Given after that check is historical.

Listen

  1. Bleed Meshuggah (2008) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  2. Icarus Lives! Periphery (2010) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  3. Jetpacks Was Yes! Periphery (2010) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  4. Passenger Periphery (2010) YouTube · Spotify
  5. Concealing Fate, Part 1: Acceptance TesseracT (2010) YouTube · Amazon
  6. CAFO Animals as Leaders (2009) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  7. Song of Solomon Animals as Leaders (2009) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  8. Berzerker After the Burial (2008) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  9. Rational Gaze Meshuggah (2002) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  10. The Price Is Wrong TesseracT (2015)

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Progressive metal → Djent

form and structuremeter and grooveperformance practicestrength: highscholarly consensus2009–2012recordingoral

Mechanism

Djent keeps progressive metal’s odd-meter long form and clinic virtuosity, then changes the riff job to a tight, polyrhythmic palm-mute dialect. Strength high. Meshuggah is the named homework, not a second parent node. Dream Theater grammar alone does not make the “djent” sound.

Evidence

Periphery / TesseracT / Animals as Leaders records that still write suites and odd meters and chug like Bleed; the 2009–10 forum name for that meeting.

Debate

Whether djent “is” just Meshuggah-copy prog. The corpus treats it as a style of Progressive metal with a new riff school, not as an alias of Meshuggah and not as a replacement for the 1986–92 parent.

Mediators

artist: Meshuggah; artist: Periphery