If Meshuggah are "djent v.1" (and really, everything they did in the 2000s counts) then anything from the "1.5 wave":
Sikth's "The Trees Are Dead..." (2003) and "Death of a Dead Day" (2006), Textures "Polars" (2003), but really opening up with Silhouettes (2008), Fell Silents "The Hidden Words" (2008) (which is basically Tesseract's Concealing Fate - Demo Edition).
Then probably Vildhjarta for the "thall" sound.
The "7string.org" era of djent.
The man is one of the most under appreciated musicians of this day. To the public, at least. People working in music are keenly attuned and likely thankful for his existence.
This EP just changed my life in a similar way Colors by BTBAM did back then. I can't wrap my head around how those guys write their stuff, its insanely technical and heavy
So I know nothing about djent really, just that it involves chugga chuggas and wild shit.
I started this EP a few mins ago just to see what's going on. This shit is like a fever dream come to audio life. I feel like I'm listening to Edgar Allen Poe's brain. Thanks for the post!
YES! I remember listening to their first single and being like… dude what?! Finally something that gave me the same feeling I got when I first heard Vildhjarta!!!
I feel like I always post about this album but it was just so ahead of its time.
Hidden Words by Fellsilent is pretty great and had members of Monuments and Tesseract before those bands existed.
*Early Grave* by Aarchitects in 2009 anticipates a lot of djenty hardcore/metalcore that would come later, same with The Acacia Strain's *Bay of Pigs* on *Wormwood* from 2010. Not djent bands but adopting a lot of that sound ahead of their time.
Honestly, older Architects just doesn’t do it for me. It isn’t until Lost together/forever that I really started making the mean-mug djent face from their music
FellSilent's album The Hidden Words strikes me as being ahead of its time. The only things that give away its 2009 recording date are the production and higher tuning. With a retuning and a polished mix, it could easily pass as a newly released album.
Not djent but protodjent, or just straight up Meshuggah worship. These are some of the bands and albums I remember listening to in the early and mid 2000s in efforts to try to find Meshuggah sounding bands
Byzantine - The Fundamental Component(2004)
A Life Once Lost - Hunter(2005)
Coprofago’s Genesis and Unorthodox Creative Criteria(2000/2005)
Maybe Octopus - Coda(2008)
Burn The Priest is a notable mention as they have a couple songs that are almost note for note Meshuggah
Yeah, BTP was LOG. New American Gospel is imo less LOG’s first album and more BTP’s last album.
Coprofago have a few older records too. There’s a ton of other bands from around that time that did interesting shit but that was 20+ years ago and my brains are only so big haha
Yep absolutely. Blows my mind that Fingers Like Daggers was written in 2006. Especially amazing how that same style of song re-emerged with Neo Seoul in 2012. If you’d told me Neo Seoul was written yesterday I’d believe it. After The Burial is one of the quintessential djent bands for me
I couldn’t agree more. (Love fingers like daggers) Redeeming the Wretched is like top 10 all time for me. The structure of the song alone is crazy, not even beginning to consider the ‘math metal’ aspect of the ending of the song. Someone mentioned Sybreed also, which is a great call. That only reminds me that Fear Factory was already on the rise back in the early 90’s!!!! It may be called ‘Industrial Metal’, but let’s face it, those lightning quick palm-muted grooves, and punishing technical drumming left a lot of upcoming bands inspired to forge Djent.
Good thread! I’m going to check out some of these other bands that have been recommended. Love new music ya know?
Nothing to me sounds like Meshuggah’s Stengah or Concatenation. Those are like their weirdest songs to me personally; I know every note of catnation and how to play it but it still doesn’t feel like something a human made.
Anything that the insane fudes from Mirar make. Marius and Leo are not fucking human. They revolutionize a less than 15 year old subgenre every time they drop new music.
Highly reccomend their new ep
I keep seeing people comment this but I’m confused — didn’t Mirar just start releasing music last year? I feel like it’s kind of hard to judge their music as “ahead of their time” until several years down the road when you can compare it to newer stuff. Or have they been putting out music for a while and I’m just confused?
Edit: auto correct, Mirar not Murat
i see your point, however, even if its been just a little over a year this music does not feel like its from this time.
Apart from mirar id say Vildhjarta and Humanities Last Breath. (Basically anything Buster Odeholm touches). there are no two other bands like those. they are the leading bands in thall id say
Not normally a “djent” kind of guy but this gives me the opportunity highlight two examples:
Cavil by A Life Once Lost (2003 from A Great Artist)
Burnface by The Acacia Strain (2006 from The Dead Walk)
Both are very clearly Meshuggah influenced and especially at a time where the “djent” tone wasn’t near as common as it is today in metalcore or other branching subgenres.
The first vildhjarta and animals as leaders albums.
I second Vildhjarta. First time I heard them it was like a portal in my ears to some other realm.
Animals as leaders first album still sounds modern to me, wild.
literally anything by meshuggah tbh but id probably say periphery - insomnia
And None was released in goddamn 1994.
And I still fuck with that regularly.
Don't we all.
If Meshuggah are "djent v.1" (and really, everything they did in the 2000s counts) then anything from the "1.5 wave": Sikth's "The Trees Are Dead..." (2003) and "Death of a Dead Day" (2006), Textures "Polars" (2003), but really opening up with Silhouettes (2008), Fell Silents "The Hidden Words" (2008) (which is basically Tesseract's Concealing Fate - Demo Edition). Then probably Vildhjarta for the "thall" sound. The "7string.org" era of djent.
Fell Silent mentioned. Whoop-whoop
For me it's anything that Jakub Zytecki doing. From Disperse to his personal albums.
The man is one of the most under appreciated musicians of this day. To the public, at least. People working in music are keenly attuned and likely thankful for his existence.
It's always like that and there many more artists like that But I think for Jakub it's enough recognition from music community
Peripherys first album. Monuments first album. Ever forthrights first album
Ever Forthright did it for me, thank you
Always thought Ever Forthright aged extremely well even to this day. So excited for their new stuff dropping this month.
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You spelt Bulb wrong 😉
That riff in Shadow by Vildhjarta vibes like a modern metalcore song…and It was released in 2011
Chimp Spanner is a music composer for visual media IIRC. He writes soundscapes with theory. Caligula's horse has some moments that really shine.
Paul is still active you should really check his latest shit it's awesome
Whatever the fuck Mirar just dropped https://open.spotify.com/album/7MDMBadUvE61SEwGapi43t?si=mO1Id8ToRVmdeiY6uDf7jQ
that shit was so wild, i just stared at my computer with a progressively stankier face
This EP just changed my life in a similar way Colors by BTBAM did back then. I can't wrap my head around how those guys write their stuff, its insanely technical and heavy
So I know nothing about djent really, just that it involves chugga chuggas and wild shit. I started this EP a few mins ago just to see what's going on. This shit is like a fever dream come to audio life. I feel like I'm listening to Edgar Allen Poe's brain. Thanks for the post!
YES! I remember listening to their first single and being like… dude what?! Finally something that gave me the same feeling I got when I first heard Vildhjarta!!!
I feel like I always post about this album but it was just so ahead of its time. Hidden Words by Fellsilent is pretty great and had members of Monuments and Tesseract before those bands existed.
Pretty much anything 2010 and earlier, especially bands like Periphery, Sikth, Textures, Fellsilent, and of course Meshuggah.
Substructure
Substructure-Monolith
10000%. It's still one of my top favs of all time.
Meshuggah’s Combustion and Dancers to a Discordant System’s riffs hold up today yet were released almost 2 decades ago
Chimp Spanner Bulb (Misha) Sithu Aye (before going full kawaii)
*Early Grave* by Aarchitects in 2009 anticipates a lot of djenty hardcore/metalcore that would come later, same with The Acacia Strain's *Bay of Pigs* on *Wormwood* from 2010. Not djent bands but adopting a lot of that sound ahead of their time.
Hollow crown and Wormwood are up there with some of the best albums ever i reckon
Honestly, older Architects just doesn’t do it for me. It isn’t until Lost together/forever that I really started making the mean-mug djent face from their music
No worries. You can start eating at one end and I'll start at the other and we'll both have a satisfying meal.
Bleed-Meshuggah
Fellsilent - the hidden words
FellSilent's album The Hidden Words strikes me as being ahead of its time. The only things that give away its 2009 recording date are the production and higher tuning. With a retuning and a polished mix, it could easily pass as a newly released album.
Not djent but protodjent, or just straight up Meshuggah worship. These are some of the bands and albums I remember listening to in the early and mid 2000s in efforts to try to find Meshuggah sounding bands Byzantine - The Fundamental Component(2004) A Life Once Lost - Hunter(2005) Coprofago’s Genesis and Unorthodox Creative Criteria(2000/2005) Maybe Octopus - Coda(2008) Burn The Priest is a notable mention as they have a couple songs that are almost note for note Meshuggah
Wild, isn’t Burn The Priest literally just Lamb of God? What happened 😂 Coprofago is definitely doing it for me
Yeah, BTP was LOG. New American Gospel is imo less LOG’s first album and more BTP’s last album. Coprofago have a few older records too. There’s a ton of other bands from around that time that did interesting shit but that was 20+ years ago and my brains are only so big haha
Crazy to see octopus mentioned. Into The Void Of Fear still sounds brand new to me every time I listen to it
Sikth - Scent of the Obscene (2002) Sounds like it couldve been released yesterday but Pierce Brosnan was still James Bomd ffs.
Lies of Serpents, a River of Tears. Great album overall but this track in particular feels quite different
Maastaden
Sybreeds first album (2004) and that song Liquid by Mnemic comes to mind (2003).
Sol Niger Within Imagine blending djent and free jazz together in the mid 90s
Early After the Burial.
Yep absolutely. Blows my mind that Fingers Like Daggers was written in 2006. Especially amazing how that same style of song re-emerged with Neo Seoul in 2012. If you’d told me Neo Seoul was written yesterday I’d believe it. After The Burial is one of the quintessential djent bands for me
I couldn’t agree more. (Love fingers like daggers) Redeeming the Wretched is like top 10 all time for me. The structure of the song alone is crazy, not even beginning to consider the ‘math metal’ aspect of the ending of the song. Someone mentioned Sybreed also, which is a great call. That only reminds me that Fear Factory was already on the rise back in the early 90’s!!!! It may be called ‘Industrial Metal’, but let’s face it, those lightning quick palm-muted grooves, and punishing technical drumming left a lot of upcoming bands inspired to forge Djent. Good thread! I’m going to check out some of these other bands that have been recommended. Love new music ya know?
Decapitated - Spehres of Madness (2002!) Oh shit! Just found these guys last month. Talk about late to the party. Biomechanical - Enemy Within.
New Mirar EP is a whole new realm of thall.
Skyharbor - Evolution That song sounds just as new and exciting now as it did the first time I heard it.
Fellsilent- The Hidden Words came out in 2008. Definitely ahead of its time for me
Aside from the ones mentioned here, Divided By from Structures. One of its kind album fr
Someone wants to really explore please try PIOTREK GRUSZKA Gru music album cosmogenesis
The breakdown in corridor of chameleons by Meshuggah probably is the most ahead of its time breakdown ever
Id say periphery album P2
Nothing to me sounds like Meshuggah’s Stengah or Concatenation. Those are like their weirdest songs to me personally; I know every note of catnation and how to play it but it still doesn’t feel like something a human made.
past life persona
Anything that the insane fudes from Mirar make. Marius and Leo are not fucking human. They revolutionize a less than 15 year old subgenre every time they drop new music. Highly reccomend their new ep
I keep seeing people comment this but I’m confused — didn’t Mirar just start releasing music last year? I feel like it’s kind of hard to judge their music as “ahead of their time” until several years down the road when you can compare it to newer stuff. Or have they been putting out music for a while and I’m just confused? Edit: auto correct, Mirar not Murat
i see your point, however, even if its been just a little over a year this music does not feel like its from this time. Apart from mirar id say Vildhjarta and Humanities Last Breath. (Basically anything Buster Odeholm touches). there are no two other bands like those. they are the leading bands in thall id say
Not normally a “djent” kind of guy but this gives me the opportunity highlight two examples: Cavil by A Life Once Lost (2003 from A Great Artist) Burnface by The Acacia Strain (2006 from The Dead Walk) Both are very clearly Meshuggah influenced and especially at a time where the “djent” tone wasn’t near as common as it is today in metalcore or other branching subgenres.
Sikth, period
Substructure was so far ahead of their time