Some more progressive rock...metal...metal-core? Djent?...anyway, djent-metal-metalcore-something with a female singer, similar to that mashup of Bulb and Paramore's singer I posted a bit back.
Red Handed Denial-And the Winner is...
Red Handed Denial-Violent Delights
Red Handed Denial-A Closed Fist Makes No One Happy
Also a cover of Periphery's cover/remixing of Haunted Shores' originally instrumental track Scarlet by Red Handed Denial's singer Lauren Babic found here. Judging by her channel, she seems to cover a bunch of different songs/genres. She seems pretty cool. I mean, it's not often a female singer does screaming/growling vocals.
I'm afraid I'm actually gonna start enjoying growling/screaming stuff. It's...still not my thing, but at least I don't instantly react Ew, growling and shift songs like I used to.
Also, Red Handed Denial covered Hell Song by Sum 41. Is coo' man.
Lastly, symphonic progressive power metal with oriental themes.
Myrath-Tales of the Sands
Myrath-Beyond the Stars
Myrath-Sour Sigh
Myrath- Requiem of a Goodbye
Im too busy listening to Electric Wizard, you know that DUNN metal band right?
What i am trying to say is that Djent isnt a genre.
It could have turned into something but Periphery ruined it and turned it into a shitty glorified bastard child of mallcore full of pretentious kiddies buying 8 strings just because Meshuggah plays em. Thinking that slamming "jazz fusion" or "progressive" or "woo 6+ string guitar" makes them unique and interesting. It dosent, and since when was CHUG CHUG DJENT *awkward piece of electronica or socalled fusion in the middle of nowhere* progressive? Its all dumb gimmicks like repeated sweep picking or some dumb supposedly "unusual" theme like mythology, hacktivism or when their 9th grade girlfriend left them.
What they dont get is that Meshuggah isnt a replicable model.
Having an unusual name, lyrics not about satan or murder(most of the 15 year olds they are targetting wont give a shit anyway), playing unusual instruments(djent turned it into a gimmick instrument), having "polyrythm"(basically a dumb buzzword in the metalscene now, like how cloud and HD and iAnything is in the computer scene) dosent gurantee sales and fans, let alone being unique in any way.
I like Meshuggah and all, but i hate how bandwagoners ripped off their style and created this unending shitflood of solniger riff ripoffs about how oh so cool they are because they turned to a random page in a greek dictionary and named their bands after that.
Being an 8string guitarist myself, in my opinion, it really ruined it for genuine 8 string guitarists, especially other-than-metal 8 string guitarists.
Youtube search 8strings and you will see a shitload if kids doing meshuggah covers, no where to find actual musicians.
Eh. I'm more of a fan of the instrumentals stuff in "djent." Of course, disregarding the argument "djent can't be a genre, it's a guitar sound, derp" which you didn't bring up, I refer to this as djent because it gets the point across. I could call the style in question, such as instrumental stuff by
Bulb, as progressive, but considering it's developed into it's own sort of subbranch with it's own requirements, such as "polyrythyms" or high gain staccato guitar playing or whatever the eff else you could think of, in my opinion it has developed into a genre. Calling it djent is quick, easy, and gets the point across as well.
Yes, there's getting to be lots of "knockoff" bands with "names from a greek dictionary" ....just like there's a bunch of small rock bands, next to unknown rappers trying to make it big like Lil' Wayne and Eminem, (or whatever it is mainstream rap is, I wouldn't know), screaming punk/emo bands with try-hard-rebellious names, etc. In fact, there's
tons of metal bands in general. power metal bands tend to have cheesy lyrics and overdone fantasy themes, death metal is all "RGOOOOOOOOOOOOOW" and "brutal", just flat progressive metal like Dream Theater with all their crazy abstract song themes ( I couldn't really summarize any one song's meaning for you clearly by just hearing it once) and all those other sub genres of sub genres of sub genres of metal that have to consist of bands with their own styles that fit those genres.
Like all "over-filled" genres you just have to wade thru the common stuff to find the quality products.
I just like instrumental "djent," or if you'd prefer another name like "technical-progressive-math-metal". Part of it is because I like hearing it and mentally dissecting how it's played on guitar, it's a fun exercise for me. I really dunno how else to "justify" why it appeals to me, it just does. It's, like, cool, man.
Also I believe the 7 or 8 string guitar is used, among other reasons, for the extra range it can provide as well as being able to play "thicker" stronger sounding chords. That doesn't mean it's required for the "genre". The posers who argue otherwise simply because it's what all the popular guys use are just acting like sheep and giving themselves a bad reputation.
Polyrythym-"the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms, that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter" according to wikipedia. If someone isn't interested in music theory or writing their own music then the meaning is easy to lose on them. Nontheless if enough ignorant people throw the word around enough, yes, it becomes a buzzword...just like all slang.
Djent isn't a genre
Well that's, like, your opinion, man.
------------------------------------------------Musiks:
Bulb-
Breeze,
The Moonstar,
Mile Zero,
Logical,
Epic FailAnimals as Leaders-
On Impulse,
the Price of Everything,
do Not Go Gently-------Tosin Abasi, by the way, the head guitarist and songwriter of AaL,
certainly knows his shit when it comes to 8-string guitars, and he considers the band to be just progressive, not "djent", if that matters at all. I'd say you don't have to lose all hope in 8-strings being ruined by them "musically-ignorant-djent-poser-kids."
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