Djent Drumming

This stuff is pretty involved, seems these players like very small kits and throw out the old school mindset of heavy metal means a ton of drums. As for the style, the syncopation is wild and it's way outside my style of playing but I enjoy listening to it.

What do YOU guys think?!
 
Can't link at the moment, Animals as Leaders is the first group to come to mind if you want to do a quick youtube search!
 
I like just a moderate degree of djent but not the real stuff - just too shattered/mathematical/broken/messy to my ears. I like metal (coming from the end-80's stuff), also with some degree of finesse/prog but I think the djent guys are doing it simply to get stuff as complicated as it goes - most stuff tends to lose appeal if overdone. This is where I don't see real musicality. But we're all different, some may exactly enjoy the complexity of djent. I like it when there's some melodies going on, too.

I think that guy doing his solo project - chimp spinner - has been doing djent for a while.

Animals as Leaders are a bit different from the rest - they have a super guitarist who's also using 8-string guitars. Djent also works with 6 strings...
 
I'm sure there are a million pages of people bickering about whether or not music can be "musical" and very complex at the same time so I will leave that one alone :eek:)
as for Tosin's stuff it is almost freeing for me to listen to something and have NO IDEA whats going on, its very humbling.
 
I love it, but it helps that I've been a meshuggah fan for a long time... I can see the older guys not being able to get a handle on it as they wouldn't really enjoy alot of the music these drums go with, but this stuff has been such a breath of fresh air for me - I couldn't care less about metal anymore. Some great djent players that I like:

Tomas Haake
Matt Halpern
Morgen Agren
Anup Sastry
Travis Orbin

Here are some examples

Periphery
http://youtu.be/smCSF6OrfDU

Chimp spanner (Anup Sastry cover)
http://youtu.be/f5kJJonLt44

Meshuggah
http://youtu.be/CUuXiAsV7BQ

Sol Niger Within
http://youtu.be/1cwOL_S11EE
 
Anyone know the orgin of the term 'Djent' and how many "Ladies and Djentlemen" jokes have you heard haha
 
Anyone know the orgin of the term 'Djent'

"Djent, also known as djent metal, is a heavy metal movement that developed as a spinoff of progressive metal. The word "djent" is an onomatopoeia for the distinctive high-gain, distorted palm-muted guitar sound employed by Meshuggah. The term was coined by their lead guitarist, Fredrik Thordendal. Typically, the word is used to refer to music that makes use of this sound, to the sound itself, or to the scene that revolves around it."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djent

I don't like referring to music in sub-genres, but the only "djent" I care about is Meshuggah. Metal bands have been ripping them off since the Destroy Erase Improve and Chaosphere albums. They have their own sound, and they do it well.
 
Some people get sensitive when they hear the word 'djent'. Anyway I play along to some songs as bass drum exercises. If you want to practice AND learn songs, this might be for you. I don't really like Periphery, but one of my favorites to practice to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFkKKNFZYHI

Been a fan of Meshuggah for about 12 years now. I'm not a huge fan of most of the 'genre' though.
 
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