Metal for Everyone, Djent for the Elite

An awkward rant about metal, how much I like it, how I think it is evolving, and how I think there's some metal out there for anyone.

Here's the djent metal bands I listed:
Periphery: (their song "Icarus Lives": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYQyExRZzhw )
Tesseract: (their song "Lament": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My50G5QqUh0 )
Vildhjarta: (their song "Don't Fail Me Now (Lady Luck)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Favl8G8qA )

The chat-handle of the guy I was talking to in the chat on theawesomearchfiend.com : astro_ortsa

Category:

Music

Tags:

• metal
• music
• for
• everyone
• genres
• djent
• future
• opinion
• rant
• RantingRamsay

[twiztidlestat]

Djent.......is not a genre. So....yeah. Quit with the boring elitist hipster b.s Your not an ''elite'', ALOT of people listen to bands that use the DJENT GUITAR TONE...so....yeah

[RantingRamsay]

@twiztidlestat Way to A) Take it personally, and B) assume so much from ONE word in the title (which you obviously misunderstood the implication of.)

It's entertainment. Get over it and yourself.

Djent is indeed a genre in that many of the bands who use said "guitar tone" have massive similarities in their music structure, style, and writing. What the fuck else IS a genre or sub-genre?

P.A. "a lot" is two words. There is no such word as "alot"

[slipknotmaggot4eva1]

Have you heard of Animals as Leaders? Tosin Abasi, guitar God.

[RantingRamsay]

@slipknotmaggot4eva1 Absolutely. If you look at my channel page, and my list of musical influences/likes, you will find them there. :)

[magicmarker92]

that stop nazi poster haha wtf!

[RantingRamsay]

@magicmarker92 It's a Dead Kennedys - inspired banner, from their song "Nazi Punks Fuck Off", but also has some personal meaning as grandfathers on both sides of my family served in WWII. One of them did not make it back.

[ionlypostgoodcomment]

I really don't understand whether DJENT is actually a sub-genre or just a way to play guitar (guitar technique)...but I did enjoy your "rant", I'm digging new bands like Periphery, Tesseract etc. Even though im a Thrash dude my self and fuck yea Testament!!!! \m/

[twiztidlestat]

@RantingRamsay

Typical ''go to'' garbage of grammar bashing when you have little to back up your idea. It is a genre, TO YOU, but since YOU aren't the end all be all of metal, you can feel how you wish. No one is telling you not to. But, also, that doesn't make me incorrect either.

[RantingRamsay]

@JeremyGViking Thank you very much! That is the first clear, concise answer to that particular question I have received in 348 comments. I appreciate it.

And, the little factoid about the Swedish name for D&D is pretty cool too. I shall have to use that at work tomorrow for "Ramsay's Rather Useless Fact of the Day". ("Useless" simply implying "at what point will my knowledge of this fact ever actually be needed?", not a negative connotation.)

[JeremyGViking]

The way you pronounce "Vildhjarta" is pretty simple.

The J is Silent.

Just think Wildheart and add an A at the end then replace the W with a V ..........Vildhearta

Wildheart is the Swedish name of D&D.

[MrMaxxTV]

@Dougiedogg23ws6 haha, me too, till i looked it up. "dent" is actually an onomatopoeia for how the guitar chugging sounds. when misha mansoor chugs, it sounds like "djent, djent, dent, ..." so it's a word for how the music sounds. lol