Djent vs Progressive Rock...

[Jason Mallory]

Sithu Aye are sick!

Totally agree.

[Jason Mallory]

Conquering Dystopia

[Jerry Walker]

I've heard Meshuggah coined the term djent but didn't Metallica actually create the tone when they did the break down in the song One ?

Periphery is definitely djent.

"One" may have created the breakdown, but is not the right tone for djent.

[Jason Mallory]

I guess this would actually be called death metal but it's kind of djenty.

[Sam Davis]

The best examples of djent I know of are meshuggah (obviously), tesseract, and The Ocean Collective

[Sam Davis]

Gojira is pretty djenty sometimes too.

This may give you some ideas: http://www.metalsucks.net/2011/01/31...-and-improved/
It's a small survey done in the UK about djent bands. The number is the amount of people who voted the band as djent.

[Sam Davis]

For prog-metal I would have to say Between the Buried and Me does it best.

[Jason Mallory]

Gojira is pretty djenty sometimes too.

This may give you some ideas: http://www.metalsucks.net/2011/01/31...-and-improved/
It's a small survey done in the UK about djent bands. The number is the amount of people who voted the band as djent.

Cool man... thanks for the link.

[sean applegate]

jerry is right about djent. it is a tone shaping technique. there are a ton of bands that use it now and there has been a sub-genre of prog-metal created that people refer to as "djent". meshugga was one of the pioneers. periphery, tesseract, and fellsilent are all bands that helped to propogate the style. there seems to be an overwhelming amount of bands using this style nowadays. i dig it and it actually takes a good amount of talent to play, so more power to em.

[Aaron Gustaveson]

Polyphia. All the kids in the group are under 20.

to my undereducated ear, this sounds very much like joe satriani.