Periphery Fans (and other Djentlemen) here to help me?

[Kiichi]

Hej gents,
I am really not a djent fan, but when the Juggernaut came out I listened to a handful of Periphery songs to get the feel. Not my cup of tea (I find it exausting and not too interesting to my ears, though I can see why some people like them...though some other djent bands are totally beyond me), however one song stuck with me: Scarlet. Seemed musically nicer, mostly due to the front singer doing clean work. Even reminded me slightly of my beloved Protest the Hero at times. A lot of djent songs seem to put their technically up front, but this one felt like it was about the song.

I guess I was just too old already when this came around and now I stick with stuff like Dream Theater, Transatlantic, Protest the Hero, etc when it comes to proggy stuff.

Now I do not wanne wade through all their stuff and other djent stuff, since most of it is not for me, but I wonder if there are other, at least mostly clean sung, melodic djent songs out there I might like. Got the feeling there might be some gems in there.

For refernce, here is Scarlet: http://youtu.be/ilBOMbvICuc

Thanks & Cheers!

[Dmoney]

I had a listen. I was reminded of stuff like Hope Conspiracy, Thursday, The Haunted, Drowningman. Probably for no good reason. I just was!

[JimmyMoorby]

Hej gents,
I am really not a djent fan, but when the Juggernaut came out I listened to a handful of Periphery songs to get the feel. Not my cup of tea (I find it exausting and not too interesting to my ears, though I can see why some people like them...though some other djent bands are totally beyond me), however one song stuck with me: Scarlet. Seemed musically nicer, mostly due to the front singer doing clean work. Even reminded me slightly of my beloved Protest the Hero at times. A lot of djent songs seem to put their technically up front, but this one felt like it was about the song.

I guess I was just too old already when this came around and now I stick with stuff like Dream Theater, Transatlantic, Protest the Hero, etc when it comes to proggy stuff.

Now I do not wanne wade through all their stuff and other djent stuff, since most of it is not for me, but I wonder if there are other, at least mostly clean sung, melodic djent songs out there I might like. Got the feeling there might be some gems in there.

For refernce, here is Scarlet: http://youtu.be/ilBOMbvICuc

Thanks & Cheers!

From my experience djent in like a poor mans progressive metal and with added emo and putting bass strings on a guitar and having no indivuality whatsoever.

Djent to progressive metal is like what deathcore is to good death metal.

Its what emo kiddies do when they cant quite grasp the real thing.  It gives them a chance to have one foot in the door in those emo/false metal type circles but still having some sort of false sense of superiority over say Avenged Sevenfold or bring Me the Horizon I guess.

EDIT - Probably not a very helpful comment but I think its true! 

DEATH TO FALSE METAL !!

I'm very bored of the djent and deathcore scene now.  I wish the next cr@ppy trend would come along.  What amazes me is some how were expected to believe this is the evolution of metal.....kind of like we were meant to believe with nu metal.

I'll still be listening to the same music I always did and hopefully some new stuff when these sheeple move onto the next thing

[Philly Q]

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Yes Jimmy, but just to be clear, do you like it? 

[JimmyMoorby]

^

Yes Jimmy, but just to be clear, do you like it? 

I can take it or leave it!

[m t soule]

I like this thread. I do agree with kichi about the cleaner stuff. Its why I want a set of juggs of my own.

I really like pessimist by misha and tosin

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UItUYIwkFcc

[JDC]

Scarlett was originally wrote by Mark of Haunted Shores before he joined Periphery so you may like their other stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jp2yKHP8-g

[Kiichi]

Thanks a bunch so far guys, I got some things to catch up on now. Look forward to it. Always like to broaden my musical horizon (which kinda leads me to a NGD sometime in the future, cause I am stupid...).

Now my immediate musical future is to explore more folk, blues, hard rock, pop punk and "tech metal" (or whatever you call this here stuff). A bit of those ideas and techniques in my reportoire should be interesting in the long run, all towards the quest of musical soul searching.

[gwEm]

For refernce, here is Scarlet: http://youtu.be/ilBOMbvICuc

its an interesting song actually. power metal-ish, but also with an american rock feel. like the blend of cookie monster and proper singing.

i think its pretty good. i won't be buying a copy, but would leave it on if it came on the radio.

i suppose the djent itself is just a sound, but i do think it often gets used to make not-very-good music.

[m t soule]

Also it was tge cleaner side of djent that inspired me to open tune one of my rg's and experiment. I came up with this. Its feet are very much on the ground I think, more palletable maybe? I will push its potential once I get the juggs tho.

 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v1zehY4NHTc

[Kiichi]

I like this thread. I do agree with kichi about the cleaner stuff. Its why I want a set of juggs of my own.

I really like pessimist by misha and tosin

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UItUYIwkFcc

I thought it was nice, like a great intro to a song until about half way through that djent riffing came in. Then the song lost me.
Also listened to "Optimist" to compare and liked that better all in all (second part still worse than the first). Still not really my thing. It was a lot more caried by melody, which was great, but still had a too dominant djent rythm for my liking.

Scarlett was originally wrote by Mark of Haunted Shores before he joined Periphery so you may like their other stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jp2yKHP8-g

That kinda struck a chord with me, at least to the degree that I will listen to the whole album ultimatly. Thanks for that! Look forward to seeing what I say after the entire thing. I guess it is not gonna be my new favorite band, but there is a chance it will make it to my MP3 player for variety and to learn something.
Seems a bit overdone, but it has melody, which is key for me.

Also it was tge cleaner side of djent that inspired me to open tune one of my rg's and experiment. I came up with this. Its feet are very much on the ground I think, more palletable maybe? I will push its potential once I get the juggs tho.

 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v1zehY4NHTc

That was quite the relaxing imrov. I like it! Some parts where not too far away from being a nice solo intrumental piece. It even partially had a bit of an Andy Mckee feel to it.
Donīt see what this had to do with Djent, but I will gladly take it. =)

[m t soule]

Cheers man. It was inspired by the djent experimenting with de tuned and alternate tunings on electric guitars/baritones.
In other words even tho, like you, I am not exactly a djent fan I still found something to benefit out of it.

[Kiichi]

Cheers man. It was inspired by the djent experimenting with de tuned and alternate tunings on electric guitars/baritones.
In other words even tho, like you, I am not exactly a djent fan I still found something to benefit out of it.

Listening to it again it makes me thing that you could just sing over it quite easily and have a folky song. Transfer it to acoustic or keep electric and more instruments, voila.
The built in bass line makes all the difference.

Really think it would not be hard to pick a part of that improv and make a proper modern folk (pop) song out of it. If I was not struggeling with lyrics I might just do it.

[38thBeatle]

I have absolutely no idea of what this thread is about but then I thought the Kardashians were on Star Trek so I'll go back to my deck chair and my Enid Blyton.

[Philly Q]