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Topic: Djent vs Grunge Posted: March 28 2014 at 04:10
Both are debateable as genres becouse they devide the kine between genre or cultural movement, cultural uproar. One is heavely localised to a a city/ state of Washington, Seattle/Aberdeen. Oter is based around a certain guitar technique / but also a certain aesthetic feel
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Posted: March 28 2014 at 05:21
"Djent" is a neologism coined to describe the music style of Meshuggah and their imitators, at least what they've played after moving away from what can be accurately categorized as falling under the progressive metal umbrella.
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Posted: March 28 2014 at 05:24
Toaster Mantis wrote:
"Djent" is a neologism coined to describe the music style of Meshuggah and their imitators, at least what they've played after moving away from what can be accurately categorized as falling under the progressive metal umbrella.
ha interesting to me now, can you give me an example pretty pls? hugs
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Posted: March 28 2014 at 05:27
I'm not a fan of this style at all, but those seem to be the the style's most popular practitioners.
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Posted: March 28 2014 at 11:13
Kati wrote:
Kurt Cobain was grunge, now what is Djent?
Arguably, "grunge" cannot be applied to Kurt Cobain/Nirvana, or at least, being progenitors of the scene, they often aligned themselves with values exactly opposite to the grunge bands they spawned.
While I like Nirvana, I really don't like most grunge bands, but grunge is much more preferable to Djent.
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Posted: March 28 2014 at 12:12
Djent
Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Posted: March 28 2014 at 13:21
That and Soundgarden, who are now by far my favourite mainstream rock group of the 1990s.
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Posted: February 19 2018 at 05:14
Funny thing: Grunge.
The music industry described it to categorize bands from Seattle, and no band wanted to be a grunge band.
Nirvana was a punkband
Soundgarden was borderline heavy metal/doommetal/stonerrock
Alice in Chains was a heavy form of 80's rock, with a more sombre tone and gloomy lyrics
Pearl Jam were just a hardrock band, with a seventies-feel.
Stone Temple Pilots were somewhat like a cross between Nirvana and Pearl Jam, but they weren't from Seattle.
Those were the 'great' Grunge bands, not alike at all, except that they didn't wear make-up and the lyrics weren's about partying. In the wake of grunge (wich was mainstream and all bands were singend by majors), a lot of 'alternative' rockbands emerged.
Glamrock and hairmetal (stupid terms) went sombre and introspective and released their heaviest albums in this period but failed to attract new fans.
Anyway, Grunge didn't exist. And no Grungeband wanted to be a Grungeband. The same that a lot of progressive rockbands don't want to be a progrockband (Jethro Tull, Threshold etc.).
Djent is called djent, because of the sound it makes, when you palmmute the guitarriffs. A lot of palmuted riffs already existed in Thrash- and Deathmetal. Djent just took it to the extreme. As a genre it's kinda boring, nut as a technique it can be used to great rhythmic effect (Fear Factory, Meshuggah, etc.)
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Posted: February 19 2018 at 06:14
Never heard about Djent, also not the bands that is mentioned as examples of it. How it´s described here I don´t think I have lost anything. Really like to make a poll from the genres I just made myself, but not of course make it because said it here.
I disagree about that Grunge didn´t exist, at least it was a last great youth movement (I was a part of it).
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Posted: February 19 2018 at 06:19
And yes, I liked and still like Nirvana, Hole and Mudhoney. Even saw Nirvana live 1992. Sonic Youth is one of my big passions, but they existed long before grunge. I think they were called godfathers of Grunge (or was it Neil Young?)
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