What Genre should be Bulb/Periphery/Fellsilent/Tesseract named under?

[Imdeathcore]

Technical/progresive Mathcore

 

[Wolfster]

Call them 'meshuggah influenced metal'.

In fact Meshuggah should just have their own sub-genre.

 

[Cadavuh]

hell naw

 

[lucasreis]

Absolutelyfuckintasticmetal!

 

[_detox]

Call them 'meshuggah influenced metal'.

In fact Meshuggah should just have their own sub-genre.

It's funny because the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands thing for Warped Tour had "Meshuggah Metal" as a subgenre amongst all the other types.

 

[eegor]

Djent metal

This is usually what I call it.

 

[Swippity Swappity]

This is usually what I call it.

Ditto. Always called it Djent Metal.

 

[bulb]

hardcore porn

 

[Konfyouzd]

ok i was always curious about the whole djent thing... the threads that i've found about it haven't really given me a good answer so i figured i'd just ask now... is djent an actual genre or is it just onomatopoeia? i thought it was just used to describe the sound made when u chug (for lack of a better word) on the lower strings and could thus potentially be used to describe any band, genre, song, what-have-you that utilized that sound...

am i way off?

 

[eegor]

It was originally used as an onomatopoeia for a palm-muted 4-note power chord iirc, but its meaning is starting to be applied to the whole neo-Meshuggah type playing. It's not a genre, but a playing technique.

 

[Konfyouzd]

ahh ok gotcha...

 

[S-O]

Oh. Dear. God.

I like this.

Wow.

on another note, I'd label it as djentcore, or bulbcore,

No wait... For something this awesome, it must be a palindrome:

Erocore

Which is nice, because it looks like a portmanteau of Erotic and hardcore.

 

[Konfyouzd]

niiiiice

 

[ridealot100]

melotech metal

 

[hypermagic]

MILOTIC METAL

 

[Cadavuh]

COOLEST. POKEMON. EVAR.

 

[ArtDecade]

COOLEST. POKEMON. EVAR.

Well, that is officially the quote that I never expected to see on this board.

 

[Cadavuh]

Well its name IS Milotic!

 

[Sang-Drax]

I've just listened to Tesseract. Awesome band! Very atmospheric and melodic - which is precisely I dig Periphery so much in lieu of Meshuggah and Sikth.

 

[MF_Kitten]

i just have to re-state my opinion about using "djent" as a genre-description. many of the bands that are cast under that genre don´t even djent. ever. or maybe don´t even have a djent-ish kind of tone at all. lots of metal would be called "chug-metal" if we all used this logic

i think it´s just progressive metal (except not the medieval fairytales kind ), or maybe just groove-ish metal with nice melodic content.

i think the only correct genre is "metal", and then you can put some explanatory words in front or behind it so your friends know what you´re on about