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August 31, 2014
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In order of release date, a list of what are in my opinion, the best Djent related albums. (I say 'djent related', because in many cases it is not their primary genre).
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Meshuggah - Nothing
2002 (Math/Technical Thrash) Often labelled the first Djent album.
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SikTh - The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild
2003 (Math, Progressive Metalcore) A hidden gem. A more experimental and chaotic predecessor to their widely proclaimed 2006 release.
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Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree
2005 (Math/Technical Thrash) An improvement on the style created in 'Nothing'.
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SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day
2006 (Math, Progressive Metalcore)
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Textures - Drawing Circles
2006 (Progressive/Mathcore/Thrash)
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Fellsilent - The Hidden Words
2008 (Experimental/Math) Upon disbanding, Fellsilent members expanded on their side projects - Tesseract and Monuments.
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After The Burial - Rareform
2008 (Progressive Deathcore/Djent)
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Outcast - Self-Injected Reality
2008 (Progressive Death/Thrash/Math)
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Cloudkicker - The Discovery
2008 (Instrumental Progressive)
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Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders
2009 (Instrumental Progressive/Djent)
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Chimp Spanner - At The Dream's Edge
2009 (Instrumental Progressive/Djent)
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Periphery - Periphery
2010 (Djent/Progressive)
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Gru - Cosmogenesis
2010 (Instrumental Progressive/Djent)
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Radiance (FIN) - The Burning Sun
2010 (Progressive/Math) Side project of Necrophagist guitarist Sami Raatikainen.
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TesseracT - One
2011 (Progressive Math/Djent)
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Vildhjarta - Måsstaden
2011 (Progressive/Djent/Thall)
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Born Of Osiris - The Discovery
2011 (Progressive Deathcore)
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Animals As Leaders - Weightless
2011 (Instrumental Pogressive/Djent)
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Last Chance To Reason - Level 2
2011 (Progressive Metalcore/Math)
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Uneven Structure - Februus
2011 (Djent/Pogressive/Ambient)
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Xerath - II
2011 (Symphonic/Math)
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Ever Forthright - Ever Forthright
2011 (Progressive Deathcore/Math/Jazz) Featuring ex-Periphery vocalist/current Monuments vocalist Chris Barretto.
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Volumes - Via
2011 (Progressive Deathcore/Djent)
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Monuments - Gnosis
2012 (Djent/Progressive)
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Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
2012 (Djent)
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The Safety Fire - Grind The Ocean
2012 (Progressive)
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The Contortionist - Intrinsic
2012 (Progressive Deathcore/Djent)
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Destinos - Fireflies For Fireworks
2012 (Instrumental Djent)
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Hypno5e - Acid Mist Tomorrow
2012 (Experimental Progressive Metalcore)
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Means End - The Didact
2013 (Progressive/Djent) If I could only promote one album on this list, it would be this. These guys deserve a lot more attention.
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Pomegranate Tiger - Entities
2013 (Instrumental Progressive)
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TesseracT - Altered State
2013 (Progressive Math/Djent)
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Anup Sastry - Ghost
2013 (Instrumental Djent)
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Humanities Last Breath Humanities Last Breath - 2013
(Progressive/Djent/Thall) Sometimes referred to as the 'heaviest' band in metal. For fans of Vildhjarta.
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Modern Day Babylon - Travelers
2013 (Instrumental Progressive/Djent)
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David Maxim Micic - Bilo 3.0
2013 (Progressive/Female Vocal) One man band (besides vocals) creating huge waves throughout the djent community. Unique.
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Noise Trail Immersion - Noise Trail Immersion
2014 (Technical Math) Guitars with lots of strings, frequent time signature changes. You know the type.
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qlacs
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qlacs
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You may want to check out Bend The Sky - Origins
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31.08.2014 - 08:58
Lit.
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Yes. This list will come in handy.
Yes.
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mz
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31.08.2014 - 10:06
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Yeah finally a useful list.on djent. Thank you.
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Ilham
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Yeah I needed a list like that. I might have a couple recommendations for you, but this seems to be very selective. Good initiative.
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01.09.2014 - 21:11

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A few things on here I will likely check out (given how I enjoy the ones I recognize)
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26.12.2014 - 02:09

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Just found this list, and you have Uldreth's seal of approval for including Fellsilent (and because, of course, these are in general awesome).
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