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Genre
djent
Parent Genre: metal

Djent is a subgenre of progressive metal that is characterized by heavily distorted and palm-muted guitar riffs, syncopated rhythms, and complex time signatures. The genre often features a focus on technicality and precision, with intricate guitar work and polyrhythmic drumming. Djent bands often incorporate electronic elements and ambient textures into their music, creating a unique and futuristic sound. The genre has gained popularity in recent years, with bands like Periphery, Meshuggah, and Northlane leading the way.


Top artists of djent genre

Periphery
Veil Of Maya
Meshuggah
Invent Animate
Northlane
Plini
ERRA
The Acacia Strain
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List of djent artists

Here is a list of djent artists on Spotify, ranked based on popularity, who exemplifies the djent genre. You can find out what djent genre sounds like where you can preview artists or sort them the way you want, just click the headers to sort.

#namePopularity instrumentalnessdanceabilityenergyacousticnessHappinesstempofollowers
1
Periphery
56 0 40 94 0 20 125 453719
2
Veil Of Maya
55 14 44 94 0 29 139 266699
3
Meshuggah
55 53 36 94 0 26 125 615260
4
Invent Animate
52 21 43 94 2 17 128 97751
5
Northlane
52 24 41 89 2 31 130 308861
6
Plini
51 82 49 67 15 37 124 281799
7
ERRA
51 15 44 97 0 30 131 225662
8
The Acacia Strain
51 10 35 93 1 18 124 176715
9
Animals As Leaders
50 82 38 86 4 27 136 484582
10
After The Burial
49 17 43 95 0 25 134 276584
11
Volumes
47 26 41 91 3 33 115 167991
12
Novelists FR
47 2 41 92 0 25 132 81237
13
Born Of Osiris
47 2 41 96 0 28 145 302371
14
The Ocean
46 26 42 76 10 22 128 118613
15
Monuments
46 4 44 96 0 29 117 143436
16
Intervals
46 72 40 92 0 43 138 176639
17
Berried Alive
45 18 46 81 16 35 113 71780
18
TesseracT
45 20 40 76 6 23 126 280558
19
Between The Buried And Me
44 14 31 83 7 26 124 256099
20
Protest The Hero
43 15 34 95 0 29 132 192670
21
Jason Richardson
43 87 43 97 0 23 111 61369
22
Unprocessed
43 35 54 77 15 27 121 80866
23
VOLA
42 14 41 70 23 26 114 72800
24
Andromida
42 89 44 96 0 31 133 46061
25
The Contortionist
41 21 36 74 11 22 133 166381
26
Time, The Valuator
40 1 39 88 0 17 124 37553
27
Vildhjarta
39 39 27 91 1 17 126 99075
28
Their Dogs Were Astronauts
39 73 51 76 2 45 138 40713
29
Rivers of Nihil
39 60 41 86 2 14 126 101518
30
Humanity's Last Breath
39 49 28 96 0 15 129 64991
31
Caligula's Horse
39 8 44 72 12 29 128 81694
32
The Algorithm
38 76 47 89 4 31 126 94908
33
Within The Ruins
38 30 42 98 0 20 128 128441
34
Jakub Zytecki
38 61 48 76 6 28 124 48960
35
Oceano
38 30 38 98 0 11 127 158578
36
I Built the Sky
38 91 37 73 22 24 122 48154
37
David Maxim Micic
38 70 38 69 13 27 119 75890
38
Persefone
38 34 30 85 6 15 136 55394
39
Angel Vivaldi
37 87 35 96 0 27 138 80238
40
Owane
37 80 48 65 2 33 142 37873
41
Good Tiger
37 4 40 85 7 30 135 54325
42
Cloudkicker
37 83 39 56 40 29 122 70235
43
The Faceless
37 24 36 93 1 18 129 130846
44
Walking Across Jupiter
36 77 47 90 0 32 131 18304
45
The Omnific
36 85 47 89 5 47 139 43779
46
Cynic
36 30 35 84 7 21 128 107257
47
Heart Of A Coward
35 2 38 99 0 14 130 56826
48
Textures
35 12 33 91 6 20 126 64953
49
Sithu Aye
35 75 45 85 1 31 129 68362
50
Mestís
35 77 43 67 21 27 115 43111
51
Fallujah
35 61 36 96 0 12 131 76955
52
Shokran
35 46 42 97 0 24 134 59052
53
Misery Signals
34 8 32 89 0 24 148 63511
54
Arch Echo
34 68 47 96 0 39 123 49903
55
Hacktivist
34 7 51 95 1 36 126 54594
56
Car Bomb
34 18 31 91 0 26 99 56713
57
The Afterimage
33 0 39 91 1 30 130 25957
58
Vitalism
33 87 34 94 0 25 136 64556
59
Reflections
33 34 46 91 0 24 121 45854
60
Olly Steele
33 77 46 97 0 22 99 12843
61
Black Crown Initiate
33 38 43 92 0 14 124 47785
62
The Zenith Passage
32 58 51 95 1 22 124 28535
63
Scale The Summit
32 77 47 84 4 44 134 98107
64
Sea in the Sky
31 27 40 92 1 36 125 28707
65
Night Verses
31 48 42 81 6 31 135 46395
66
Alluvial
31 50 40 96 0 20 134 29276
67
Anup Sastry
30 90 35 96 0 36 126 45035
68
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza
30 39 31 98 0 9 126 56715
69
Structures
30 12 38 98 0 26 122 48147
70
Destiny Potato
30 19 53 81 6 36 114 51632
71
The Human Abstract
29 0 42 94 0 24 120 48539
72
SikTh
29 12 41 92 6 35 117 66306
73
Mandroid Echostar
29 3 38 89 4 34 134 21291
74
Slice The Cake
29 25 37 90 0 15 127 24123
75
Bulb
29 77 45 90 1 26 144 19260
76
Skyharbor
29 10 35 84 3 12 131 58996
77
Artificial Language
28 5 43 84 11 28 116 18261
78
Lee McKinney
28 74 65 92 0 21 102 15055
79
The Dali Thundering Concept
28 63 38 92 0 24 132 20461
80
White Moth Black Butterfly
28 29 42 45 62 33 125 17113
81
Haunted Shores
28 81 42 92 0 13 119 33278
82
Intronaut
28 56 33 76 6 23 126 62537
83
Cartoon Theory
28 81 47 93 0 21 93 8774
84
Stephen Taranto
27 81 38 96 0 18 136 11819
85
I The Breather
27 8 43 95 0 25 141 51545
86
Fractalize
27 83 46 93 0 30 145 9865
87
Ghost Iris
27 5 46 96 0 19 123 31446
88
Sentinels
27 33 33 98 0 21 165 17035
89
Modern Day Babylon
27 85 52 89 0 35 123 40277
90
Aviations
27 8 44 92 1 32 118 13417
91
Chimp Spanner
26 78 37 84 0 18 140 31260
92
Kadinja
26 28 42 96 0 27 122 27611
93
Disperse
25 32 43 80 5 30 128 22949
94
Native Construct
25 17 40 76 1 36 118 31399
95
Outrun The Sunlight
25 85 37 82 0 16 121 16565
96
Earthside
25 89 41 91 0 26 104 36904
97
Uneven Structure
25 16 34 90 0 21 136 36802
98
Glass Cloud
25 20 38 97 0 21 143 33219
99
Widek
25 93 33 87 1 20 107 24096
100
Voices From The Fuselage
24 2 38 72 9 23 137 17137
101
Daniel Tompkins
24 7 52 63 12 25 129 11970
102
Merrow
24 74 42 96 0 30 128 17768
103
For Giants
24 85 44 92 0 38 124 18147
104
Returning We Hear the Larks
24 72 44 91 0 20 131 8477
105
The Helix Nebula
24 84 36 94 0 28 127 38821
106
Pomegranate Tiger
24 73 39 75 23 31 100 32317
107
Elitist
24 42 36 98 0 27 128 25608
108
Corelia
23 30 28 92 0 26 136 26940
109
Evan Brewer
23 92 46 53 71 39 157 21337
110
Circle of Contempt
23 27 33 97 0 26 145 14967
111
Fellsilent
23 0 0 0 0 0 0 13314
112
Circles
23 1 44 91 0 30 125 25480
113
Wide Eyes
23 88 40 99 0 37 148 14311
114
Jake Bowen
22 89 52 69 44 38 100 8657
115
Toska
22 84 34 79 0 31 139 34680
116
Valis Ablaze
22 3 45 96 0 29 139 14259
117
T.R.A.M
21 74 36 72 2 16 82 19781
118
Miroist
21 82 26 97 0 14 110 6178
119
Thomas Giles
21 10 40 46 48 11 139 13844
120
V3ctors
20 0 0 0 0 0 0 4125
121
Blotted Science
20 83 39 87 0 52 127 33238
122
Ion Dissonance
20 43 41 97 0 15 111 23797
123
Four Seconds Ago
20 86 48 89 9 19 143 8839
124
Sarah Longfield
20 71 48 86 18 20 133 23378
125
The Northern
20 0 43 97 0 32 142 13605
126
Thessa
19 89 38 90 0 19 124 7895
127
Stoort Neer
19 93 29 94 0 35 137 4727
128
Auras
19 17 43 96 0 29 137 16422
129
Fredrik Thordendal
19 0 0 0 0 0 0 2621
130
The HAARP Machine
19 82 39 91 0 18 162 22878
131
A Life Once Lost
19 16 37 98 0 24 120 17003
132
The Safety Fire
18 2 37 87 4 14 138 26440
133
Distorted Harmony
18 3 35 86 14 31 105 17617
134
Polarization
17 89 41 92 0 28 145 11475
135
Being
17 0 40 96 0 13 160 6760
136
Liquorworks
17 85 41 93 0 26 126 4990
137
Shattered Skies
16 3 48 88 0 31 122 10511
138
Harkla
15 28 42 94 0 37 142 4755
139
Xerath
15 55 26 91 0 14 139 12623
140
Flux Conduct
15 90 33 86 0 14 114 10425
141
Exivious
14 69 43 83 11 15 128 13290
142
Nova Collective
14 84 32 88 0 52 117 15051
143
Nemertines
13 82 51 94 1 23 119 4941
144
Last Chance To Reason
12 38 31 88 0 23 150 8807
145
Lifeforms
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1116
146
Omega Virus
10 89 44 98 0 57 139 5424
147
Ever Forthright
10 0 28 90 0 12 131 10027
148
The Entities
10 93 26 96 0 18 138 3037
149
Breath of Nibiru
10 85 49 97 0 21 143 5076
150
RXYZYXR
9 9 44 97 0 23 107 5660
151
Bulb
9 71 46 62 38 12 127 4713
152
Stealing Axion
8 43 34 98 0 11 140 7446
153
Insense
8 27 36 90 0 12 107 2630
154
Sky Sanctuary
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 5290
155
The Arusha Accord
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 6322
156
Beyond Our Eyes
6 0 0 0 0 0 0 715
157
Sean Hall
6 92 44 99 0 9 130 2966
158
Red Seas Fire
6 0 27 97 0 24 143 5509
159
Means End
6 0 41 96 0 8 121 2782
160
Sequence of Discord
5 92 45 98 1 19 140 3040
161
Roma Ivakov
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1335
162
Synthetic Breed
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2810
163
The Room Colored Charlatan
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3044
164
In Search Of Sight
4 2 32 100 0 22 96 2194
165
Aliases
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 4238
166
No Consequence
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2783
167
Akeldama
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1904
168
Cilice
3 18 52 97 0 12 132 3454
169
Invocation
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1401
170
Proghma-C
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 793
171
Mistaken Element
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 690
172
Scartographer
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1782
173
Tardive Dyskinesia
2 5 23 95 0 32 98 974
174
Nociceptor
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2183
175
Vortice
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 329
176
SEES
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 391
177
Cyclamen
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2747
178
Deely
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 308
179
Encircle
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 170
180
Tandjent
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 274
181
Drewsif Stalin's Musical Endeavors
0 17 45 87 0 16 119 20243
182
SYRANIC
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 783
183
Dan Dankmeyer
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 271