r/Djent

Meshuggah would be the easy answer. Maybe something older from Metallica or Slayer?

Waxamilion's guitar cover of Eyes Seeing Eyes by Karmanjakah inspired me and after a couple weeks of learning the drum part and putting together a video I've got a drum cover that also shows some of the 3D stuff I've been messing around with recently.

And also go check out Karmanjakah and their new album Diamond Morning. It's such a unique and beautiful sound.

I LOVE this band so much, I consider Heavener to be one of the best heavy music releases of all time, and Greyview is another masterpiece that only gets overshadowed by Heavener. Heck, literally everything they've released is absolutely top tier.

But the new song mix just KILLS me, the rhythm guitars are almost non-existent, it's almost just drums and leads and the rhythm guitars are almost used like pads or something. Am I the only one? I'm super surprised by not liking it because it was mixed by Buster, who is a master engineer, so it must be an artistic choice, which almost makes it worse for me

Does anyone else feel like the mix isn't as good as it should be?

There are 3 albums that I'm personally torn between. Karmanjakah's Diamond Morning is an artistic masterpiece that clearly shows a lot of effort was put in to carefully craft the narrative and overall soundscape of the album. Above, Below's I Guess it Was Nowhere shows a real amount of variance and experiments with different aspects equally of Djent, Progressive Metal, and Metalcore without falling victim to common tropes from any of its influences. Erra's Silence Outlives the Earth is a further refining of their sound and also shows that they can still push themselves outside of their wheelhouse of grooves and catchy choruses to write creative and heavy songs with their 3-act finale on the album.