In the spring of 2010, an explosion of chuggy riffs, subsonic booms and futuristic metal sounds carved a corner for itself in metal. It was called djent, so named because of the djent-djent sounds of the guitars, and U.S. outfit Periphery had unwittingly found themselves as its leaders. Since then, the genre has wavered, meandered and often seen others point and laugh at it. Even Periphery themselves have grown out of it, continuing with their progressive metal mantra, and now, over a decade later, they’re a GRAMMY-nominated band, who have just released the fifth instalment in their catalogue, Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre. Instantly, that title alone has turned heads. The Wikipedia page for the album even classifies the genre of it as, er, djent. To some this ...
