r/Djent

So many modern metal bands rely on plugins and mix the fuck out of their guitars. Everyone's so OCD about getting the perfect sound. Whatever happened to a little mud? A little clipping? A little electrical interference that makes you wonder if your house is up to code? Bring back the danger XD

Sounds fine enough for low-tuned whammy nonsense, but you need some actual riffs and erm notes in between the shenanigans or it just sounds like a five-year-old having a tantrum.

Nobody has their own tone anymore. Same amps, same pedals, same pickups, same tunings, same plugins, same seven-string guitar with the same fucking string gauge. And then they wonder why people are getting bored. Apparently I'm the fucking idiot because I want 300 bands to sound different 😂

I got into metal in 2009–2013, back when I was still a basic bitch rock/blues guy, and even then I could tell the difference between a riff and a minor inconvenience happening to a washing machine.

Now it's just chug chug chug squeal dissonant chord pinch harmonic chug chug chug. The pinches and dissonant chords used to be the fills. Now they automate a wah and an octaver for a one-note fill without even using their fucking foot. Where's the craftsmanship? Where's the man physically stomping on a pedal at precisely the wrong moment?

Give me more real music. More human music. More bands with character. Like Thy Art Is Murder. Beyond Creation. Conquering Dystopia. Within the Ruins. Mick Gordon. Bloodshot Dawn. Currents. Invent Animate. Shokran. Rings of Saturn. Arch Echo. Vitriol.

You know, bands that sound completely different from each other.

Maybe try something different instead of spamming cheesy thall riffs. How did we evolve from needlessly complex and technical djent-style guitar playing to this one-note, boring nonsense?

Honestly, man, I wish djent and thall would just die already. Melodic metalcore was a mistake.

Anyway, djentslop hell yeah.

Hello everyone,

I was thinking about getting a new drum plugin around christmas and wanted to ask for a little bit of guidance.

Basically what I want is something that is pretty versatile but mainly useable for Djent. Right now I own Trivium Drums but those kinda don't do the job. It would be pretty nice if it sounds quite good out of the box, and it would be cool if it doesn't have the GGD MM2 price tag.

What I've been looking at:

- RS Drums Monarch or Prog Prodigy

- GGD The Downbeat

- Odeholm Drums

Thanks!

In the song Sonia exactly 3:00 minutes in there is this guitar effect that's like a phaser or flanger on the open not that creates almost like a sweep but its not stereo obviously they also do it on the song Loyola at 2:38 seconds in and on the song hestehov 40 seconds in what is that effect and what can I buy to do that like on command or something

Hi all, I am having a lot of trouble making my ghost notes sound good. I'm trying to learn the 1st verse riff in Wormholes by Volumes for example, and they sound like a complete mess even though I'm playing the rhythm correctly 😭 I can't find any info online about this specific issue. I'm holding my left hand over the strings, but here are my questions:

1. Sometimes I get harmonics depending on where on the fretboard I hold down, is there a specific harmonic I want? If not, is there a "best" place to hold my hand on the fretboard to just get a nice tight chk sound?

2. Do I strike multiple strings at once, or just one string? If just one, should it be on the fret of the note I just played?

3. Is the tone an issue? I imagine less gain helps

Thanks so much!