List of djent bands

This article is a list of notable bands and musical artists described as playing djent. Djent (/dʒɛnt/) is a subgenre of progressive metal,^[1][2] distinguished by a high-gain, distorted, palm-muted, low-pitch guitar sound. The name "djent" is an onomatopoeia of this sound.

Artists

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Band	Origin	Years active	References
After the Burial	United States	2004–present	[3]
The Afterimage	Canada	2012–2018	[4]
A Life Once Lost	United States	1999–2013	[5][6]
Animals as Leaders	United States	2007–present	[2][3]
Bad Wolves	United States	2017–present	[7]
Born of Osiris	United States	2003–present	[3]
Circle of Contempt	Finland	2006–present	[8]
The Contortionist	United States	2007–present	[9]
Cloudkicker	United States	2005–present	[10][11]
Currents	United States	2011–present	[12]
DVSR	Australia	2013–present	[13]
Erra	United States	2009–present	[14]
Fellsilent	United Kingdom	2003–2010	[15]
Forevermore	United States	2009–present	[16]
Hacktivist	United Kingdom	2011–present	[17][18]
Intervals	Canada	2011–present	[19]
Invent Animate	United States	2011–present	[20]
Jinjer	Ukraine	2008–present	[21]
The Korea	Russia	2003–present	[22]
Meshuggah	Sweden	1987–present	[3]
Monuments	United Kingdom	2007–present	[15]
Northlane	Australia	2009–present	[23]
Novelists	France	2013–present	[24]
Periphery	United States	2005–present	[2][25]
Polyphia	United States	2010–present	[3]
Reflections	United States	2010–present	[26]
Rivers of Nihil (early)	United States	2009–present	[2][27]
Scale the Summit	United States	2004–present	[3]
Skyharbor	India	2010–present	[28]
Sirens	United States	2011–present	[29]
Spiritbox	Canada	2016–present	[30]
Steve Terreberry	Canada	2008–present	[31]
Structures	Canada	2009–present	[32]
Takatak	Pakistan	2009–present	[33]
Tesseract	United Kingdom	2007–present	[34][35][36]
Textures	Netherlands	2001–2017	[37]
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza (later)	United States	2004–2012	[38]
Uneven Structure	France	2008–present	[39]
Veil of Maya	United States	2004–present	[3]
Vildhjarta	Sweden	2005–present	[3]
Vola	Denmark	2006–present	[3]
Volumes	United States	2009–present	[3]
Within the Ruins	United States	2003–present	[3]
Xerath	United Kingdom	2007–present	[3]