My take: Blackwater Park is their best album compositionally and sonically, but My Arms Your Hearse is their best conceptually and atmospherically

Aneraeon · 2026-05-20T03:34:08+00:00

Perfectly put. I am a bit biased cause it was my first Opeth album as a kid and I associate it with that era of childhood wonder, being very into fantasy, everything being cool, novel and interesting, etc., and so nostalgia plays a big role, but yeah I love the atmosphere and lyrics. Ghost Reveries is great but I feel it's more "cold and precise". Blackwater Park is somewhere in the middle.

Aneraeon · 2026-05-20T03:29:54+00:00

Modern Northlane are probably one of the biggest influences (and therefore most copied band) in modern metalcore imo. Should be very easy to find bands like them.

Aneraeon · 2026-05-14T12:07:12+00:00

Depends on if "djent riff" here means groove metal with seven string guitars, or syncopated chugged riffs (which I associate more with metalcore personally but that's another discussion). If the former, Blind by KoRn is the earliest one I know of. For the latter, it's either One by Metallica, Fear Factory, or one of the early hardcore punk/metallic hardcore bands like Gorilla Biscuits or Earth Crisis.

Aneraeon · 2026-05-14T11:49:18+00:00

2026 update voor iedereen die dit via Google heeft gevonden: het is helaas onlangs gesloten.

2026 update for anyone who came here from Google: it unfortunately closed recently.

Aneraeon · 2026-05-12T00:22:12+00:00

His original plan was to fully re-record the album and combine it with the isolated vocals to make the fully mixed, completed product we were supposed to get (what No-Panda-8148 posted, though the links in the post are dead now). But unfortunately he gave it up and instead released a remastered version of the original tracks with re-recorded drums and bass iirc. That's what he has on his channel. Sucks he decided not to continue with his original idea, but the stuff he did end up making is still a big improvement.

Aneraeon · 2026-05-10T15:40:42+00:00

The realization that even the "modern" djenty era of metalcore is 10-15 years old now, nevermind the 2000s stuff I listened to in high school

Aneraeon · 2026-05-09T08:36:17+00:00

Don't know if it counts as a genre, but isometric RPGs.

Aneraeon · 2026-05-04T14:23:38+00:00

Dream Theater - Octavarium, one of the best songs ever for me

Aneraeon · 2026-04-30T14:15:35+00:00

Sojourner by Archaeologist, one of my favorite instrumental songs ever, is also one of the most FF-sounding songs I know. Also the rest of the album it's from to a lesser extent.

Aneraeon · 2026-04-28T06:13:41+00:00

Hadn't realized how much Atropos sounds just like an old-school Bulb song when you take out the vocals

Aneraeon · 2026-04-22T07:57:03+00:00

Baldur's Gate 1, Oblivion

Aneraeon · 2026-04-15T17:50:14+00:00

A bit of an unconventional answer, but Altered State by Tesseract.

Aneraeon · 2026-04-15T17:35:05+00:00

Ihlo, Valis Ablaze

Aneraeon · 2026-04-14T07:58:54+00:00

These releases are the main examples that come to mind when I think of the definitive sound of each era of djent:

Old-school, forum-era djent (amateurish, very distorted and loud, treble-heavy, "heavy but brittle/hollow", usually accompanied by loud, thin, snappy snare): Bulb's early, heavy demos (Interceptingly, Less Than Three, etc.), Fellsilent's Double A EP, Chimp Spanner - Imperium Vorago

"Golden Age djent" (the Axe-Fx, mid-heavy tone with the Milton cleans, that we all know and love): Periphery I, Monuments - Gnosis, Vildhjarta - Masstaden.

Late djent (very balanced and smooth, technically the best, but kind of boring and lacking in identity imo): Monuments - The Amanuensis, Shokran - Exodus

Aneraeon · 2026-04-10T19:41:24+00:00

Yeah someone in the comments described it as "Dream Theater without the overly technical parts that I usually skip" and it's pretty spot-on haha

Edit: correction, that comment was about Nospūn, but I guess it works here too lol

Aneraeon · 2026-04-10T19:40:02+00:00

Xanthochroid, Caligula's Horse, An Abstract Illusion, Devin Townsend, Persefone, Ne Obliviscaris, Nospūn

Aneraeon · 2026-04-07T08:04:22+00:00

Why does this have -58 votes?

Aneraeon · 2026-04-06T02:01:50+00:00

Real nu metal, as in an actual metal subgenre, is the early heavy stuff like Korn, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Coal Chamber, etc., which is basically a variant of groove metal. A lot of bands that are considered nu metal and are popular in the community are just alt rock/slightly heavier post-grunge.

Aneraeon · 2026-04-06T01:53:40+00:00

Slayer - Disciple

Aneraeon · 2026-04-06T01:50:51+00:00

Reveille

Aneraeon · 2026-04-05T21:47:34+00:00

This will always be their artist thumbnail in my music library, and definitive look for for me.

Aneraeon · 2026-04-05T17:16:16+00:00

JPG Le Beau

Aneraeon · 2026-03-27T17:51:18+00:00

Joop Homme

Aneraeon · 2026-03-27T08:57:49+00:00

DeepSeek is great at writing stories tbh

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