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Haunted Shores began as a full band project led by guitarist Mark Holcomb before evolving into a studio collaboration between Holcomb and Periphery co-founder Misha Mansoor following both joining that band. The Washington, DC-rooted djent project released a self-titled debut in 2011, the Viscera EP in 2015, and the second full-length Void in 2022, with guest vocalists including Spencer Sotelo and Dan Tompkins filling vocal duties across the recordings. The project operates as a vehicle for progressive metal experimentation outside the demands of Periphery's touring schedule.
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Kentucky's Shitkluster push brutal death metal and grindcore through the angular filter of djent, arriving at a dissonant, technically precise kind of brutality that refuses to sit still — formed in 2015 and perpetually refusing to be categorized.
Charlottesville, Virginia's Silas Fernandes is a progressive metal and shred project fusing classical composition techniques with djent's polyrhythmic guitar approach, resulting in technically dense instrumental music that emphasizes melodic precision since 2018.
Portland, Oregon act formed in 2012 that merges the mechanical rhythmic precision of djent with the crushing weight of deathcore and metalcore, built around polyrhythmic chugging and technical breakdowns. The "Sisyphean" in their name feels earned — their music is dense, cyclical, and relentlessly uncompromising.
Soul Deprived is a melodic death metal and djent band formed in 2022, fusing the Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal tradition with the rhythmic complexity and polyrhythmic textures of djent.
Stellar Circuits formed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 2015, combining progressive metal complexity with the rhythmic precision of djent and the melodic accessibility of alternative metal. The band's debut EP (2015) was followed by the full-length Ways We Haunt (2018) and Sight to Sound on Nuclear Blast Records, the latter expanding the band's reach significantly within the progressive metal community. Their album Phantom : : Phoenix continued the pattern of groove-forward progressive metal with clean vocals and layered dynamics. Stellar Circuits represent one of the more technically accomplished acts to emerge from the American Southeast's progressive metal underground.
Italian avant-garde metal act SYK formed in 2013 when guitarist Stefano Ferrian and Federico De Bernardi di Valserra recruited vocalist Dalila Kayros following the dissolution of their previous project. Their debut Atoma (2014) attracted Philip H. Anselmo, who signed them to Housecore Records and produced their second album I-Optikon (2016); subsequent releases Pyramiden (2022) and eartHFlesh, on Season of Mist, expanded the band's eclectic fusion of djent, progressive metal, death metal, and extreme experimentation. Kayros' harsh female vocals are central to the band's identity.
Formed in Milton Keynes, England in 2003 by guitarist Acle Kahney, TesseracT are widely credited as one of the pioneering bands of the djent movement, characterized by polyrhythmic guitar work, odd time signatures, and expansive atmospheric layering. Their debut One (2011) established the template, and they have since released five studio albums through Nuclear Blast, most recently War of Being (2023), cycling through several vocalists before settling on the returning Daniel Tompkins. They remain one of progressive metal's most critically respected contemporary acts.
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