Djent is a style of
heavy metal music that developed as a spinoff of traditional
progressive metal. The word "djent" is an
onomatopoeia for the distinctive high-
gain, distorted
palm-muted, low pitch guitar sound most notably employed by bands like
Meshuggah and
Sikth. Typically, the word is used to refer to music that makes use of this sound, to the sound itself, or to the scene that revolves around it.