“Djent is really an online phenomenon,” explains Sander Dieleman, webmaster of got-djent.com. “The internet gives young artists a way to easily share their music, and it’s very easy to produce professional-sounding music in your bedroom. If you want to play djent, all you need is a guitar, a computer, a guitar interface and understanding neighbours.”

Heavy metal famously shunned the whole online thing thus making of their refusal to connect a kind of cult. This sub-genre of metal (how many sub-sub forms are there?) has instead grown from a connection with the online. Bedroom forums and amp simulators running on heavy games computers ..

Nice to see the comments in the djent forum though – please to see they are in the mainstream (a Guardian article).