swap_horiz Periphery - Periphery III: Select Difficulty Alternatives

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Meshuggah - obZen

Meshuggah’s obZen (2008) is a progressive metal album renowned for its intensely intricate rhythmic structures. The albu...

Heavy Djent 00S Polyrhythmic

9.0 Excellent

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Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Steven Wilson’s *Hand. Cannot. Erase.* is a complex progressive metal album built around the unsettling true story of Jo...

Concept Album Melodic 10S Prog Metal

8.9 Great

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Leprous - The Congregation

Leprous' 2015 fourth studio album, produced by David Castillo, which brought the Norwegian band significant internationa...

Heavy Melodic 10S Prog Metal

8.6 Great

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TesseracT - Altered State

Altered State (2013) is TesseracT's second album, featuring replacement vocalist Ashe O'Hara and pursuing a more atmosph...

Atmospheric Melodic Djent 10S

8.4 Great

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Periphery - Juggernaut: Omega

Juggernaut: Omega (2015) is the concluding half of Periphery's double concept album, released simultaneously with Alpha...

Heavy Concept Album Djent 10S

8.3 Great

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Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha

Juggernaut: Alpha (2015) is the first half of Periphery's double concept album, presenting a science fiction narrative a...

Concept Album Melodic Djent 10S

8.2 Great

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TesseracT - One

One (2011) is the debut album by British progressive metal band TesseracT, an influential early entry in the djent movem...

Atmospheric Melodic Djent 10S

8.2 Great

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Meshuggah - Koloss

Koloss (2012) is Meshuggah's seventh studio album, noted for a relatively simplified rhythmic approach compared to prede...

Heavy Groove Djent 10S

8.1 Great

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TesseracT - Polaris

Polaris (2015) is TesseracT's third album, marking the return of original vocalist Daniel Tompkins and blending djent rh...

Atmospheric Melodic Djent 10S

8.0 Great

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TesseracT - War of Being

War of Being (2023) is TesseracT's fifth studio album, widely regarded as the band's heaviest and most sonically ambitio...

Heavy Melodic Djent 20S

8.0 Great

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Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal

Periphery II: This Time It's Personal (2012) is the second Periphery album, expanding the band's djent approach with mor...

Technical Melodic Djent 10S

7.8 Good

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TesseracT - Sonder

Sonder (2018) is TesseracT's fourth album with vocalist Daniel Tompkins, exploring themes of human interconnectedness th...

Atmospheric Melodic Djent 10S

7.8 Good

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Periphery - Periphery

Periphery (2010) is the debut studio album by Washington D.C.-based band Periphery, founded by guitarist Misha Mansoor a...

Modern Melodic Djent 10S

7.7 Good

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Periphery - Periphery IV: Hail Stan

Periphery IV: Hail Stan (2019) is a Periphery album that earned the band a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for t...

Experimental Melodic Djent 10S

7.7 Good

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Riverside - Shrine of New Generation Slaves

Riverside's 2013 fifth studio album, tackling consumer society and social conformity with a harder riff-driven approach...

Heavy Melodic Riverside 10S

7.7 Good

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Dream Theater - Distance Over Time

Dream Theater's 2019 fourteenth studio album Distance Over Time was recorded at a rented house in upstate New York to en...

Heavy Melodic 10S Prog Metal

7.5 Good

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Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre

Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre (2023) is Periphery's sixth studio album, whose title directly addresses the ongoing d...

Heavy Melodic Djent 20S

7.5 Good

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Symphony X - Underworld

Underworld (2015) is Symphony X's ninth studio album, incorporating heavier riffing alongside the band's established neo...

Heavy Neoclassical Melodic 10S

7.4 Good

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Opeth - Sorceress

Opeth's 2016 twelfth studio album Sorceress was their first release on Nuclear Blast Records, blending progressive rock,...

Heavy Melodic Prog Rock 10S

7.2 Good

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Dream Theater - Dream Theater

Dream Theater's 2013 self-titled twelfth studio album was the first in which drummer Mike Mangini participated fully in...

Heavy Melodic 10S Prog Metal

7.1 Good