Nowdays it is a actual genre as there are full albums without any metal reference on their songs and they dive deep into those odd time signatures, crunchy sound that makes variations of one and two notes and the rest are just sound effects. Messuggah, After the Burial and Periphery are not the best example of this genre as they share more elements with deathcore, death metal and Metalcore but there are other bands who stay away from the metal elements and they use most of djent sounds with a rock music base or even an acoustic guitar to do melody over djent driven sounds.
Is like all gen