Some bands aforementioned do display the characteristics of the style more prominently than the others. Now, don’t sit there and suck your teeth at me with this, “he said THAT was Djent but not ‘insert random band here?!” bullshit. The groups that get slapped with this label/genre consist of Born of Osiris, Animals as Leaders, Periphery, Meshuggah, Textures, Sikth, Vildjharta, and Monuments just to name a few. What IS Djent though? Who belongs in it? Who DOESN’T? In my opinion and for the sake of this review let’s just call it a sound the guitar makes when being palm-muted a certain way and with a certain type of production. You have artists claiming, and rejecting it like it’s this… THING that, to some degree, has been sensationalized among the members of the Metal community. I definitely think using the term has its negative connotations, BUT not to discredit the musicians that get slapped with the label. When you think about it you might as well put it next to that mental image of some dude with a foot-long beard behind a computer screen typing THALL a million times over on a Progressive Metal forum. She’s letting us inside her world, and the story she tells is crystal clear.That one word. She isn’t hiding behind her baby-pink prosthetics. The LP ends with “Womb,” a metaphor for her own musical rebirth and that of her character’s, before the album loops back to repeat a phrase we heard at its start: “Life is death is life is death.” With Portals, Martinez delivers an effortlessly inventive, mature record that reintroduces her as an artist unafraid to start from scratch and tackle complex, difficult ideas. And on the standout “Evil,” she elevates a searing synth-rock track with scathing lyrics: “Hope you never cope, hope you slip on soap/Crack your head like an egg, wanna see the yolk.” Ouch. On “Moon Cycle,” she sings jarringly crude lyrics about a man who demands sex with a woman who’s having her period (“Blood swimming turned him amphibious”), while lacing her lyrics with direct references to Tree’s music. Part of the “past life regression” she promised with the LP arrives in songs like “Nymphology,” “Moon Cycle,” and “Evil,” which brazenly provide a new perspective on her past experience, specifically her relationship with alt-rocker Oliver Tree, who has referenced her in lyrics and has used an actress who looked like Martinez in a music video to mock her. ![]() “All of them disguised with earthly themes for double/triple meaning, to create a frequency for humans to relate to while still here on Earth.” When it comes to making ambitious concept records, there aren’t many artists in her class. “All of the songs on this album are based on past-life-regression therapy books I’ve been reading for a few years now,” she said of the record. Musically, Martinez strays from the alt-pop sounds of her past to explore pop-rock songwriting, driving drum beats, and voice filters. And she’s using that character to deliver her most introspective lyrics and sounds that move outside her sonic comfort zone. She has found a new muse: a pink-skinned, four-eyed fairy creature that’s stuck between Earth and the afterlife. The Waterproof Shower Speaker With 14,000 Five-Star Reviews Is Discounted to $15 Melanie Martinez Transforms Into a Pink Creature for New Album 'Portals' ![]() Now, with her new album Portals, Martinez is “back from the dead.” It was a final goodbye to her beloved Lolita-like character. This February, Martinez got us ready for her next chapter by sharing a 30-second visual that showed a close-up of the words “RIP Cry Baby” etched into a giant mushroom surrounded by candles at a gravesite. Martinez has come a long way from being the hopeful teenager who made Christina Aguilera’s eyes roll when she competed on The Voice. Martinez debuted with her fantastic 2015 LP Cry Baby, a concept album about a young girl who gets kidnapped and eventually kills her captor that’s full of sparkling, self-aware tunes like “Pacify Her” and “Dollhouse.” She followed it with 2019’s K-12, as well as a feature film of the same name, building a devoted cult following in the process. ![]() Singer, songwriter, and producer Melanie Martinez makes sleek, dark pop with a satiric edge and real emotional bite. Melanie-Martinez - Credit: Jimmy Fontaine*
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