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I think that might be because Meshuggah are the most obvious and direct influence on a lot of the newer "Djent" bands like Periphery and Tesseract that are popu

I think that might be because Meshuggah are the most obvious and direct influence on a lot of the newer "Djent" bands like Periphery and Tesseract that are popular with younger fans. What's interesting to me about those bands is that they took some of the elements of Meshuggah's sound - the complex time and extended range instruments - but usually end up with something that's not as heavy or extreme, often having very melodic sections and lots of clean singing. For a long time it seemed the direction was a bit one way - bands tending to get more extreme - and while that's still the case it's maybe going the other way at the same time.

algorithmsRcool 11y ago
Yes there has definitely been a lot of experimentation in the last decade with blending very technical death metal (following Meshuggah's lead) with elements of jazz and melodic elements from prog rock and metal. Gojira, for example has been carrying the Meshuggah sound forward while Between the Buried and Me, who was born from very technical and chaotic metal, almost devoid of groove, to extremely proggy and theatrical like Dream Theater. Mastodon moved closer to rock from technical death metal and Opeth once a paragon of death metal, doesn't even use death vocals any more. For me at least it has been very interesting to see the exchange of ideas.