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If you want Animals As Leaders with vocals, try Periphery. They're more djent, so it's not the exact same. Very good, and very progressive. I actually liked Periphery more before the vocalist came onboard buy, meh.

Misha Mansoor (aka Bulb) from Periphery actually helped Tosin Abasi write some of the drum tracks and few other things on the first Animals As Leaders album.
Ive heard them before and did not know it...but i remember them as soon as i heard them...epic band...and whats the djent stuff?
Djent is a very loosely described genre of metal that holds a common theme of using 8-string guitars and bass and the signature sounds created by those instruments when the strings are hit a certain way followed up by a quick mute.

It literally makes a "djent" sound. As in, "djent....djentdjent...djent....djentdjent...djentdjentdjent..."


Meshuggah is credited with creating the sound, and considered the grandfather of the genre, but I don't know how fair that is. Most of the bands in this "genre" are really creative and that "djent" aspect is just one aspect of their song structures.

Here's a random sampling of some bands using that "djent" sound.

Here's the urban-dictionary take on it. Seems pretty accurate. It's more a sound than a genre. Most djent bands are really just heavier progressive metal.