This is a progressive death metal band like Cynic, Hieronymus Bosch or Serdce. Is there another reason they are blacklisted?

Blacklisted in 2014 for being more prog/djent than metal. Have they release anything new since then?

Hey KJ, here their last album released in 2017:
https://exist.bandcamp.com/album/so-true-so-bound

I am bumping this from the third page.

The 2017 album sounds like it might be acceptable, whitelisted.

This band was whitelisted after I created a post about them a few weeks ago, but you say now that they are djent? Did you listed to their newest album? While I consider all their material to be prog death, "So True, So Bound" is definitely more "metal" in many ways. Sure, djent may be present in the mix, but of every person I know who likes this band, no one calls them "djent." Everyone knows they are prog death because that is what they play. Please offer me your take on the band's sound, as I am definitely curious as to what it is.

https://exist.bandcamp.com/album/so-true-so-bound

The band was assessed again based on "So True, So Bound" by no less than six mods. It has been decided that they weren't metal enough.

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The sample song on their upcoming album has to qualify. Don't even hear any Djent in this song, and it's more in line with typical prog/death:

https://exist.bandcamp.com/

Not that musicians make too much of a difference in this determination, but Hannes Grossman drumming with them adds some legitimacy in my eyes.

Maybe, but we don't re-visit bands based on upcoming albums. Wait for it to release, then come back.

Here is their newest album. Certainly seems more like harsh progressive metal than djent. Why keep it blacklisted?

https://exist.bandcamp.com/album/egoiista

Because you are the first to ask for a re-evaluation after the new album was released.

This sounds pretty much like the last album.
It's constantly flactuating between modern prog metal, djenty guitar wankering and soft interlude and build-up stuff, non of which seem to outweight the other in any way.
Doesn't seem predominantly metal, so the blacklist stays.

I'm not sure why this band is blacklisted. Their newest album is progressive death metal similar to Cynic or newer Death. There is no djent in their newest album and it is comprised of primarily metal riffs (and it is very riffy), since this site requires at least one true metal album this band needs to be added.

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Also see above for our decision on that album.

So has any decision been made based on the new album Egoiista? I'm not sure how anyone could say it's not progressive death metal, but then I'm not sure how anyone could say So True, So Bound isn't metal. Regardless I await your decision.

Please, check this album, is more metal:
https://exist.bandcamp.com/album/hijack ... -zeitgeist

Thanks

The ban on Exist is a bit absurd. There is modern deathcore, in addition to djent, on the archive, things seemingly frowned upon. Exist is progressive death metal at their core, something seemingly not frowned upon.