Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of quality new music. But while some of our Editors and Contributors sit down gleefully each week to dive into this newly stocked treasure…
Somewhere around the end of the noughties and the beginning of whatever the hell we’re going to call this decade retrospectively, something remarkable happened in the UK metal scene. Inspired by the likes of Meshuggah and Sikth, a whole army of fresh and exciting progressive metal bands were practically falling out…
There comes a time in the life of a reviewer where he finds himself faced with a unique conundrum: reviewing an album by a band that means something to him. Such is the case with this reviewer and TesseracT. Both previous albums hold special places in his heart. The first, One, a trend setting…
TesseracT are ready to drop their third full-length and second album with debut vocalist Daniel Tompkins. Slated for a September 18th, 2015 release via Kscope, the ambient progressive/djent band are bringing you the very first taste of the record via a short teaser, which can be found below. From what…
With Daniel Tompkins recently rejoining the ranks of the UK’s djent proliferators, TesseracT are now on the verge of releasing the teased live album we heard rumblings about late last year. Titled Scala/Odyssey, the live CD/DVD combo doesn’t have a lot of information, but we do know it is “coming…
For their first full studio release, Skyharbor’s two-disc Blinding White Noise created a sonic shockwave that reverberated around the world receiving plaudits at every turn. They made enough of an impact to have their second funded by their fans so they really must have felt the pressure when constructing it.…
Piano, one of the many brilliant acts fronted by (former former) Tesseract vocalist Daniel Tompkins, are finally back from obscurity! Melding uplifting and haunting melodies with progressive musicianship, the Japan-based act are readying their new album Salvage Architecture. The group have prepared a lyric video for the album’s first single…
Alright, listen up. Apparently there’s some mass confusion about acoustic versions among artists, why you do them, and, more importantly, why you’re doing them badly. So badly, in fact, that you’re straight up ruining your own song, both in acoustic and in demeaning the original version by proxy. You need…
Daniel Tompkins shows us that there Ain’t Nobody who can cover a song like he can.
So not only did we get to hear Elliot Coleman’s take on April this week, but we also got this awesome cover by a duo that goes by the moniker Shadowboxer. While it doesn’t hit quite as hard as the original it is really interesting to see how the song…
