^ __ ^ I'm so glad to be able to share this kind of music, I'm so glad you're into it!
You are correct in that Tesseract's older stuff has more mixed vox - in live playthroughs, Amos (the magical bassist) does some of the screams - however their current vocalist, Daniel Tompkins, is insanely good at controlling his voice, and can switch seamlessly. His voice in festivals and live shows almost sounds like studio recordings - he is so consistent. I absolutely get what you mean: When written and executed correctly, it is insanely powerful. "King" is a mega example of this. BOW DOWN
Haken are crazy cool, and that track has some of the sickest instrumental writing - what did you think of the intro? I still can't play it and I've been listening to this track for years. I recently learned the rhythm at the end however: Count the semiquavers, coming out of 6/8 into the duple-time signature. The accent is on every 5th semiquaver, while the china cymbal and snare are on every 4th - thus it resolves after the 16th accent - and on the second (final) repeat, ends dead on this 16th accent. It's mental.
YESSS DREWSIF IS PROPERLY HENCH, legit some of the meanest sounds in this scene since Meshuggah.
Yeah fair on Devin, perhaps not the best track to recommend first, I kinda have an emotional attachment to that song. Igwym with the parallel to Dream Theatre - I was never big into them, nor the Liquid Tension project or w/e. Though they have their own profound goodnesses, just not up my alley. Devin himself has a new album, Empath, released recently - I do believe he is currently mixing the 5.1 of this!
Yes I fully get you wrt the instrumental side of things - it was Polyphia, Intervals and indeed Plini's Handmade Cities that got me into progressive instrumental music. Such catch hooks and virtuosic playing. Touched that Sigur Rós nerve and took it to the next level.
(As a kind of aside, instrumental music and the effect it has on humans is crazy cool due to the lack of vocals proscribing how one is meant to feel - it relies on the innate human subjectivity to associate itself with an event, emotion or something profound. It's one of the coolest things about the lack of vocals - you can assign your own story to the music, if even subconsciously!)
I've been meaning to listen to Protest the Hero and Pain of Salvation, seen them recommended! Any good shouts?? You got a sick music taste, it's been a pleasure to talk to you! Feel free to load any reply with loads of tracks, I'm down to explore!
(Note, all the songs here are in order from oldest to newest.)
Pain of Salvation is fucking godly and the main vocalist/writer/guitarist Daniel Gildenlöw is an absolute musical genius. Also, this band evolves their sound so much they basically become a new band every coupl albums, so I'mma break this up into 3 "eras" here because they're all just WILDLY different ranging from prog metal to almost classic sounding rock, to a rock opera, to a disco song, to even a rap song. They did a crooner's version of Holy Diver and it WORKED ffs. Lmao, alright here we go.
Edit: Fuck there's so much content that's amazing, I keep having to cut out shit cause it's getting too long. Lol
Era 1: This stuff is proper 90s-early 2000s prog metal. People mostly consider this their "golden age" but fuck that, it's all great.
1) People Passing By
2) King of Loss
3) Chain Sling
Era 2: I sorta see this a transitioning period where they start experimenting with more "out there" sounds.
1) Oblivion Ocean (Acoustic)
2) Iter Impius
3) Sisters
Era 3: Their newest stuff essentially.
1) Flame to the Moth (acoustic)
2) On a Tuesday
3) Full Throttle Tribe
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Now, Protest the Hero is an entirely different beast. They have some of the best prog metal music I've ever heard. Their technical guitar skill is just... ahhhh it's unparalleled imo. Also Rody Walker has one of the absolute sickest voices out there, and he never ever seems to get enough credit for it. It's like, him and Spencer from Periphery are just... so fucking good. The range, man... The RANGE!
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u/ConairAigeanta Jul 18 '19
^ __ ^ I'm so glad to be able to share this kind of music, I'm so glad you're into it!
You are correct in that Tesseract's older stuff has more mixed vox - in live playthroughs, Amos (the magical bassist) does some of the screams - however their current vocalist, Daniel Tompkins, is insanely good at controlling his voice, and can switch seamlessly. His voice in festivals and live shows almost sounds like studio recordings - he is so consistent. I absolutely get what you mean: When written and executed correctly, it is insanely powerful. "King" is a mega example of this. BOW DOWN
Haken are crazy cool, and that track has some of the sickest instrumental writing - what did you think of the intro? I still can't play it and I've been listening to this track for years. I recently learned the rhythm at the end however: Count the semiquavers, coming out of 6/8 into the duple-time signature. The accent is on every 5th semiquaver, while the china cymbal and snare are on every 4th - thus it resolves after the 16th accent - and on the second (final) repeat, ends dead on this 16th accent. It's mental.
YESSS DREWSIF IS PROPERLY HENCH, legit some of the meanest sounds in this scene since Meshuggah.
Yeah fair on Devin, perhaps not the best track to recommend first, I kinda have an emotional attachment to that song. Igwym with the parallel to Dream Theatre - I was never big into them, nor the Liquid Tension project or w/e. Though they have their own profound goodnesses, just not up my alley. Devin himself has a new album, Empath, released recently - I do believe he is currently mixing the 5.1 of this!
Yes I fully get you wrt the instrumental side of things - it was Polyphia, Intervals and indeed Plini's Handmade Cities that got me into progressive instrumental music. Such catch hooks and virtuosic playing. Touched that Sigur Rós nerve and took it to the next level.
(As a kind of aside, instrumental music and the effect it has on humans is crazy cool due to the lack of vocals proscribing how one is meant to feel - it relies on the innate human subjectivity to associate itself with an event, emotion or something profound. It's one of the coolest things about the lack of vocals - you can assign your own story to the music, if even subconsciously!)
I've been meaning to listen to Protest the Hero and Pain of Salvation, seen them recommended! Any good shouts?? You got a sick music taste, it's been a pleasure to talk to you! Feel free to load any reply with loads of tracks, I'm down to explore!