TesseracT - One |
Published April 06 2011
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Lament |
| Genre | Progressive Metal |
Dan Tompkins/Amos Williams
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Vocals
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| Tracks | 11 |
Acle Kahney
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Guitar
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| Runningtime | 52 Min. |
James Monteith
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Guitar
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| Label | Century Media |
Amos Williams
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Bass
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| Release | 22 March 2011 |
Jay Postones
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Drums
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| Country | England |
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| Producer | - | ||
| Similar artists | Between The Buried And Me, Animals As Leaders | ||
You could write that One is the debut album from one of the most interesting acts within the progressive/djentscene TesseracT, although this group gained some recognition when they released their EP Concealing Fate. This EP is also the backbone to the album. Cheating? Well if you have heard the EP you could argue this point as you are presented to "just" 5 new songs. On the other hand if you buy a physical copy of the album you get a DVD on which the band runs through the EP in its entirety with no overdubs whatsoever. For me that hadn't heard TesseracT prior to the full length release this was just a pure joy of a band to discover.
I hear traces of Between The Buried And Me, Animals As Leaders and Coheed And Cambria, but thankfully TesseracT haven't reduced themselves to being copycats of these great acts. The band's music has a expression of its own and the more I listen to the record the harder it gets not to hum the tunes - because this album is truly addictive.
Playing in odd meters and parts where the drummer Jay Postones unleashes hell from his limbs on top of guitarrhythms that reminds me of Meshuggah's riffart is something TesseracT excels at. But what really hits bull's eye for me is the mix between the brutally heavy parts and the very beautiful, almost brittle, melodies presented in the vocal deliverance from Tompkins and Williams. And yes, we're talking about both clean vocals and more shouted ones.
The songs themselves are through and through of very high quality - at times the music is so hypnotically good that my mind starts to wonder and almost not register that one song has ended and another begun. The red line running through the record is beautifully constructed. Best songs? All of them. No, I'm not kidding.
I'm very impressed by this album, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing where this band goes from here.
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Summary
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8 chalices of 10 - Martin |
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