Moderno e progressivo / metal técnico, muitas vezes sofre de uma falta total e absoluta de sutileza. Isso provavelmente não é novidade para você, porque se você é um fã de bandas como Nascido de Osíris ou Entre o Buried and Me, que completa falta de sutileza é provavelmente a razão que você gosta tanto deles: os seus membros são extremamente talentoso em seus instrumentos e fazem questão de mostrar que em todas as oportunidades. A colheita de varredura, ritmos sincopados, mudanças de tempo frequentes - você provavelmente absolutamente viver para essas coisas.
Digite Intronaut, uma banda que consegue no uso de seu profundo conhecimento musical e costeletas impressionantes para a sua vantagem, em vez de seu detrimento. A perícia técnica de membros Intronaut (particularmente o baixista Joe Lester eo baterista Danny Walker) é óbvio, mas nunca é o foco principal da composição, a sua música sempre teve uma boa dose de melodia e atmosfera, com essas características crescendo em Prehistoricisms e realmente tornando-se o foco no Vale do fumo. É uma questão técnica sutil que está presente em sua música, e não o up-front "olhar para o quão rápido eu posso rasgar!" Tecnicismo que muitas bandas tentam impressionar-nos com.
Seu mais novo álbum, Levitações habitual (Incutir palavras com sons), mostra a banda resolver em o som que começou no Vale do Fumo, ficando longe da intensidade pesado que definiram o seu início de carreira e se concentrando mais no melódico, atmosférico, jazzy-proggy aspectos de seu som. Isso não quer dizer que nunca é pesado, porque há uma abundância de riffs de metal a ser encontrado (se você já ouviu o "Perna de Leite" single ou confira o abridor álbum "Killing Birds Com Pedras", você vai encontrá-los) , mas o mais abrasivo peso, lamacento que foi encontrado em nula e sem efeito se não parece estar voltando, e não há mais duras nada que um vocal rouca limpa vinda da boca de Sacha Dunable para ser encontrada aqui (embora as melodias limpas são bastante bonita). Como Vale da Fumaça, há muitas melódico, demora-laden guitarras, linhas de baixo fretless jazz e padrões de bateria complexos que enfatizam a complexidade rítmica.
Levitações habituais (Incutir palavras com sons) pode ser encomendado a partir Century Media. O álbum será lançado em 19 de março, e preorders enviar para fora esta semana. Transmiti-lo na íntegra aqui
However, if you’re like me, then that lack of subtlety is the reason you despise most modern prog metal. If you’re like me, then it seems blatantly obvious to you that most of these bands are more interested in showing off than actually writing good, cohesive songs. The abundance of technique leads to songs that sound mechanical and generic, and the Riff ADD that these bands often also suffer from leads to songs with little in the way of a coherent message. Me, I’d rather listen to a riff that’s musically interesting than musically complex, and find it disappointing that so many bands focus on the latter and forget the former.
Enter Intronaut, a band that succeeds at using their deep musical knowledge and impressive chops to their advantage rather than their detriment. The technical prowess of Intronaut’s members (particularly bassist Joe Lester and drummer Danny Walker) is obvious, but is never the main focus of the songwriting; their music has always had a good deal of melody and atmosphere, with those traits growing on Prehistoricisms and really becoming the focus on Valley of Smoke. It’s a subtle technicality that is present in their music, not the up-front “look at how fast I can shred!” technicality that so many bands attempt to impress us with.
Their newest album, Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones), shows the band settling into the sound they started on Valley of Smoke, getting away from the heavy intensity that defined their early career and focusing more on the melodic, atmospheric, jazzy-proggy aspects of their sound. That’s not to say it’s never heavy, as there are plenty of metal riffs to be found (if you’ve heard the lead single “Milk Leg” or check out the album opener “Killing Birds With Stones,” you’ll find them), but the more abrasive, sludgy heaviness that was found on Null and Void is doesn’t appear to be coming back, and there’s nothing harsher than a gruff clean vocal coming from Sacha Dunable’s mouth to be found here (although the clean melodies are quite pretty). Like Valley of Smoke, there are lots of melodic, delay-laden guitars, jazzy fretless bass lines, and complex drum patterns that emphasize the rhythmic complexity.
As an album, Habitual Levitations also feels more unified than Valley of Smoke. There are not as many obvious standout tracks on Habitual Levitations, but listening to the album feels more like a continuous journey than Valley of Smoke did. That could be a blessing or a curse depending on the listener’s habits; for me, it’s pretty much a wash, since the unified flow of the album lends itself well to its more laid-back nature. And that’s not to say that the album doesn’t have standout tracks (my top picks are “Killing Birds With Stones” and “Harmonomicon”), just that it takes more listens for them to show themselves.
Habitual Levitations seems to show Intronaut settling on the sound that will define their career; Valley of Smoke started them down that road and this new album is another brick laid into it. The evolution Intronaut have shown from Null/Void to Prehistoricisms to Valley of Smoke reminds me a great deal of Opeth’s early career trajectory, where the Orchid/Morningrise sound gave way to My Arms, Your Hearse, and then Still Life was a more complete change into the classic Opeth sound. And while I have no idea what the future will bring from Intronaut, I would guess that, ten years from now, we will point to Valley of Smoke as the beginning of the “classic” Intronaut sound. Essentially, this makes Habitual Levitations the Blackwater Park stage of Intronaut’s career, and I would not be shocked to see them sustain a run of fantastic albums like Opeth did through Ghost Reveries.
Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones) can be preordered from Century Media. The album will be released on March 19, and preorders ship out this week. Stream it in its entirety here.
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