#DevinTownsendProject - Fallout (ft. Anneke Van Giersbergen)

I love Sky Blue and Z2 so much. I really need another Ziltoid radio opera, that was the best format for something like Ziltoid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B7Grtd0zSQ
@metal #music #metal #MetalMusic #DevinTownsend #ProgressiveMetal #AnnekeVanGiersbergen #CleanVocals #HarshVocals #FemaleVocals #MaleVocals

Anneke Van Giersbergen después de The Gathering: Una carrera dilatada en el tiempo | vía #NaciónRock

https://www.nacionrock.com/anneke-van-giersbergen-despues-de-the-gathering-una-carrera-dilatada-en-el-tiempo/

#30añosdetrayectoria #aguadeannique #annekevangiersbergen #devintownsendproject #everythingischanging #folk #lavie #lorrainville #pioneradelmetal #progrock #thegentlestorm #vuur

Episode two hundred and thirty is up now! Today's song is Call of the Void by Devin Townsend.

I discuss the song's laid back tone, despite it still being a growling metal song, and its mental health centric message.

https://youtu.be/k-joo8m5hMU?si=07yuEt8rnkz3dqdr

#podcast #dailypodcast #pigeon #pigeonsongspod #music #songs #callofthevoid #devintownsend #devintownsendproject #lightwork #canada

Hakar på #blandbandsfredag med en flytande mix av låtar jag lyssnat på under året. Den mest spelade artisten på listan är #porcupinetree och den minst spelade #hatifnats som bara har hundratalet lyssnare på spotify. De förtjänar bättre! Därutöver även #klone, #anubisgate, #davidpaich, #poetsofthefall, #prehistoricanimals, #devintownsendproject, #themayanfactor, #kingbuffalo, #soen, #lostinkiev and #monkey3. Håll till godo!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ol0dJZTi9wE3rvByyulyF?si=gNx4C7pqQu2WRCw7ENmhzQ

Когда также зарегистрировался на платформе #blueskysocial (никнейм @ true-den89) и вспомнил про прекрасную композицию от #devintownsendproject #skyblue.

Добавляйтесь все, кто там уже есть! Лайк, подписка, комментарии, все дела) Буду рад каждому! 🙌
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Episode twenty-four is up now! Today's song is Kingdom by Devin Townsend Project.

I discuss Devin's incredible vocal range and performance, and the way it contrasts with his wisecracking personality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieK8lwh_f4E

#podcast #dailypodcast #pigeon #pigeonsongspod #music #songs #kingdom #devintownsend #devintownsendproject #epicloud #physicist #metal #emgtv

OU – 蘇醒 II: Frailty Review

By Dolphin Whisperer

Beijing isn’t known for being a hotbed of metal, and what bands do exist (documented) don’t really present many ways to listen on a global scale. But, being comprised of human beings, music persists in that region whether we realize it or not. And of that perseverance OU1 blossomed. Triumphant and glistening, their 2022 debut one wasted no time infecting and warping my listening consciousness with its unique blend of progressive metal, power pop, and dream-like ambient fusion. In a world where bands like Haken and Leprous continue to streamline and commodify their once vibrant and promising sounds, OU planted a crooked and smiling stake amongst the swath of fledgling prog bands everywhere. With that exuberant spirit, lightning threatens to strike twice.

OU’s first adventure caused big enough waves for labelmate Devin Townsend to sign on to give 蘇醒 II: Frailty a level of production one didn’t quite have. Often, Townsend’s most intriguing engineering work has arrived via his softer, layered works (Ki, Ghost, Transcendence) where his minimalist weavings shine bright. And while OU has one foot in the other maximalist realm that earned Townsend a reputation for pushing a throbbing wall of sound, the back half of one, and, consequently, the comedowns of 蘇醒, finds power in the explosions of careful and heavily layered builds. In this space, Townsend allows OU’s spry synthcraft and ethereal vocal layering to wisp about with freedom, frantic abandon, and dreamy oscillation.

As such, every moment of 蘇醒 steps either toward a serene tension or an explosive climb. Drummer and primary songwriter Anthony Vanacore rests the center of OU’s sound, laying foundations that range from a mathematically erratic SikTh kick-infested bounce (“淨化 Purge”) to a Jegog emulating wonderland that’s as much King Crimson as it is “Kaneda’s Theme” (“念 Recall”). Whether the drive of a track calls for virtuosic snare ghosting (“海 Ocean”) or arena-weighted hammering (“破魂 Spirit Broken”), his kit serves as a guide. And in suit, his stringed bandmates render as tonal chameleons, lurching along with chord-expanding drones and pops to build ascending progressions (“蘇醒 Frailty,” “海 Ocean”) or offering Metheny-smooth jazzy counterpoint to swell drifting ambience (“血液 Redemption”). OU’s compositional vocabulary rests in harmonic excess, a point in which this seasoned troupe indulges for 歪歪地愛 YYDS,2 which is both offensive and brilliant in its forceful djent playfulness.

But all of the above hinges on the energetic flow that vocalist Lynn Wu imbues across each track. Again offering her services only in her native Chinese tongue, there isn’t a single word across 蘇醒 that I understand, though lyric translations and title themes paint a picture throughout that lands a touch more introspective than OU’s previous work. In turn, Wu’s chopped and terraced patterns spiral and gather toward sonic peaks where a lead guitar normally might exist in a different context (“蘇醒 Frailty,” “海 Ocean,” “輪迴 Reborn”). As a more traditional and piercing rock voice, Wu holds her own against the equally wailing Townsend on “淨化 Purge” and works alone to swing “破魂 Spirit Broken” between outcry and melancholic resolution. And still reaching further for new levels of manipulation, Wu sees her lines shifted to a vocaloid approximation to match the low-bit charm of “衍生 Capture and Elongate (Serenity).”3 Whatever character 蘇醒 requires Wu embodies in an unparalleled manner.

After all, it’s the idiosyncratic atmosphere into which OU collects its myriad sounds that makes 蘇醒 II: Frailty such a delight. And with a spacious master to back its meticulous construction and snappy runtime, it’s effortless to fall prey to the polyrhythmic hypnosis that OU has mastered. The most unfortunate part, though, about sinking deeper in love with what this singular Chinese act has created is that it’s only real partner is the previous OU album. So if you’re new to the game, you’re in luck, you get one and II. And if you need any extra convincing, just ask yourself whether you enjoy listening to prog that drives lesser music enjoyers up a wall. The real fun is where others fear to look.

Rating: 4.5/5.0
DR: 10 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Inside Out Music | Bandcamp4
Websites: outheband.com | facebook.com/ou.theband
Releases Worldwide: April 26th, 2024

#2024 #45 #Ambient #Apr24 #ChineseMetal #DevinTownsend #DevinTownsendProject #ExperimentalElectronic #InsideOutMusic #KingCrimson #MathRock #OU #PatMetheny #ProgressiveMetal #ProgressiveRock #Review #Reviews #Rush #SikTh #蘇醒IIFrailty

Omnerod – The Amensal Rise [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]

By Kenstrosity

Sometimes a record takes its sweet time worming its way into my hole brain. Other times, a record drills into me with the immediacy of a bolt of lightning. Omnerod’s sophomore full-length, The Amensal Rise, did a little bit of both to me in 2023. Released back in May, this immense, intense slab of dramatic progressive death metal slowly crept into my skin, but the infection it carried was virulent. I found myself feverishly affected by its horrific tale, and while it took me a while before I returned, once I did, there was no escape.

Omnerod is an odd duck, there’s no doubt about it. Bridging the gap between Devin Townsend Project, Blind the Huntsmen, and Native Construct, these Belgians charge fearlessly into the theatrical, twisted, and dramatic. As I expected from an Omnerod product, a surplus of wacky instrumentation, off-kilter riffing, and wildly entertaining songwriting catapults into my cranium during each and every moment of The Amensal Rise. However, the added horror elements à la Nightmarer and Blindfolded and Led to the Woods make this a much darker, much heavier, and much more immersive affair than Arteries. In execution, Omnerod’s ultimate goal with The Amensal Rise is to fuck with your brain, maintaining a deep sense of foreboding and distrust while luring you into trap after monstrous trap for over an hour—and then make you want to do it all over again.

Between Anthony Deneyer’s unbelievable vocal performance; Romain Jeuniaux’s multifaceted and novel guitar wizardry; André Six’s immense bass heft; and Pablo Schwilden Diaz’s venerable work on the drum kit, the keyboard, and all manner of other percussion, I find myself utterly enraptured by Omnerod’s adventurous songwriting. From the very first explosive crash of opener “Sunday Heat,” The Amensal Rise abuses my bodily system as it repeatedly, mercilessly injects me with fatal doses of adrenaline. Dual-wielding crushing, skronky death metal and light, airy lulls, as on the monumental “Satellites,” Omnerod continue the adrenal abuse as they force my emotions to flick mercilessly from awe into alarm and back again. “Spore,” too, constitutes an unqualified triumph of songwriting dynamics. Its blasting death metal freakouts and tender, smooth jazz reveries make it an absolutely stunning thirteen-minute opus, easily launching itself into Song o’ the Year contention.

Come to think of it, almost every song here offers something compelling and memorable enough to make a play at Song o’ the Year playlists. “Magnets” shifts gears into more straightforward territory, stripping the layers left by its predecessors in favor of seriously infectious prog-death riffing and hooky writing. The title track blends beautifully Omnerod’s progressive death metal core with Danny Elfman-esque balladry and wonderfully twisted effects. Last but not least, closer “The Commensal Fall” brings all of the different directions and explorations ventured into one final conflagration, burning the whole barn down and leaving nothing but rubble and ash behind.

Perhaps most importantly, though, The Amensal Rise works without condition as a singular, unified experience. Yes, it’s extremely long at a lofty seventy minutes, but there’s never a dull moment and I find myself helplessly immersed in the whole terrifying trek. If you miss it, it is truly your loss.

Tracks to Check Out: “Satellites,” “Spore,” “The Amensal Rise,” “The Commensal Fall”

#2023 #BlindTheHuntsmen #BlindfoldedAndLedToTheWoods #DeathMetal #DevinTownsendProject #MelodicDeathMetal #NativeConstruct #Nightmarer #Omnerod #ProgressiveDeathMetal #ProgressiveMetal #Review #Reviews #SelfReleased #TheAmensalRise #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed2023