Pet peeve alert! You release a record and the artwork and the pressing are superb, but you put zero information on the cover, not even a track listing. This is a reissue of Protest the Hero’s 2011 album through Sheet Happens, who always do great pressings. They are a relatively local band for me so I have followed them since the beginning.
Technical progressive metal is an ever expanding genre and these guys do push boundaries. They lean to the heavier side of the machine but melody is never far away and the clean soaring vocal of Rody Walker is superb sitting just on top of all the technical noodling that rages underneath. It’s tough to pick a fave as there are so many different elements to all the songs, but Tapestry is just intense and I love the interplay between vocals and riifage. That staccato pattern is freakin’ awesome.
Killer record by such a cool band.
9/10 from The Grooveman.
