Tag: protest the hero

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.

A band that come not to far away from me in Southern Ontario. This album came out in 2008. If you like things on the heavier end of the Prog Metal spectrum then these guys could just be for you.

The album is split into three parts which is cool, but not so cool when the album does not have the track listing for you to follow. The tracks that really shake my tree are as follows, Bone Marrow which reminds a tad of British eccentrics The Cardiacs with lots of lovely changes and grooves to keep your brain engaged. As well, Sequoia Throne has many nods to old school thrash. My favourite track, Palms Read has multiple time and groove changes to keep the most twisted mind happy. And, the totally nuts a go go Wretch.

Great band that consistently put out top quality music.

9/10 from The Grooveman.