I don't even remember who recommended this band or why but thank you! They are absolutely incredible.
everyone in the band is between the ages of 12 and 15... not really - they just have access to great skin products
The first thing a metal fan might notice is that they seem to have a sound slightly reminiscent of TOOL plus they have a really talented bass player who is featured prominently. I can tell you, as a fellow bass player, that this doesn't happen very often.
I don't know how seriously people take my musical recommendations on this website. Sometimes I think people are just fishing for an upvote (that's common, it's fine) but I believe that someone who responded to me actually suggested checking out this band and if that person was you. I owe you, pal. This band is incredible. I can use this music for exercise motivation and also for music to go to sleep by.
They are defined as a progressive metal band – and I don't even know what that means – however I did read that they were instrumental in the forming of the “djent” movement. If you don't know what that means, perhaps I will write an article about that later. It's quite funny and well, if you like metal like I do, has some great stuff in it. For me, a lot of their stuff sounds like what i call "math metal" in that the timing is crazy, and well, maybe you have to be a musician to understand how hard it can be to have irregular riffs that change every 20 seconds are so. This is quite evident in the song "Nocturne"... which is featured here
dude it's like 430pm? why you stressing about that flashlight?
One of the things that really stands out for me about Tesseract is the fact that unlike a lot of hard metal bands out there, the listener really can't tell where Tesseract is going to go next. Are they going to have a wonderful multi-tiered vocal track with piano in the back? Are they going to have a driving beat and really heavy power-chord verse coming up? Are they going to have clean vocals or a scream? There is no determining what is coming up with them and that is fantastic.
Are they metal or are they doing stand in tracks for Coldplay? Did they hire Dream Theater's singer for half the song and Marilyn Manson for the other half? I just love how one track to the next displays a massive capability on the band's part to execute a high level of variety
Amos Williams, the bass player and backup vocalist is one of the most incredible bass players I have heard in metal, ever. I say this having only been familiar with the band for a few days.
I highly recommend any metal fans give these guys a go. Like i said before, i don't know what “progressive metal” actually means. You'll have to listen for yourself and make up your own mind. I know that I am already a fan and I have only listened to one album thus far.
I hope you'll feel the same :)