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0 NEWS: Vancouver Prog Virtuosos OMNISIGHT Stream Title Track From Upcoming EP ‘Power of One’

  • December 19, 2016
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · Omnisight

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NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC – December 19, 2016

For fans of Dream Theater, Tool, Yngwie Malmsteen ,Animals As Leaders,Van Halen, RacerX

Vancouver Prog Virtuosos OMNISIGHT Stream Title Track From Upcoming EP ‘Power of One’

      Vancouver progressive virtuosos OmnisighT will be kicking off 2017 with the release of their new EP ‘Power of One’ on January 20th to follow their 2016 live album ‘Live At The Theatre’.  OmnisighT are influenced by greats like Soundgarden, Dream Theater, Meshuggah, Tool, and Faith No More, but transcend their influences to become very much their own creation. Justifiably highly regarded for their musicianship and finely wrought song-craft, OmnisighT bring progressive metal into new dimensions.

“I think our guitar player fans will really like the new EP.  I think fans of the songs will also be pleased with the thoughtful lyrics. I’m questioning the status quo. The song ‘Power of One’ is about how one person can make a difference in the world around them just with knowledge and a little spiritual balance. The album as a whole is a musical journey, there is the concept of standing up to the oppression and deceptions of the ruling class.” comments vocalist/guitarist Raj Krishna.
The EP’s title track ‘Power of One’ is now streaming at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0PfsmXuBPA

along with EP pre-order available at https://omnisight.bandcamp.com./album/the-power-of-one

‘Power of One’ will also be available on iTunes, Spotify and Bandcamp as of January 20, 2017.


1. Shift The Paradigm (5:24)
2. Resistance (4:51)
3. Seven Sisters (6:32)
4. Fall of The Empire (7:04)
5. Power of One (7:11)
EP Length: 31:04

 

About:
Known for their formidable musicianship, virtuosic guitar solos and powerful songs, OmnisighT is masterfully blurring the lines between melodic hard rock and progressive metal. Beginning as collaboration between vocalist/guitarist Raj Krishna and drummer Chris Warunki, they created the impressive ‘Path’ debut album in 2012. Their live line-up was consolidated with the addition of Dave Shannon on bass and guitarist Blake Rurik. ‘Path’ was followed up by the 2013 ‘Wave Particle’ EP.

Like all truly visionary musicians, band co-founder Raj was driven to create unique music. “I’ve been writing and singing songs since I was a little kid. We never seemed to hear heavy prog music that had shredding and hooks at the same time. It always seems you get one or the other….Having technical musicianship with good song-writing, shredding licks, and big hooks was the whole idea.”

Raj sums up OmnisighT’s music thusly: ‘Proggy, hooky, shredding, sad, and powerful!’

While Raj is justifiably proud of OmnisighT’s recorded output, he sees the importance of performance. ‘Live is where the band really shines! We put on a show, running around smiling and shredding. The band plays with more intensity…we often give the headliners a run for their money.’

For more info, please visit the following links:
https://www.facebook.com/omnisight 
https://ashermediarelations.com/2016/12/16/epk-omnisight-power-of-one-ep-2017/ 

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“If you’re going to attempt this sort of thing, you’d better have chops. Fortunately, (OmnisighT) have ’em, and how.” – Georgia Straight

“Their stage presence and technique is out of this world…I can safely say that the only guitarists I’ve seen live that instilled the same sort of awe in me as Raj Krishna were Jeff Loomis and John Petrucci himself.” – Prog Sphere

“great songwriting, fantastic lead guitar work…immediately on the first track, the intro “String Theory,” we are greeted by some immense guitar skills. Seriously, these guys are fucking fantastic.” – The Monolith

“deliciously retro, Zappa-meets-Malmsteen solos with at least one toe in the land of jazzy improv… guitar fiends should rush to check them out.” – Georgia Straight

“I have never been more impressed with a band that I had zero knowledge about. These guys play like they’ve been playing together since birth and clearly love what they do at a cellular level.” – Metal Titans

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0 NEWS: TERAMOBIL (ft. members Augury,Beyond Creation,Unhuman) Unleash New Album ‘Magnitude of Thoughts’

  • November 29, 2016
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · Teramobil

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Montreal, QC – November 29, 2016

Album Promo Request here.

For fans of Animals As Leaders, Scale The Summit, Archspire, Chimp Spanner

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Montreal Instrumental Tech Death TERAMOBIL (ft. members Augury, Beyond Creation, Unhuman, The Plasmarifle) Announce New Album ‘Magnitude of Thoughts’ via Newcore Music

Photo by Renaud Sake

Montreal, QC’s TERAMOBIL comprised of bass master Dominic ‘Forest’ Lapointe (Augury, ex-Beyond Creation, BARF), Mathieu Bérubé (Unhuman) on guitar and Alexandre Dupras (Unhuman, The Plasmarifle) on drums create an uncompromising amalgamation that heralds the best of technical death metal, progressive rock, jazz fusion and psychedelic grooves. Unleashing their debut EP ‘Multispectral Supercontinuum’ in 2013, these technical titans return with their sophomore release ‘Magnitude of Thoughts’ out now digitally and available on digipak on December 9th via Newcore Music. The seven song earth shattering opus features guest appearances from Luc Lemay of Gorguts on guitar for ‘Thanatonaut’ plus Antoine Baril (Augury, Symbolic, Contemplator) performing organ on the album’s title track. The album was mixed and mastered by Christian Donaldson (Cryptopsy, Beyond Creation, The Agonist) at The Grid with recordings of drums done at Emery Street Studio with Seb Black, bass at Humanoise Studio by Mathieu Marcotte (Augury) and guitars at Gorguts’ Luc Lemay’s Windy Hills Studio. Cover and layout art was done by Filip Ivanović.

The band’s new video for the album’s title track can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H4tpX3e_BQ

Plus full album stream at https://teramobil.bandcamp.com/album/magnitude-of-thoughts

Album pre-order packages available at https://teramobil.ifmerch.com/en/

For those in the Montreal area, TERAMOBIL will be hosting an album release party on December 9th at Foufounes Electriques w/ Brought By Pain, Unbeing, Tempête, Intonate. info


1. Terahertz (4:30)
2. Magnitude Of Thoughts (3:58)
3. Thanatonaut (6:26)
4. Deconstruct Metabolism (3:52)
5. Synchrotron (3:19)
6. Exoteric (5:57)
7. The Armada (4:24)

For more info, please visit: http://www.teramobil.com.

About:

Teramobil first appeared in 2010 when Unhuman’s Mathieu Bérubé and Alexandre Dupras had some time off and started creating a new form of ”riffing” where different styles plus current would collide to structure themselves in a very distinct way for every individual song. Spending the first year gathering ideas and writing compositions, they started seeking a bass player to complete the instrumental trio. Bassist Dominic ”Forest” Lapointe finally joined during fall 2011. Being a frequent visitor of the pair’s famous jams, he proposed to start playing with them in order to bring a third vision to this musical exploration.

The trio recorded their first EP ”Multispectral Supercontinuum” in 2013 and supported it with a video for the release’s title-track along with multiple performances in the Montreal area along bands such as Cryptopsy, Gorguts and Animals As Leaders.

With their new album ”Magnitude Of Thoughts” coming out in late 2016, the band seeks to push the envelope further, still offering lots of variety, but with longer song structures, developing darker progressive ambiance while retaining a chaotic rock groove. On ‘Magnitude of Thoughts’, the three musicians have invited Gorguts’ Luc Lemay as second guitarist on the song ”Thanatonaut” as well as Augury’s Antoine Baril who played organ on the title track.

You are invited to follow Teramobil on this musical journey where norms are non-existant and where non-typical art researchers might be interested. To be continued!

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0 NEWS: SkullsnBones Showcase TACTUS’ Prog Tech Shredding In ‘Colossus’ Guitar Playthrough

  • November 1, 2016
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · Tactus

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NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC – November 1, 2016

Album Promo Request here.
For fans of Periphery, Protest the Hero, Between the Buried and Me

Tactusband.com | Facebook | Twittter @tactusband

Youtube | Instagram @tactusband | Bandcamp

Download = Press Photo | Album Cover | Album Lyrics

SkullsnBones Showcase TACTUS’ Prog Tech Shredding In ‘Colossus’  Guitar Playthrough

New Album ‘Bending Light’ Out Now!


L-R: Tactus Current Lineup | Steve Parish (bass) | Ben MacLean (drums) | Jason McKnight (vocals) | Alec Dobbelsteyn (guitar) | Adrian Barnes (guitar & vocals)

Photo Credit: The Photo Ninja

Unleashing their debut full length ‘Bending Light’ on October 7th, Fredericton, New Brunswick five piece progressive metal band TACTUS have teamed up with SkullsnBones.com to show fans the technical shredding behind their track ‘Colossus’ in their latest guitar playthrough, which can be viewed at the following link: http://skullsnbones.com/tactus-premiere-guitar-playthrough-of-colossus/

TACTUS‘ ‘Bending Light’ features ten outer limit prog tracks produced by the band with mixing and mastering by Jamie King (Between The Buried In Me, Paradise Lost, Scale The Summit) to follow their previously released EPs ‘ins(T)rumental’ (2015) and ‘T’ (2014) plus singles ‘Enigma’ and their metal cover of The Police’s ‘Roxanne’.

Bending Light – Album Stream – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niLxagtaRQE

The album is available for order on CD and digital download at the following links.

CD: http://buytactus.bigcartel.com/

Regular Album Order:
https://tactusband.bandcamp.com/album/bending-light
Bandcamp Exclusive Version w/ instrumentals and complete guitar tablature:

https://tactusband.bandcamp.com/album/bending-light-bandcamp-exclusive

 

1. Anamnesis (2:12)
2. Aurora (6:26)
3. Scimitar (4:08)
4. All Roads (4:06)
5. Feast or Famine (4:58)
6. Colossus (4:20)
7. Goliath (7:14)
8. Cardinal (4:20)
9. Red and Ivory (6:56)
10. King of the Sky (14:35)
Album Length: 59.21About:

Formed in 2011 as a jam project by three fellow music students, the group has gone on to release several singles and EPs independently, while having the opportunity to share the stage with great metal acts like Protest the Hero, Intervals, Black Crown Initiate, and Mandroid Echostar. The group pride themselves on their infusion of multiple musical styles into hard-hitting riffs, epic choruses, and technically intense passages. Soaring melodies, guttural growls, and destructive breakdowns flow into soft, slow, and pensive segments of jazz and rock. Their compositional method, where songs are conceived, written, transcribed, and edited before they are ever learned or rehearsed, adds a level of refinement and fluidity not always found in heavier music. The band do almost all of their engineering work themselves, but have also worked with several talented producers. Their first EP T (June 2014), comprised of four previously released singles and one new song, featured the mixing and mastering handiwork of Gino Bambino (Novallo) and Justin Hill (SikTh). Their single Resurface (December 2014) was handled by George Lever (Burials).

For more info, please visit: www.TactusBand.com.

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0 NEWS: Drummer Sean Lang Posts Teaser Video For New Project SEVEN YEAR STORM w/ Dean Lamb (Archspire)

  • December 4, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Sean Lang (Drummer) - Seven Year Storm

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NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC – December 4, 2014

EP PROMOS FOR MEDIA COVERAGE (ex. feature, interview, album review, airplay, etc.) CAN BE REQUESTED HERE

RIYL (Recommended If You Like) – Chimp Spanner, Planet X, Animals As Leaders, Cloudkicker

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Drummer Sean Lang Posts Teaser Video For New Project SEVEN YEAR STORM w/ Dean Lamb (Archspire)

Seven Year Storm – Aion I – Teaser – http://youtu.be/LNSJpSOB7iw 

Limited Edition CD pre-order – http://sevenyearstorm.bandcamp.com/

     Initially never planning to release his music compositions beyond the borders of just song writing, freelance drummer / instructor Sean Lang was urged by his circle of musician friends whom heard his material to take his creativity to the next level.

The outcome is Vancouver-based instrumental progressive metal band Seven Year Storm, which showcases Lang’s unique sound, music arrangements written entirely by him plus added support of guitar-wizard and good friend Dean Lamb (Archspire) whom handles all of the mind-bending guitar leads and solos. Everything comes together into songs that are tight and heavy, melodic and groovy, technical yet memorable.

To get these works of art off the studio floor, Lang launched an Indiegogo campaign (video can be viewed here) to raise the necessary investment to complete the first collection of songs, which will be released in 2015 as two EPs: Aion I and Aion II.

A teaser video for Aion I can be viewed at the following link here plus EP pre-order for a limited edition CD here.

“I’ve been hard at work on my first release,  Aion I. Here is a little taste of what is to come! This wouldn’t be possible without the excellent musicians involved, as well as my amazing Indiegogo contributors who helped bring this project to life!” comments Lang.

For more info, please visit the following link: www.seanlang.com

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