An album that's taken an incredibly long time to grow on me, but I think I've reached the peak of my appreciation for it. I've listened to these guys on and off for some months now, having dived into the area of math-ish metal after getting into Periphery a couple years back, but although TesseracT are often compared to Periphery, there was something obscenely different about the music I couldn't quite put my finger on that led me to not enjoy it as much as I should have been.
I recently realised that TesseracT's One is as much a head-banging metal epic as it's a serene, entrancing, ambient onslaught of surreal and dreamy soundscapes. It's not an album that really grabs your attention, more it subtly lures you into a lethargic state of complete immersion.
It almost sounds like your average "djent" band's take on a more progressive style of post-rock/metal, and whilst it's not the most exciting metal release (it's the sort of metal you can sleep to), it's an incredibly well-crafted atmospheric masterpiece, the soaring vocals and electronics/effects mixed louder than the chuggy & syncopated instrumentation to push them into a sort of rhythmic backdrop that grounds the music halfway between metal and ambient.
OneReleased: 2011
Country: UK
Genre: Progressive/Math Metal
"Concealing Fate Part Two - Deception" music video
"Lament"
