Monday 6 October 2014

Thomas Giles - Mutilated World

     If you're a fan of Between the Buried and Me, you're no doubt aware that the band recently released their Future Sequence: Live at Fidelitorium live DVD/Blu-Ray performance of The Parallax II: Future Sequence in its entirety (what a mouthful!) But you might be somewhat less cognizant of the fact that the band's frontman Tommy Rogers is a little over a month from releasing his second solo effort under the Thomas Giles moniker.

     Or maybe you're super aware of this already, I don't know. Maybe you've already heard "Mutilated World", the first single from the upcoming Modern Noise, and discovered that it's pretty different from Between the Buried and Me while still having flashes of heavy-ish-ness. The little guitar run/drum fill bits that serve as transitions at a couple of points in the song seem particularly BTBAM-ish to my ear, as if the band were experimenting with their kind of style in a new musical context.

     But it's a Thomas Giles record, not a BTBAM record, which means the whole thing will likely be a somewhat mellower affair. Does that mean you as a metalhead won't find anything to get behind? Not necessarily. Check out "Mutilated World" and see if you dig Tommy's vocal work in a non-prog/tech/death setting.

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