Time for another Tech Tuesday post, as well as another "Hurry Up and Record a New Album" post. The relatively lengthy gaps between albums from Blotted Science are of course at least a little bit more excusable than they are for some other bands, given that this a 'supergroup' that draws all of its members from other bands, but I'd still really like to hear some new material already.
If you're familiar with the technical wizardry that is Blotted Sciences, I'd be willing to bet that you're right there with me. But if you don't know the instrumental madness of Ron Jarzombek and Company, now is as good a time as any to get on board and join the cool kids in counting the days until the next Blotted Science release.
Your belated Tech Tuesday song, the killer "EEG Tracings", comes from the band's 2007 album The Machinations of Dementia, which has only been followed up by one other record, 2011's The Animation of Entomology. Now, I'm no mathemagician, but if Blotted Science keep to the rough four-year album cycle they've been on for the last couple of records, that makes 2015/2016 just about time for new stuff, n'est pas?
Showing posts with label Ron Jarzombek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ron Jarzombek. Show all posts
Sunday, 18 October 2015
Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Thursday: Blotted Science - Vermicular Asphyxiation
How's this for a carry-over theme from my last post: progressive instrumental with lots of jazzy influences and new material in the works. If these guys somehow had a Canadian connection, this segue would be nearly perfect, but alas, I'll have to settle for an increased tech quotient on this one. Sigh.
Word on the street last fall was that Ron and Company were set to start work on a new record over the winter, but things have been more or less all quiet on the Blotted Science front since then. Hopefully no news is good news, in the sense of album progress being made, but either way we're stuck with old Blotted Science for the foreseeable future.
No that there's anything wrong with that, seeing as how labyrinthine instrumental tech-prog is up everybody's alley, right? Right. So let's put on "Vermicular Asphyxiation" from Blotted Science's 2011 EP The Animation of Entomology as background music for our ceremonies of propitiation to the tech gods asking for new Blotted Science in 2015.
Word on the street last fall was that Ron and Company were set to start work on a new record over the winter, but things have been more or less all quiet on the Blotted Science front since then. Hopefully no news is good news, in the sense of album progress being made, but either way we're stuck with old Blotted Science for the foreseeable future.
No that there's anything wrong with that, seeing as how labyrinthine instrumental tech-prog is up everybody's alley, right? Right. So let's put on "Vermicular Asphyxiation" from Blotted Science's 2011 EP The Animation of Entomology as background music for our ceremonies of propitiation to the tech gods asking for new Blotted Science in 2015.
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Tuesday: Blotted Science - Activation Synthesis Theory
Time for a quick little Tech Tuesday post to tuck you in tonight, and this evening I'm going with an older track from everybody's favourite tech-prog supergroup.
Blotted Science are one of those slightly-beneath-the-radar bands that people don't know about but really should, especially given their membership. Guitarist Ron Jarzombek, bassist Alex Webster, and drummer Hannes Grossmann have a combined resume that includes some pretty storied metal and prog acts, so you could be forgiven for expecting big things from them.
So far, they've delivered, especially with 2011's The Animation of Entomology, a brutally labyrinthine EP of insect-inspired instrumental prog-sanity. But news that the band is soon to start recording their third release had me revisiting to both entries in the back catalogue in anticipation of the madness to come.
Your song this evening therefore comes from the band's first outing, 2007's The Machinations of Dementia. "Activation Synthesis Theory" is as good an example as you could ask for of why everybody should know about Blotted Science. If off-the-wall instrumental tech is your thing, you may well have come to the right place tonight.
Blotted Science are one of those slightly-beneath-the-radar bands that people don't know about but really should, especially given their membership. Guitarist Ron Jarzombek, bassist Alex Webster, and drummer Hannes Grossmann have a combined resume that includes some pretty storied metal and prog acts, so you could be forgiven for expecting big things from them.
So far, they've delivered, especially with 2011's The Animation of Entomology, a brutally labyrinthine EP of insect-inspired instrumental prog-sanity. But news that the band is soon to start recording their third release had me revisiting to both entries in the back catalogue in anticipation of the madness to come.
Your song this evening therefore comes from the band's first outing, 2007's The Machinations of Dementia. "Activation Synthesis Theory" is as good an example as you could ask for of why everybody should know about Blotted Science. If off-the-wall instrumental tech is your thing, you may well have come to the right place tonight.
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Protest the Hero - Drumhead Trial
Thanks apparently to some early radio leakage, we've all got another new Protest the Hero track to help keep our appetites for the new album sated for a little longer.
"Drumhead Trial" also gives us another example of Chris Adler's drum work with the band, and also happens to feature Ron Jarzombek (from Blotted Science, among other bands) doing some guest guitar soloing. All of this adds up to another solid Protest song. Does it matter that all people can say about the recently revealed Volition album art (which seems to me to be a pretty unsubtle statement about voyeurism and objectification in our modern times) is "ZOMG bird gang rape!!1!"? Not in the slightest.
So take a few minutes right now to put on some "Drumhead Trial", and then take the rest of your evening praying to whatever gods you see fit in the hopes that this record will drop sooner.
"Drumhead Trial" also gives us another example of Chris Adler's drum work with the band, and also happens to feature Ron Jarzombek (from Blotted Science, among other bands) doing some guest guitar soloing. All of this adds up to another solid Protest song. Does it matter that all people can say about the recently revealed Volition album art (which seems to me to be a pretty unsubtle statement about voyeurism and objectification in our modern times) is "ZOMG bird gang rape!!1!"? Not in the slightest.
So take a few minutes right now to put on some "Drumhead Trial", and then take the rest of your evening praying to whatever gods you see fit in the hopes that this record will drop sooner.
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