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.
Showing posts with label The Animation of Entomology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Animation of Entomology. Show all posts
Tuesday, 30 June 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.
Sunday, 16 February 2014
Saturday: Blotted Science - Synaptic Plasticity
For your Saturday song, we're going to switch over from the furious assault of Inferi to the dense technicality and shreddy virtuosity of Blotted Science.
I've written about this instrumental three-piece before, praising their latest album The Animation of Entomology, but as is so often the case, Blotted Science's latest work isn't their only record, giving me some tasty back catalogue to delve into.
And delve I have, sitting down and spending some time with Blotted Science's previous effort, their 2007 debut LP The Machinations of Dementia. I've changed my mind a couple of times, but I just keep coming back to the idea that, as is also so often the case, you should probably start this adventure off at the start with album opener "Synaptic Plasticity". It'll give you a pretty good idea of what kind of madness awaits you on the rest of the album, and if your brain hasn't be scrambled by the end of it, you're probably ready for The Machinations of Dementia.
I've written about this instrumental three-piece before, praising their latest album The Animation of Entomology, but as is so often the case, Blotted Science's latest work isn't their only record, giving me some tasty back catalogue to delve into.
And delve I have, sitting down and spending some time with Blotted Science's previous effort, their 2007 debut LP The Machinations of Dementia. I've changed my mind a couple of times, but I just keep coming back to the idea that, as is also so often the case, you should probably start this adventure off at the start with album opener "Synaptic Plasticity". It'll give you a pretty good idea of what kind of madness awaits you on the rest of the album, and if your brain hasn't be scrambled by the end of it, you're probably ready for The Machinations of Dementia.
Monday, 1 April 2013
Song of the Day: Blotted Science - Ingesting Blattaria
Super tech instrumetal time, kids! Here's a band that's been featured before, but it's been a while. It's also been a while since their last album, so maybe grab a copy of The Animation of Entomology or give their Facebook a like and let's see if we can't cajole some new tunes out of the mad scientists in Blotted Science.
Sunday, 23 December 2012
Song of the Day: Blotted Science - Cretaceous Chasm
I was going through my notes earlier, casting about for a song as I'm wont to do, and I came across a band I've written about before, back when I was writing longer non-daily posts, but one that's never gotten their own featured day. They're badass enough to warrant their own day, in my opinion, so here it is!
Thursday, 17 May 2012
The List: Instrumetal
OK, today I’m debuting The List, the first of what I intend to be several semi-regular, semi-themed posts here at Loud Noises. When I do a List post, I’ll be coming up with (gasp!) a list of bands/albums/whatever centred on a particular theme. (I know, I know, real original. Shut up.) Rather than agonize over actually ranking whatever it is I happen to be listing, these are just going to be lists of stuff you should check out, in no particular order (although I will of course mention when I think something is especially badass or otherwise worthy of note). And to start the listing off right, I’m going to try turning you on to what I feel might be a somewhat underappreciated variety of metal: instrumental metal, which for the purposes of this post I’ve decided to call instrumetal (nice portmanteau, huh?)
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