Nice change of pace from our previous selections! I have to say I don’t listen to heaps of metal usually, and when I do its usually sludgier/noisier/hardcore punk stuff. I had a prog-metal phase in my teens (particularly for Dream Theater), and hardcore screeching/screaming vocals are about my typical limit, but I thought this had a good blend of that with the proggy high operatic style.
Totally rad name for the band, very bold move to do that that often doesn’t seem to pay off, but it looks like they had a good run with it. I am very keen to now hear what these guys sounded like at the start of their career over ten years earlier, as yeah they are impressively clean and technical here.
I can’t say I get the King Gizzard comparison to be honest, which is totally fine, I think its very important to listen to the progenitors of the genres that they do ‘dip’ in and out of. I wasn’t really able to follow the lyrics, so perhaps I am missing a lot of the progressive nature though. When King Gizz are in this mode, it tends to seem much funnier, camp, or more ironic than this kind of thing; which seems to be wanting you to take it very seriously? Maybe not, I don’t have a good sense of what the scene for this was like in the late nineties.