Behold... The Arctopus "Hapeleptic Overtrove"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Technical Avant Prog Math Rock/Metal  
Label: Willowtip Records
Format: vinyl, digital
Release date: June 12, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Quithtion (0:29)
2. Adult Contemporary (2:05)
3. Telepathy Apathy (2:03)
4. Blessing In Disgust (2:58)
5. Forgotten Explanations (5:18)
6. Other Realms (Instrumental) (6:45)
7. Perverse. Esoteric. Different (6:43)
8. Hapeleptic Perspective Respect (4:48)
9. Quithtion Overtrove (0:48)

Total Time 31:57

Line-up: 
Colin Marston - Warr guitar
Mike Lerner - guitar
Jason Bauers (Psyopus) - percussion

Description/Reviews: 

The band’s weapons, once again, are absurd technicality, inspiration drawn from avant-garde composers like Arnold Schoenberg, and an utter disregard for traditional understandings of tonality and melody. On Hapeleptic Overtrove, Marston and company focus on dizzying intricacy and speed a bit less than on previous efforts, but their newfound determination to eschew everything resembling standard percussion and unwillingness to part ways with their oddball technicality ensure they remain committed to their own brand of trailblazing strangeness.

Read the full review by Jackson French at metal-observer.com

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Terminal Function "Clockwork Sky"

Country: Sweden
Genre(s): Progressive Technical Death Metal
Label: Willowtip
Format: CD, digital
Release date: September 18, 2015
Tracklist: 
1. Seraph Sublime (3:30)
2. Dream Traveler (4:03)
3. The Reticent Race (4:29)
4. The Quintessential Sequence Part 1: A Convivial Riddler (3:49)
5. The Quintessential Sequence Part 2: Self Constructed Chameleon Being (3:46)
6. The Quintessential Sequence Part 3: The Incoherent Demon (4:27)
7. Inside The Quadrant (0:37)
8. Spectral Encagement (4:03)
9. Cell Intrusive (3:47)
10. Intrastrophe (3:28)
11. Ablation Renewed (4:42)

Total time 40:41

Line-up: 
David Lindkvist - Drums, Keyboards
Stefan Aronsson - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards
Mikael Almgren - Guitars
Victor Larsson - Vocals

Media/Samples 
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Baring Teeth "Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Technical Death Metal
Label: Willowtip
Format: CD, digital
Release date: November 24, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. An Illusion of Multiple Voices 02:00
2. Mountain 04:43
3. Visitant 04:30
4. The Great Unwashed 06:12
5. Terra Nullius 04:30
6. Dripping Sun 04:01
7. The Unwilling 06:46
8. Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins 04:23

Line-up: 
Jason Roe - Drums
Scott Addison - Vocals, Bass
Andrew Hawkins - Vocals, Guitars

Description/Reviews: 

Not only have they moved further from the realms of their Obscura-influenced debut, they’ve managed to expand their sound. It would have been easy and standard for a metal band like this one to keep the same blazing tempo and stylistic formula the second time around. Yet this time Baring Teeth offer more cesspools and sinkholes to drop into, sucking up more of the music like a slow-draining black hole, while also offering full-scale onslaught the likes of which will make your face melt just a bit too much to recover from in one sitting.

 Read the full review by Austin Weber at nocleansinging.com

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