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Solipsist (album)
''Solipsist'' is the debut studio album by Southern California technical death metal band The Zenith Passage. It was released via Unique Leader Records on April 15, 2016. It is the band's first release for Unique Leader Records, with whom they signed in 2013. The album focuses on the concept of solipsism. The album features a guest vocal appearance by Fallujah's Alex Hofmann, and guitar solo by Wes Hauch (ex-The Faceless). The cover art was done by Ken Sarafin, who had also worked with Skinless, The Kennedy Veil, and Archspire. Per figures provided by Metal news site MetalInsider, the album sold 720 units in its first week. A lyric videos was released for the song "Holographic Principle II: Convergence" on January 20, 2016. On March 14, 2016 the band debuted a lyric video for the song "Deus Deceptor" through MetalSucks. The band made the album available for streaming in full on April 13, 2016. The band released a music video for the song "Deus Deceptor" on June 15, 2017. In a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Zenith Passage
The Zenith Passage is an American technical death metal band from Los Angeles, California founded in 2012. They are currently signed to Unique Leader Records. To date they have released one EP, Cosmic Dissonance, and one LP, Solipsist. They are closely linked with fellow Los Angeles metal band The Faceless. The Zenith Passage's Justin McKinney joined The Faceless to play guitar in 2015, replacing Wes Hauch, who had played on The Zenith Passage's debut album. Derek "Demon Carcass" Rydquist and Brandon Giffin, who had played on The Faceless's album '' Planetary Duality'', joined The Zenith Passage in 2021. The band went on tour as part of MetalSucks Devastation of the Nation tour, supporting Cryptopsy and Decrepit Birth. History The Zenith Passage started in 2012 as collaboration between friends Justin McKinney and Greg Hampton. After releasing a one track demo in February 2012, the band released their debut EP ''Cosmic Dissonance'' on January 29, 2013. The band signed a mult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technical Death Metal
Technical death metal (also referred to as tech-death) is a musical subgenre of death metal that began and developed in the early- to mid-1990s, with particular focus on challenging, demanding instrumental skill and complex songwriting. Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late 1980s and early 1990s by four bands that are often grouped together as "technical death metal's Big Four" – Death, Pestilence, Atheist, and Cynic – as well as Nocturnus; all but Pestilence being part of the Florida death metal scene. Some of the distinct features of this genre include dynamic song structures, complex and atypical rhythmic structures, abundant use of diminished chords and arpeggios, frequent employment of odd time chord progressions, and constant use of string skipping on the guitars. Bass lines are usually complex, and the drums are extremely fast-paced with abundant use of blast beats and other extreme drumming techniques. The technical death metal genre has al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |