TESSERACT — One (review)

TESSERACT — One album cover Album · 2011 · Progressive Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Time Signature
The impossible...

Genre: djent

Whether you accept it as a genre or not, and whether you like it or not, djent has become a salient part of modern progressive metal. British metallers TesseracT have embraced djent to the fullest on this their debut-album.

The djent character of "One" is very clear in the many very rhythmically complex riffs and strange time signatures. The five Brits take a general experimental and progressive approach to their music and make use of complex song structures, atmospheric keyboards and guitar effects (they do use include frequent clean guitars on top of heavy and distorted guitar riffage) and very fluid vocals. But TesseracT's compositions are not just complex and technically advanced; there is also a lot of feel to this release, and TesseracT manage to express emotions, like melancholy, while performing very technical music.

Due to the atmospheric elements and fluid melodies, the tracks on this album are not exactly catchy, and some listeners might not find this feature appealing (I like it though). However, I think that the many quirky rhythms and odd riffs will have an attractive effect on those who have a penchant for musical quirkiness.

The vocals blend emo-screaming and clean singing in. Especially the clean fluid vocals go well with the musical aesthetics on the album, but some raw and rock-ish vocals might also have contributed positively to the album.

There is plenty of variety and interesting detail in every track, especially in the drumming and guitar figures, and the song structures. It does, however, require a good handful of listens to be able to appreciate this aspect of the album.

This is a really interesting album the should appeal to fans of progressive metal and fans of djent. It is certainly a technically impressive, and expressive, album that will appeal to fans of more complex metal.
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Wilytank wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I'm not saying it's bad either, but when I listen to an album with that style, it gets old really fast.
J-Man wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I'm with Kim on this one. Djent may not typically be a favorite of mine, but I don't see anything inherently wrong with it.
Time Signature wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I have no problems with onomatopoeic words being used as genre labels, and, to be honest, I don't really see the problem in the similarities between djent and dubstep.
Doomster wrote:
more than 2 years ago
"Djent? Maybe we should start calling doom metal 'DUNNN'." - Rosetta
Wilytank wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Seriously, if you take that "wobble wobble" slow part in a dubstep song and played it with guitars, you get any djent song.
Time Signature wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Thankfully, I'm too old to be offended by the djentstep-thing.
Doomster wrote:
more than 2 years ago
"Someone review TesseracT.

Um, for no particular reason (geek)"
Wilytank wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Great, more djentstep.

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