Animals as Leaders (Album)

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Animals as Leaders
Animals as Leaders studio album

Publication
(s)

2009

admission

2008

Label (s) Prosthetic Records

Title (number)

12

running time

52:00

occupation
chronology
- Animals as Leaders Weightless
(2011)

Animals as Leaders is the debut album of the progressive metal band of the same name by Tosin Abasi. It was released on Prosthetic Records in 2009 .

Creation and publication

After the end of his metalcore band Reflux , Abasi was encouraged to write a solo album by Prosthetic Records. After initially rejecting the offer, he recorded guitar and bass himself for the project in 2008 and had keyboards and drums programmed by Misha Mansoor ( Periphery ). Animals as Leaders was released in April 2009 and was also released on double LP in 2011 with 3D artwork and bonus title.

Track list

  1. Tempting Time - 5:23
  2. Soraya - 4:27
  3. Thoroughly at Home - 4:02
  4. On Impulse - 6:09
  5. Tessitura - 1:06
  6. Behaving Badly - 4:26
  7. The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing - 5:32
  8. CAFO - 6:41
  9. Inamorata - 6:08
  10. Point to Point - 1:44
  11. Modern Meat - 2:06
  12. Song of Solomon - 4:16
Bonus title
  2. Wave of Babies - 5:29

style

Animals as Leaders play instrumental progressive metal on the album , which is dominated by Abasi's virtuoso and varied guitar playing. He covers "the bandwidth between undistorted, Latin- like string plucking, lively, fast solos and brutal riffs almost completely". Occasionally, some keyboard effects are used and the rhythms are complexly programmed. Influences from Djent , Space Rock , Jazz and Electronic Music are noticeable; comparisons are made with Meshuggah , Cynic , Pelican , Liquid Tension Experiment , Steve Vai and Joe Satriani .

reception

The album was largely positively received by the press. Mike Borrink from Rock Hard says: “What Abasi conjures up on his seven or eight strings is really fantastic, but the album remains largely emotionless, although pleasing melodies are interspersed again and again.” Also with Kai Lorenz Kruppa from Babyblauen Seiten Therefore, the album leaves “an ambivalent impression”, but Nik Brückner praises: “Above all, it is the omnipresent intelligence of the musicians involved that inspires you so much when you listen. Nothing is neglected here at the expense of other elements: virtuosity has its place, but also melody and taste. ”The eclipsed magazine included Animals as Leaders in its list of prog metal milestones.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bobby Allyn: Q&A: Animals as Leaders , washingtoncitypaper.com , accessed December 29, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Animals As Leaders. Animals As Leaders , Baby Blue Pages , accessed December 29, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Mike Borrink: Animals As Leaders. Animals As Leaders , Rock Hard # 267, accessed December 29, 2012.
  4. ^ Eduardo Rivadavia: Animals as Leaders at Allmusic , accessed on December 29, 2012.
  5. ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 31.