Anomaly

A friend of ours has done an animation based on our Preface track. I think it is very well done, and fits the mood of the music perfectly. Enjoy it:

??? I could have sworn I commented here already.  I guess I didn't, so here I go.

I liked your Preface, and I can see how it would make a good gig opener.  I like the bass line best of anything in the song, I'm not sure why.  Everything is played very well, the bass just stands out to me in parts.  I feel like the chord progression keeps frustrating me, though, like I want it to go somewhere else or change to yank me around a bit, and it doesn't. 

While your track snippet is good and I like it, at the same time I think it is missing a little something.  Maybe it almost sounds too much like Opeth to me?  Or maybe it's that I like it, I don't find anything wrong with it at all, but at the same time it doesn't make me go, 'Oooh wow, I can't wait to hear the rest.'  I wish I knew why, so I could be more helpful, but I don't yet.  It might come to me with more listens!   EDIT: I just listened again, and Ah-ha!  I think I figured it out.  I suspect it is just the recording quality for the snare drum combined with lack of double-bass pedal (at least that I can hear in the recording).  So it's not the song itself at all.

Any chance of hearing some more track snippets soon?


Edited by StarsongAgeless - May 25 2007 at 00:49

Metalstrm wrote: Yeah the opener is quite a bit technical, but there are quite some laidback sections don't worry.   Edit: Just looked up the other bands... I knew there was a band called Anomaly somewhere, just didn't know two of them were actually prog metal. Damn, the band's been called Anomaly for 6 years now...

Then you've lasted much longer than the other two anomalies ... fingers crossed!

Yeah the opener is quite a bit technical, but there are quite some laidback sections don't worry.

Edited by Metalstrm - May 23 2007 at 06:32

I'd like to point out that the sound of the instruments in that snippet is nowhere near the quality we are aiming at. It was recorded with a couple of mics and one guitar is completely washed out in reverb. Just to get an idea though... :)

We are a progressive metal band in the vein of Opeth, hailing from Malta. We haven't got many mp3's yet to upload, but we have recorded a music loop for our website which you can find in our myspace, website, or my esnips for best quality. This musical idea, which we called Preface, is a sort of spacey almost psychadelic kind of thing, definitely not metal, but we think we might use it as a gig opener.

Edited by Metalstrm - May 22 2007 at 19:04