Zentraedi (USA): Prog Metal?

 

 

Stunning melodic Prog Metal!

 

I love it to bits!

 

Thank you very much indeed for this information!   I received no reply to my recent message to them via bandcamp, and I guess this explains why! However, I think you have given us enough here to create an acceptable resume to include as a (temporary at least) biography on their page on PA, but Thanos (aka aapatsos) will be the one to say yay or nay on that matter.

 

This is a damn fine album - to my ears at least - they should certainly have pushed it when it was first put together imo, but hey, better late than never eh? 

 

Thanks again for your help with this. Really appreciated!!

Hi, this is very unexpected ...but I'm really really glad to find out that there are people out there who are enjoying the music we made. It was admittedly self-indulgent material that was definitely not for everybody, but it was a tremendous labor of love. 

So here's the story, the band began forming around 2001 when Dave (the drummer) was in college; and the guitar player (Mojadev) was helping me and Jason (the bass player) and the drummer from our former band (Drench) record some tracks. By 2004 everyone in the group was headed different directions for work and school but we wanted to have some sort of record of what we did - and that's how Seven Medley Sins came about.

We recorded the project on an 18-track standalone recorder that we bought on e-bay for $600, and eventually mixed in Logic Studio8 because it was the only thing that I could afford that worked on my Macbook; my only piece of tech-gear. We recorded the instruments at different times at each of the player's homes around 2004-2005. I was living in another state at the time so I went down to Texas a couple of times in 2006 to do the vocals and keys at Jason's house. It was some time shortly after that that we finally finished mixing it. We didn't actually spend years recording and mixing the 'album', it just took a number of long dry spells between takes and mixing to get it done. 

I'm not sure about what Dave's up to now but I do know that Mojadev is still making music; some crazy-cool 'fusion' stuff. As for me, I haven't worked on anything new for some time. However I have started working on mixing a Drench project from 1996 digital tapes that were discovered recently; and I'm getting some help from our old drummer (D), who also mastered  Seven Medley Sins for us - and it was through D that I/we inadvertently discovered this site.

As for other future music projects, I think I've got another album in me.

And I see Chad's on here too ...which is awesome! He's a great kindred prog-music spirit I met after working on Seven Medley Sins and moving out of state for school.