Tandjent
Brutally raw Prgressive Metal from Midwestern USA. Tandjent is heavily guitar driven and in-your-face with mind-bending rhythms that thrash, crush and groove.
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Gasoline Finger Gasoline Finger
Explosive first track from the No One Will Hear Us album. Inspired by a very bad smell.
Human Antidote Human Antidote
This song definitely has one of the most crushing riffs on the whole album.
No Question No Question
'There is no question' that the ending of this song kicks ass haha.
The Great Machine The Great Machine
Paralyzed Paralyzed
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It's certainly fair to say Meshuggah's popularity has gone far beyond imitation, they seem to have started their own genre of music. I know the term "math metal" has been thrown around a lot, but whatever you call it, the band really started something, and Tandjent are right there in the fray. So yes, they do sound a lot like Meshuggah, from the super heavy guitar tone to the odd time signature start-stop riffs and the drummer doing straight 4 / 4 time over top. But damn these songs are good. I mean, it helps that the production is mindbendingly brutal and professional, but the riffs are just fantastic as well. And just when you think you have them categorized, they do something a bit different, like track 3, 'No Question' has the tonal qualities of Meshuggah, but with a groovy riff that's far more Pantera and by the final note of the song you want to skip back and hear it again. Or the double kick part at the beginning of 'Paralyzed' (Meshuggah haven't used straight doublebass in their music for years and years). Or the anthemic quality of the opening to 'I Remain' followed again by a great groovy riff. Songs like these are what push the band away into their own territory. If Tandjent decides to release more cds in the future, these songs have the originality that I hope they expand on. It's tough to imagine "No One Will Hear Us" has been in production for the past 4 years, usually you'd expect a big variation in the song styles and recording quality, but this album is just so consistent. And would you believe the drums are programmed? Perhaps not after hearing this cd, this has to be the most natural sounding drum machine I've ever heard. Top it all off with some seriously shredding guitar leads that hearken back to the days when a solo had something to say instead of just extra texture on top of the rhythm. Stupendous and spectacular, this album is an absolute must buy.
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-Neil Blevins (Soul Killer Webzine)Band/artist history
The seed of Tandjent was formed in the years around 1999-2001, not long after Tim Stevenson graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and returned home to Illinois. Many of the guitar riffs that would eventually become the songs for the first album, "No One Will Hear Us", originated at this time with help from co-guitarist and long time friend, Sundance Martin.
It wasn't until late 2001 that production of the album began in earnest. The band felt it necessary to keep total artistic control over the entire production from start to finish ensuring the highest quality. Tim's house quicky transformed into Tandjent Studios as all instruments began to be tracked. The album would go on to be painstakingly recorded, mixed and mastered all by Tim.
Constant hardware and software upgrades led to a slow metamorphosis of the Tandjent sound while the riffs and song structures went through numerous revisions as well. Throughout it all, for every step back there were two steps forward and every success seemed to merely create a higher standard.
After 3 long years of hard work, Tandjent's debut album, "No One Will Hear Us", is complete and is ready to unleash brutally raw Progressive Metal unto the general populous.Your musical influences
Meshuggah, Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects, Pantera, Prong, Cynic, Death, Entombed, Megadeth, Rush, King's X, Strapping Young Lad, Devin Townsend, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Vai, Satriani, King Crimson, Dream Theater, Fear FactoryWhat equipment do you use?
Mesa/Boogie Amplifiers, Ibanez 7-string guitars.Contact
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