FOUR RE-IMAGINED TRACKS FROM 2015’S POLARIS BY TESSERACT
Errai features four re-worked tracks from the band’s critically acclaimed 2015 studio album Polaris – “Survival”, “Cages”, “Tourniquet” and “Seven Names”. The tracks have been re-imagined by the band’s long time live producer and sound engineer Aidan O’Brien.
TesseracT vocalist Dan Tompkins comments “It's been fantastic to re-visit & re-work the vocals to some of the Polaris tracks from a different angle and with the benefit of time and space. The normal process of writing TesseracT songs starts with the creation of the music followed by the lyrical content; this time Acle and Aidan have stripped away the music and re-created the songs based around the vocals. As a result this has allowed much more breathing space between both and also highlighted much more detail in the performance"
Along with the new song interpretations, the cover art for Errai sees the Polaris artwork having a 2016 make-over by artist Dan Mumford.
Press comments on Polaris:
"Polaris is, at last, the platonic ideal of a TesseracT album, the one where they get everything just right. It’s drama-bringing, supremely melodic and riff-heavy." Revolver Magazine
"keeps impressing with every release, going with different ideas and compositions while still keeping their identity” – Outburn Magazine
"is best defined as a sum of the group's polished production smoothly colliding with an offensive onslaught of vocal and instrumentation virtuosity." - Metal Injection
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released January 1, 2016
