THE WAR WITHIN

“We finally feel like we’ve reached that peak TesseracT sound,” declares Daniel Tompkins. As leading lights of the British prog metal scene, TesseracT return with an album that’s equal parts introspection and unfettered ambition. So is War Of Being their most progressive work yet? Bassist Amos Williams and vocalist Tompkins tell Prog about the grand concepts behind it.

David West

When your band haven’t released a studio album for five years, it feels like a very bold statement to return with an 11-minute prog metal epic. If that wasn’t sufficiently daring, TesseracT’s War Of Being – the title track from their upcoming album – is accompanied by a high-concept video in which the idea of inner struggle is expressed through a futuristic samurai battling their doppelgänger. It’s nothing if not a gamble. “Every band must have those discussions: what’s going to be the most successful song to release first?” says frontman Daniel Tompkins. “The last album [2018’s Sonder] was relatively short for us. I felt like I’d seen enough feedback to know people were left a little bit dissatisfied, so I thought it would be a real unexpected thing to…

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