Kscope Records, the home of all things progressive rock and metal have announced the signing of UK prog stalwarts TesseracT. The signing makes sense for both label and the band as a new album has been announced, aiming for a 2015 release. TesseracT has recently welcomed back Dan Tompkins, who was part of their acclaimed debut One in 2011. The band started a co-headlining tour of Europe a few days ago with Animals As Leaders, where fans can catch the band with Tompkins back in action.
From The Press Release:
KSCOPE is thrilled to announce that, the UK’s masters of modern progressive heaviness, TesseracT are joining the Kscope family.
Amos Williams TesseracT bass player comments on the signing .“Really looking forward to discovering the possibilities of working with such a creative label. We admire everything Kscope’s done with bands like Anathema, Katatonia and Steven Wilson, and can’t wait to see where they will guide TesseracT in this new chapter of the band. Very excited!”
Over the course of the last six years, TesseracT have been at the forefront of flourishing part of the ever-evolving metal scene. Originally formed as a studio project by guitarist Acle Kahney, TesseracT immediately eschewed all well-established notions of what metal should sound like and swiftly became a unique and daring entity. Acle had recruited a line-up worthy of his groundbreaking compositions and the band embarked upon a quest to inject some originality and excitement back into an often myopic and lazy British metal scene. The longstanding line up of drummer Jay Postones, guitarist James Monteith, bassist Amos Williams have recently welcomed back vocalist Dan Tompkins, whose first show back with the band was on the main stage at this year’s UK Sonisphere Festival.
TesseracT’s debut album ‘One’ in 2011, featuring Dan Tompkins on vocals, received widespread critical acclaim, not least due to the album’s staggering six-part centrepiece ‘Concealing Fate’, which brilliantly showcased the band’s pioneering sonic approach and unstoppable arsenal of off-kilter riffs, soaring melodies and disorientating atmospherics. The primarily acoustic ‘Perspective’ EP emerged in May 2012 to an effusive response from critics and fans alike and shortly after, their status as progressive metal’s most fascinating new creative force was very publicly celebrated when TesseracT picked up the Best New Band trophy at 2012’s inaugural Progressive Music Awards in London. Not wasting any time the band released their second album ‘Altered State’ in early 2013 again to worldwide media acclaim.
The band have already found a new creative energy having reunited with Singer Dan Tompkins and have already written half of their third album, the follow up to ‘Altered State’ and is slated for a 2015 release
Fan’s can experience the band’s thrilling live shows across Europe from today as they begin an extensive tour with co-headliners Animals As Leaders
30/09 NL – Zoetermeer – De Boerderij – SOLD OUT
01/10 DE – Hamburg – LOGO
02/10 DE – Cologne – EUROBLAST FESTIVAL 2014 – X
05/10 NO – Oslo – John Dee
06/10 SWE – Gothenburg – Fangelset – SOLD OUT
07/10 DEK – Indre By – Pumpehuset
08/10 DE – Berlin – SO36
09/10 PL – Warsaw – Proxima
10/10 PL – Krakow – Fabryka
11/10 HU – Budapest – A38 – SOLD OUT
12/10 CZ – Prague – Rock Cafe
13/10 DE – Munich – Backstage Halle
14/10 DE – Ludwigsburg – Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg
15/10 AU – Bezirk-Simmering – Szene Wien
16/10 CH – Aarau – Kiff
17/10 IT – Roncade – New Age
18/10 IT – Roma – Traffic Club
19/10 IT – Sesia – R’N’R Arena
20/10 CH – Geneve – USINE
21/10 FR – Luynes – Le Korigan
22/10 FR – – Rillieux La Pape – MJC Ô Totem
23/10 FR – Nimes – Paloma
24/10 FR – Bordeaux – Bootleg
25/10 FR – Nantes – Ferrailleur – SOLD OUT
26/10 FR _ Paris – Damage Festival
27/10 FR – Strasbourg – La Laiterie
28/10 DE – Mannheim – Alte Seilerei
29/10 DE – Jena – F-Haus
30/10 DE – Hannover – Musikzentrum
31/10 DE – Osnabruk – Kleine Freiheit
01/11 BE – Brussels – AB Club – SOLD OUT
02/11 NL – Nijmegen – Doornroosje
03/11 UK – Southampton – Talking Heads
04/11 UK – Birmingham – O2 Academy Birmingham
05/11 UK – Manchester Sound Control
06/11 UK – London Scala – SOLD OUT
07/11 UK – Glasgow – Cathouse
08/11 UK – Nottingham – Rescue Rooms
09/11 UK – Bristol – Thekla
Plus headline shows in Russia
15/11 – RU – St Petersburg – Club Zal
16/11 – RU – Moscow – Volta