While March 22nd is looking to be the busiest day of the year in terms of quality and talent being unleashed in the Metalverse, March 8th will also see the return of one particular talented group of musicians and their third full length album, which is sure to exude album of the year potential.
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Label: eOne
Genre: Progressive Metal / Metalcore
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Previous Releases: Nocturne (2006); Midheaven (2008)
The Human Abstract are a six member Progressive Metal outfit hailing from Los Angeles, California.
I was originally introduced to THA by a couple friends of mine over two years ago and was greatly impressed with their debut album Nocturne. Their sound was intriguingly unique, with a style incorporating classical technique, powerful riffs and the intricately played, elegant, and melodic guitar solos and sweeps of co-founder, and guitarist A.J. Minette.
In 2008, Minette left THA to pursue his own musical interests outside the realm of metal, leading to the addition of Andrew Tapley to the group prior to recording their sophomore release, Midheaven.
Midheaven was a departure from the original sound of the group and to this day has left many fans split. The departure of Minette and changes to the overall musical style of the group created a second album which had clear differences in focus, in comparison with the powerful debut album Nocturne. Much less heavy than its predecessor, it also did not present the same type of flair that many fans adored from their debut, and were expecting in their follow-up.
Regardless of which side of the fence fans may have found themselves on following the release of Midheaven, there was a piece of news let loose which reunited nearly every fan of the group.
In April of 2010 it was announced that A.J. Minette had officially returned to The Human Abstract, after the band had begun co-writing some new material together in late 2009. This news coincided quite closely with the news that they had found a new vocalist in Travis Richter.
On October 1st, 2010, The Human Abstract released a short video of studio sessions for their next album, Digital Veil. And again on November 12th released a two minute song sampler from the album, which most likely attracted the attention of every THA fan in existence, and every newest fan they've made since. This first song sampler gave an insight into the reinvigorated effort, showing off a sound eerily reminiscent and even more powerful than that of Nocturne.
Since then, The Human Abstract have released two songs to their legion of fans: Faust in mid November and most recently (today actually) Patterns. They announced just last week that they have signed with E1 Music and that Digital Veil will be officially released on March 8th, 2011.
This is a release that I've been anticipating for months, so the announcement of an official release date was more than welcome news - for me and many of my friends, and pretty much every other god damned THA fan on the planet.
The Human Abstract are currently busy being just plain awesome, but will be kicking off the Atticus Metal III tour in support of Darkest Hour and Born of Osiris on February 25th, just a week and a half before Digital Veil crash lands into a stereo near you.
And of course, if you're unfamiliar with The Human Abstract, you can check them out on their MySpace at: http://www.myspace.com/thehumanabstract. Or you track their updates on their Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/thehumanabstract, or on Twitter by following @humanabstract.
Last but not least, here's a taste of Digital Veil, in the form of the first single from the album, Faust:
Mark your calendars, because on March 8th, The Human Abstract is back.
- J
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