Notes & Personnel Info |
 | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. The Enhanced portion includes a music video for "Astounded." |
| Tantric: Hugo Ferreira (vocals); Todd Whitener (guitar); Jesse Vest (bass); Matt Taul (drums). |
| Principally recorded at Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, California. |
| This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. |
| Personnel: Hugo Ferreira (vocals); Todd Whitener (guitar); Matt Taul (drums). |
| Audio Mixer: Toby Wright. |
| Recording information: Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, CA. |
| Photographer: Dennis Keeley. |
| What do you do when the driving creative force behind your band turns out to be a raging egomaniac? Worse, that raging egomaniac thinks he's some sort of new rock god, channeling Jim Morrison in all his blustery, pretentious, Lizard King glory? Well, if you're Days of the New, you get a new singer and regroup after you're dismissed by your former boss and pretty much play the same sluggish snooze-rock as your old band. Hence, Tantric. ~ Michael Gallucci |
| If this music sounds familiar, it should. Three of the musicians here were formerly members of post-grunge kings Days Of The New and here, joined by new lead singer Hugo Ferreira, they've basically recreated the Days' sound. |
| Ferreira has a low baritone that mostly recalls Jim Morrison in full Lizard King roar, but he also has a lower register growl that recalls Scott Weiland or James Hetfield. The band's instrumental approach depends on massed acoustic guitars overlaid with metallic electric riffs, close, double-tracked and surprisingly pretty vocal harmonies, and a straightforward rhythm section pounding out a monster groove. It's a formula, in other words, that positions them on the historical continuum beginning with Led Zeppelin and running through Pearl Jam and beyond. |
Producer: Toby Wright |
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