Palimpsest

by Protest the Hero

Palimpsest cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 18 June 2020
  • Label: Spinefarm
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 52:33
  • Community rating: 3.71/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Luke Hoskin, Michael Ieradi, Rody Walker, Simon Grove, Anthony Kalabretta, Cam McLellan, Millen Petzelt-Sorace, Dean Hadjichristou, Derya Nagle, Tim Millar

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Canadian progressive metal veterans return with a highly conceptual album focused heavily on the forgotten and often grim realities of American history. Rody Walker delivers some of his most impressive vocal performances following severe vocal cord damage, soaring over dizzying, hyper-technical guitar riffing and sweeping orchestral arrangements. It was celebrated as a masterful, politically sharp return to form.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, technical, conscious, history, complex, uncommon-time-signatures, political, progressive, virtuosic, polyrhythmic, dynamic

Tracklist

  1. The Migrant Mother (3:50)
  2. The Canary (4:27)
  3. From The Sky (6:14)
  4. Harborside - Interlude (1:01)
  5. All Hands (4:40)
  6. The Fireside (5:03)
  7. Soliloquy (4:30)
  8. Reverie (5:26)
  9. Little Snakes (4:56)
  10. Mountainside - Interlude (1:11)
  11. Gardenias (4:57)
  12. Hillside - Interlude (0:39)
  13. Rivet (5:35)

Credits

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