![]() ![]() But that length of time is a tall order for a relatively young death metal band to sustain, and though songs like “Swarm” and “Of Omnipotence” bring ideas to the plate that are new even for a band this adventurous, the material across Apus is spotty. The Schoenberg Automaton make a habit out of such excellent but unexpected passages, and their uneven distribution across Apus keeps the album rolling along even across thirteen songs and over fifty minutes. Hot off the heels of “Year Zero,” the song’s midsection is replete with tricky stop-start riffing and angular leads, but the band really bring the heat at 2:40, when the song plunges into an intense melodic bridge that’s easily the highlight of the first few tracks. Had the sophomore slump stymied their songs? Yet early-release tracks from Apus had me worried that the band had abandoned just what made their previous releases so interesting and vital. The Brisbane-cum-Vancouver-based technical death metal outfit caught my eye with their first EP and took off in 2013 with Vela, which built on their progressive and extreme roots, expanding their unique and abstract sound quite successfully. Complex riffs, odd time signature changes, insane drum patterns nothing was too difficult to execute live and the band easily became one of my favourites of the night.After three years plagued by seemingly perpetual setbacks, The Schoenberg Automaton’s second full-length Apus has finally made the journey from a studio in Australia to my speakers in Chicago. "TSA were like pit-bulls straight out of the gate they wasted no time and were absolutely brutal from start to finish. ![]() (No rating given) – No Clean Singing, February 9, 2013 This is the kind of adventurous genre-fusing metal that gives me hope for the future: good musicians with good ideas making phenomenal music." "I could say a lot about Vela, but ultimately music this intense and different needs to be heard explaining what they do still wouldn’t prepare you for how well thought-out, eerie, and dominating The Schoenberg Automaton are. (4/5) – Heavy Blog is Heavy, 21 January 2013 Make no mistake, The Schoenberg Automaton will be a force to be reckoned with out of the already impressive Australian metal scene if their first offering already hits this hard." While their myriad of influences are shown on their sleeves - the trudging stutterred riffs of Gojira, the schizophrenic chaos of early Dillinger Escape Plan, and the forward-thinking technical battery of Between the Buried and Me are all plain as day - their sound wears more like a continued step in the genre lineage rather than shameless mimicry. "Rising Australia stars The Schoenberg Automaton eschew trends with their debut album Vela. (8/10) – Kill Your Stereo, 1 February 2013 ‘Vela’ gets progressively better and Australia has another band to parade to the internationals that have been lauded over us for so long." You keep expecting a letdown and it simply doesn’t come. The music is dense, the vocals deep and everything else fits accordingly. It almost feels like we’ve stepped back to The Red Chord’s ‘Clients’ heydays. "Who needs Europe when some of the most polished, articulate and carefully crafted metal now resides in our own backyard? ‘Vela’ is crushing from the get go. With the upcoming 2014 release of their highly anticipated sophomore album, TSA are ready to step it up a notch and compete on the world stage with a brand new set of savage and original compositions. ![]() TSA have built a reputation as a ferocious and calculated live act, performing alongside several world-class notaries including Animals as Leaders, Between the Buried and Me, Born Of Osiris, Psycroptic, Veil of Maya, King Parrot, Ne Obliviscaris, Fleshgod Apocalypse and appearing at Australia’s iconic Soundwave festival as winners of Triple J Unearthed. With a sound that’s unmistakeable yet hard to pin down, TSA made a big impact on the Australian metal scene with a debut EP in 2011 that generated a lot of hype for the critically acclaimed release of Vela in 2013. The Schoenberg Automaton (TSA) are a mouthful and an earful of mind-bending technical death metal. ![]() 4 x The Schoenberg Automaton - The Woodhouse Sakati SyndromeĤ x The Schoenberg Automaton - Where Are We, in a Cube?Ĥ x The Schoenberg Automaton - All Roads Lead to RomeĤ x The Schoenberg Automaton - A Stone Face of Piety ![]()
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