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A playlist containing my favourite song off of each of my favourite modern prog rock/metal albums.

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Native Construct

metal and rock

HAKEN - Deathless. Taken from 'Visions'. Sensory Records 2011.

Check out HAKEN on their upcoming tour:

Haken, Leprous and Maschine:
(Presented by Prog Magazine)
23rd October, 2014 – London, The Garage
24th October, 2014 – Leamington Spa, Assembly
26th October, 2014 – Bristol, The Fleece
27th October, 2014 – Wolverhampton, Robin 2
29th October, 2014 – Dublin, The Village
30th October, 2014 – Liverpool, O2 Academy 2
31st October, 2014 – Manchester, Club Academy
1st November, 2014 – Edinburgh, The Liquid Room
2nd November, 2014 – York, The Duchess

Deathless

HAKEN - Falling Back To Earth. Taken from 'The Mountain'. InsideOut Music 2013.

Check out HAKEN on their upcoming tour:

Haken, Leprous and Maschine:
(Presented by Prog Magazine)
23rd October, 2014 – London, The Garage
24th October, 2014 – Leamington Spa, Assembly
26th October, 2014 – Bristol, The Fleece
27th October, 2014 – Wolverhampton, Robin 2
29th October, 2014 – Dublin, The Village
30th October, 2014 – Liverpool, O2 Academy 2
31st October, 2014 – Manchester, Club Academy
1st November, 2014 – Edinburgh, The Liquid Room
2nd November, 2014 – York, The Duchess

Falling Back To Earth

4th Installment of the Wish Upon A Blackstar Series.

Available at www.fixtstore.com/celldweller

Wish Upon A Blackstar

Gift For You

Taken from the album "The Congregation". Inside Out Music 2015.

LEPROUS -  Rewind

Rareform

Ometh

Weather Systems

The Storm Before The Calm

Animals as Leaders

On Impulse

Transcendence

Stars

Quiet World

Your Familiar Face

Mute

The Spark of the Archon

Come Hell or High Water

Passage

The Courage of Others

Core of Nature

PRO MOTION and Farhad Humayun are proud to annouce The Decade Brothers as the winners of the "Give In" Remix Competition!

Farhad Humayun - Give In (Decade Brothers Remix)

Morningrise

To Bid You Farewell

The Observer 

These Aren't Mirages

Quiet World (Instrumental Version)

Passage (Instrumental Version)

The Spark of the Archon (Instrumental Version)

Mute (Instrumental Version)

Chromatic Aberration (Instrumental Version)

Come Hell or High Water (Instrumental Version)

The Forest Seasons

Eternal Darkness (Autumn)

Rivers of Nihil "The Silent Life" from the album "Where Owls Know My Name"

Where Owls Know My Name

Rivers of Nihil "The Silent Life"

Antimatter - Fighting For A Lost Cause

Promised Land

Someone Else? (Remastered)

Hour of the Nightingale

My Requiem

You Are Creating: Limb1

Sum of Parts

Robert Edens: Vocals
Myles Yang: Guitar
Max Harchik: Bass

Native Construct is the product of collaboration between several students that began in 2011 at the storied Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Fueled by a desire to breathe new life into the modern metal genre, Native Construct artfully blends a wide spectrum of compositional influences, ranging from classical all the way to prog metal and musical theatre. The result is a wonderfully unique sonic texture, made up of extended-range guitars, theatrical vocals, and a full complement of symphonic instrumentation. Guitarist and composer Myles Yang’s passion for innovation, coupled with his extensive academic study of arranging and compositional techniques, makes Native Construct a truly distinctive up-and-coming metal act.

In 2014, the band’s music caught the ear of Brian Slagel at Metal Blade Records, and led to a recording contract and a worldwide release of the band’s debut album, Quiet World. The album promises to be a rich, vibrant, and aurally engaging musical experience. While following a musically programmatic approach to its storytelling, the album demonstrates a fascinating unification of numerous musical styles and provides an emotional journey through the vast and imaginative world Native Construct have envisioned.

Quiet World was largely self-produced and written between 2011 and 2013 in between the individual band members’ studies at the Berklee College of Music. What began as jam sessions simply for fun eventually turned into a full-fledged musical endeavor. All tracking and programming was done at the band’s home studios in Boston, MA, with the exception of vocals, which were recorded with Jamie King at The Basement Studios in Winston-Salem, NC. The album was mixed by Rich Mouser at The Mouse House Studio in Los Angeles, CA, and mastered by Jamie King.

A brief listen to Quiet World is enough to make it apparent that there is a concept, here. Though it’s best to let the band explain the album in their own words: “Quiet World is about a guy who loves a girl. The guy is a bit of an odd and eccentric person – an outcast. He’s also a mute, and a little unstable, as it turns out. The girl doesn’t return his feelings, but he can’t bring himself to let go. As his unrequited passion for her devolves into obsession and eventual resentment, his mind begins to slip further and further away. He convinces himself that he can’t be loved because of his condition and abnormalities. So he decides to create for himself a new, fantastic world of which he has complete control – a world where there are no oddballs or outcasts. A world where everyone is surrounded by people who are just like themselves: a much quieter world.

“It’s at this point that the first track of the album, “Mute,” begins. And it turns out that many of the subjects of his new world are not as content living this way as he is. In the second track we see a new character, the Archon, rise up and unite his people in the clouds with the once distant people in the sea. He leads an opposition to “Sinister Silence,” as the people come to call him. The rest of the album unfolds with events within the “Quiet World” and manifestations of the enduring struggle between the Archon and Sinister Silence. The lone exception is track number four, “Your Familiar Face,” which steps out of this world for a moment to give a closer look at the events prior to the first track and the tragedy of Sinister Silence.“

What is impressive about Native Construct is not necessarily an involved concept on a debut record, it’s that they wrote, produced, and recorded the album while balancing school work and on a college student budget. It’s the epitome of “self produced.” And what Native Construct wants fans to know is that “the composition process for this album was intensely meticulous from top to bottom. Each note, each lyric, each twist and each turn were arrived at with the utmost care. As such, we were able to weave rich, often subtle layers of meaning into the music and text. We’re very excited for you all to experience the result of our efforts!”