CONTEMPLATOR: Everything Is Noise Premieres âVestigialâ Video From Quebec-Based Progressive/Orchestral Post-Metal Act; Morphose Album Nears July Release Through Nefarious Industries

June 23, 2022 Infrared Magazine News, Press Releases Comments Off

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Everything Is Noise is hosting a new visualizer for âVestigial,â the new single from QuÃ©bec-based progressive/orchestral post-metal entity CONTEMPLATOR. The new track precedes the bandâs second album, Morphose, nearing July release through Nefarious Industries.

Morphose was composed, arranged, and produced by CONTEMPLATOR architect Christian Pacaud, the guitars and drums were recorded and engineered by Antoine Baril at Hemisphere Studio with bass and additional guitars recorded and engineered by Pacaud. The violin and viola were recorded and engineered by Jeff Ball, piano was recorded and engineered by Serges Samson at LARC, marxophone was recorded and engineered by David Lawrie at Ishikawa Media, and accordion was recorded and engineered by Austin Wintory. The entire album was reamped, mixed, and mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves, then completed with artwork by Is Mirek and layout/design by Greg Meisenberg.

With the new âVestigialâ single and visualizer, Pacaud reveals, ââVestigialâ was composed at a time when I was exploring ideas for solo bass compositions. Many sections were arranged over melodic and chordal bass lines, often taking this track away from riff-based structures into more ambient territories, thus creating many opportunities for sound design and dynamic guitar arrangements. The visuals for the video were designed by Vincent Fiset, a friend of mine and visual effects artist whom Iâve worked with in the video games industry, using Houdini, a software used to create procedural visual effects. The visuals for this video were generated from the audio stems of the track, then rendered to video.”

Everything Is Noise writes in part, âLetâs cut straight to the point here â ‘Vestigial’ is a fantastic piece of work full on intrigue. With many moving parts and creative changes of feel and pace, the track will do much more than hold your interest throughout its near-five-minute duration. The bass work of Pacaud here is outstanding, building a solid foundation for the track to grow around, at times feeling like the vocalist of the band… Do yourself a favor and get to know the band before Morphose makes its way into the world!â

Watch CONTEMPLATORâs âVestigialâ video first through Everything Is Noise now at THIS LOCATION.

Nefarious Industries will release Morphose digitally and in a limited run of vinyl which includes a full-color 12-page booklet on July 29th. Find preorders where the video for âZero Maskâ is playing HERE.

Watch for additional audio and video singles to be issued surrounding the release of Morphose.

CONTEMPLATOR is the vision of sole/core creator Christian Pacaud, former touring/live member of technical metal outfit Augury, joined by a wide cast of friends and peers to collaborate on his visions. The project was founded in 2011 with a goal of forming an outlet to create music without compromise, drawing from all his influences without regard for respecting genre boundaries.

With Pacaud handling the songwriting/composing of the songs, and providing bass, guitars, programming, and more, Antoine Guertin (Aeternam, Hillward) joined on drums in the time leading up to the creation of the outfitâs eponymous EP, which saw release in August of 2013. By the time CONTEMPLATOR was creating its first full-length, 2016âs Sonance, Pacaud had expanded the cast of musicians to include Antoine Baril (Augury, From Dying Suns) and Maxime Rochefort (From Dying Suns) on guitars, violin/viola from Jeff Ball (composer team for the Steven Universe movies and animated TV series), among other guest musicians.

The second CONTEMPLATOR album, Morphose, expands the lineup of guests even further, with accordion from Austin Wintory (Grammy-nominated composer known for scoring the popular video games Journey, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, and more), piano from Francis GrÃ©goire (Universe Effects, Carl Mayotte), and marxophone from David Lawrie (London After Midnight).