ADDITIONAL AUTISTIC INFODUMP BONUS DOUBLE-POST lol AND ALSO A QUESTION???
soooooo if like tech/progressive thrash, you should really also peep
Tourniquet, another band underrated bc of their christian nature imo (much more overt in their lyrics but so talented musically):
"Gazing At Medusa" (ft. solo from Chris Poland):
https://youtu.be/x6oD01gzp70i especially love their signature riff pattern at the 2:02 mark, which i dont know if that kind of riff has a musical name but they do it a lot and it's always so cool to me. Another example (time-stamped):
- "Perfect Night For A Hanging"
https://youtu.be/r298kgdQmCk?t=158lastly -- RIP to Tourniquet's late drummer/band leader Ted Kirkpatrick, who died unexpectedly a few months back -- incredible drummer who also wrote basically all of the bands guitar parts as well...
back when DT was holding auditions in 2010 I really wanted Kirkpatrick to get a shot at it (not that he would have even been interested necessarily), but he def had the technical skills to hang in DT and would have been a really interesting addition bc of his neoclassical tech-thrash style
*peep instrumentals like "Viento Borrascoso (Devastating Wind)" and "Immunity Vector" if you'd like to gauge for yourself how good and also innovative of a drummer he was:
https://youtu.be/egbhTXgqOzE?t=19https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEY_0fNGwwganyways thanks for coming to my autistic infodump / "TED" talk (lol pun somewhat intended)