Last Chance To Reason

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Album: Level 2

Released: Apr 12, 2011

Label: Prosthetic

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Genre: Experimental / Metal / Progressive
Location Augusta, Maine, Un
Profile Views: 352935
Last Login: 6/24/2011
Member Since 1/13/2006
Record Label Prosthetic Records
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Since 2005, Maine’s Last Chance to Reason has been an ever-evolving musical force with one goal: to make challenging progressive music that moves people. After 2 releases and countless diy tours, Last Chance to Reason has completed their most ambitious work to date, their Prosthetic Records debut “Level 2.” Teaming up with producer Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me, The Human Abstract), the band set out to create a modern take on the classic progressive concept album. Drawing influence from 70’s prog of King Crimson and Yes, composers Steve Reich and Schoenberg as well as prog-metal masters Opeth, Dream Theater and Cynic, LCTR’s “Level 2” takes the band in awe-inspiring new directions. Set in a Tron-like virtual world, the album’s concept revolves around the relationship between man and technology, our move to from physical reality to virtual spaces and what these changes mean to our lives and our art. The lyrics are expressed from the point of view of an artificial intelligence facing the violent reality of a videogame world. Not content to simply release the piece as a musical endeavor, LCTR has teamed up with acclaimed indie developer Tom Vine and pixel artist Francis Coulombe to create a fully interactive version of the album in which the story unfolds through LCTR’s thematic riffs, stirring vocal hooks and progressive virtuosity while the player blasts his way through viscous gameplay inspired by classics such as R-Type, Contra, and Super Metroid.
Members
Evan Sammons - Drums, Michael Lessard - Vocals, Brian Palmer - Keys & Synth, AJ Harvey - Guitar, Tom Waterhouse- Guitar, Chris Corey - Bass
Influences
King Crimson, Cynic, Meshuggah, Dream Theater, Opeth, Planet X, Tool, Gruvis Malt, Aphex Twin, Nine Inch Nails, Steve Reich, Boards of Canada, Between the Buried and Me, Botch, Gojira, The Faceless, Mastodon, Pantera, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Symphony X, Schoenberg, Brian Eno, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Look What I Did, Car_Bomb, Rez, Super Metroid, R-Type, Contra: Hard Corps, Metal Slug, Lords of Thunder, Agony, Mega Man 2, Tyrian, Panzer Dragoon, Out of this World, Portal, Half-Life, Super Mario Bros. 3, Cave Story, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus
Sounds Like
A war inside your computer......