Anyone remember the acoustic songs TesseracT played for our video segment called Studio Sessions this past May? The band performed three songs with vocalist Dan Tompkins, who performed on their Century Media debut, and it pretty much ruled. TesseracT thought so as well, and now will be releasing a acoustic EP with a working title called Perspective that will contain three songs (much like the Metal Injection performance here) from their debut album, One, with their new frontman Elliot Coleman. No release date has been announced, but the EP will will see a Spring 2012 release according to the band.
The EP itself was inspired by an acoustic session we filmed last year in New York, whilst on tour with Protest The Hero. It made us realize that a few of the tracks sounded really great when re-arranged and approached at from a different perspective. It will feature 3 new versions of tracks from ‘One‘ plus a very special cover.
In conjunction with the new EP coming out, bass player Amos Williams posted a playthrough video of him performing an acoustic version of April, which will also be on the upcoming EP:
“I’ve been planning to film myself playing along to TesseracT‘s debut ‘One‘ for a while now. Over the Christmas holidays I asked our fans which song they would like me to film first, to which the answer was ‘April‘. This got me thinking however, as ‘April‘ has evolved quite a bit, in a similar fashion to the way ‘Concealing Fate‘ had evolved over the years of performing it on tour.
So, I figured it would make sense to perform the latest version of ‘April‘ which we’re about to release with our new EP, which has the working title of ‘Perspective‘. We’re still not sure if this will be the title, but at the moment it kind of makes the most sense.
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