Features Jay Postones The drummer with the progressive metal band Tesseract will happily turn to technology to help him realize the ambitious ideas in his head. Then he jumps on the drums, and the real fun begins. by Ben Meyer Tesseract was formed in 2007, when the British group emerged out of guitarist and principal songwriter Acle Kahney’s solo studio project. A rapturous response to Tesseract’s recordings and opening sets with Devin Townsend, Protest the Hero, and Between the Buried and Me have resulted in the band’s unassailable place at the forefront of the buzzing European tech-metal scene. Last year was a banner one for Jay Postones and the group, who toured practically nonstop in support of their lauded sophomore album, 2013’s Altered State. As Tesseract completes work on Altered State’s follow-up, fans have been keeping busy absorbing every note of the new live audio/video package Odyssey/Scala. The video portion […]

August 2015 Issue