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Topic: return to earth prog metal
Posted: January 01 2014 at 22:10

RETURN TO EARTH for prog metal

Features Brett Aveni (ex Dillinger Escape Plan) and Chris Pennie (ex Coheed and Cambria)
as well as Ron Scalzo on vocals

http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/return_to_earth

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=return+to+earth+automata&sm=1

https://www.facebook.com/returntoearth

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Posted: January 02 2014 at 07:12

Most recent album: Automata
RELEASE DATE: 08/17/2010 (Metal Blade Records: http://www.metalblade.com/returntoearth/)

1. Automata
2. You Will Be Replaced
3. Back Of My Hand
4. 1.0
5. Edge Of Forever
6. Night Of The Exploding Razors
7. Snakeface
8. The Dots Do Not Connect
9. 2.0
10. The Replicas
11. So Close
12. God At The End Of The World
13. 3.0
14. Exit Wound
15. The Altercation Of Man

http://baldfreak.com/releases/return-to-earth-automata/, from where a few other opinions are taken:

“Mixing a love of Mike Patton, Trent Reznor and latter-day Dillinger with the catchy hooks of Coheed, RTE’s second release is an unapologetic slick attempt to smuggle leftfield influences into a mainstream rock sound. The trio are adept at fashioning material which is radio-friendly without dumbing down, and Automata is a work which, given the chance, will surely resonate with a far wider audience than its predecessor.”
- Olly Thomas (Kerrang!)

“…smacks of Nine Inch Nails, Metallica and 80s hair metal all at once. Amalgams like that could turn out unsustainable but Return to Earth manages to keep the music full of fun and interesting surprises, and they click nicely on radio-ready tracks like ‘The Replicas’”
- Kevin Wierzbicki

“When they’re not being (a much refined and improved) DEP, or Baroness’s psycho kid brother, or chasing Slayer around with a chainsaw, they’re ripping off the best part of Minus the Bear’s last album (on “Snakeface”). What are you sitting there for — get to buying this someplace, mush mush.”
-Eric W. Saeger

“RTE never become predictable. They might just be the future of several scenes at once.”

http://www.myspace.com/returntoearththeband (full samples of everything they've ever recorded via the 'music' tab)
Note: They released another album called 'Captains Of Industry' on 12th April 2007.

And from 'Captains of Industry':

A mixture of Alternative Metal and Prog Metal...but will the balance be sufficiently biased towards the laltter to satisfy the team...?

Andy Webb

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Posted: January 02 2014 at 08:30

Yea, I'm feeling that ratio is not sufficient for prog. I heard some cool riffs, but this is overwhelmingly alt metal more than anything else.

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Posted: January 02 2014 at 11:28

Andy Webb wrote:

Yea, I'm feeling that ratio is not sufficient for prog. I heard some cool riffs, but this is overwhelmingly alt metal more than anything else.

I agree to an extent
The singer says they are very inspired by MUSE who is on here
Maybe they qualify for crossover like muse does?

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Posted: January 02 2014 at 11:57

Well Muse is Prog Related for a reason. They have some ties to the prog community and have a progressive sound, but that's all, really. We can't have prog-related-related bands or else we'd have to add half the music world.

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Posted: January 02 2014 at 12:16

OK. Thanks for checking them out Thumbs Up