Steve Di Giorgio’s & Jeroen Paul Thesseling’s QUADVIUM Reveal New Song & Music Video “Apophis”
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Half in California – half in the Netherlands, the instrumental progressive metal-fusion quartet, Quadvium, shares new single and music video “Apophis”, from the band’s upcoming album Tetradōm, due out May 30 via Agonia Records.
The band was established late 2019 by renowned bass players Steve Di Giorgio (Testament, Death) and Jeroen Paul Thesseling (Obscura, Pestilence). Watch the video for their new track, here.
“Apophis” marks the second single of Quadvium, following the release of “Náströnd” late March (video available here). It portrays a different side of the band’s debut album, both in sound and image. Steve Di Giorgio & Jeroen Paul Thesseling comment: “Yes, indeed this second single is a bit more vigorous than the first one. There are many moods, and various soundscapes across all 7 songs, and with this one we open the portal to our technical aspect. From a mix of dynamics and serpentine exchanges, to a fiery interaction between both fretless basses…The counterpoint patterns, the classical orchestration combined with the heavier parts, ‘Apophis’ slithers between different adventurous melodic structures. The superb guitar lines are masterfully wielded by Eve, who also mainly composed & mixed the album, also blazes one of her trademark solos. Yuma, our master-of-all time signatures, keeps the pace brisk while also presenting one of his more expressive performances on drums for this one. We all are grateful for the enthusiasm and the very positive feedback for our first single (‘Náströnd’) and hereby like to invite you to listen to the second single from our up & coming album Tetradōm. Really hope you enjoy the adventure, and hope to keep hearing from you as we work our way to the release of the whole album next month!”
Steve Di Giorgio and Jeroen Paul Thesseling are both innovators in bringing a different style of fretless bass playing to metal. Launching a band with two predominantly multi-string fretless bass players is no common occurrence, and the bass-duo felt they needed to take very special and deliberate time to get the right alignment with who is participating and what will be the end result – meaning the right sound and composition to represent this rare vision.
Over time, together with Dutch master drummer Yuma van Eekelen (Our Oceans, Pestilence) and American guitar virtuoso/composer Eve (Myth Of I, Kaathe) – whose contribution and expertise play a huge part of Quadvium – the music began to take shape. The line-up is just the right blend to mix the delicate balance of such a heavy aural offering and a full vocabulary of high level constructed pieces.
“We had an intention many many years ago to make some music together… to feature two predominately multistring fretless bass players playing in duet form,” Quadvium bassists Steve and Jeroen comment. “That is to say, neither being «rhythm bass & lead bass» nor some trading off hot solo licks mess. But easier said than done! While hanging out, we exchanged some thoughts about how it would be to form a group to support our bass-ic needs. At that time it was just a spontaneous idea, but over the years the topic was brought up again and again. This vision was blurry at best and it took us a long time to not only imagine how to feature the bass in this way, but more importantly – who would share in this concept with us. Yuma is an old acquaintance and lucky for us, he needed this project to add to his list of a thousand others! But having a drummer that understood that 2 bass players would be filling the sonic spectrum, he was undaunted in contributing the backbone as well as keeping our outlandish ideas in check. After a long search for the next musician, a gold mine was found on Instagram reels by the name of Eve. Some of the most insane guitar (and bass!) videos we ever saw inspired us to ask if this was a project worth joining… not only did we have our final member aboard, but a studio genius and the main composer of this strategy we had so long ago, who brought it all together and focused everything into the album we are so proud to share with you now. Thanks to the solid support from Agonia Records for supporting our dream and making this album a reality! Fans of instrumental progressive metal fusion – and fretless bass! – will surely enjoy these musical journeys.”
Tetradōm was recorded and produced by Eve and co-produced by Yuma van Eekelen. The album was mastered by Dereck Blackburn at Quiethouse Recording. Travis Smith (Amorphis, King Diamond, Cynic) created the album’s artwork and layout.
Formats:
– Digipak CD
– Tape
– Black LP
– Orange LP w/poster
– Purple LP w/poster
– Digital
– T-shirt
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