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TESSERACT: UNPLUGGED

 Thursday, May 26th, 2011 at 10:00am by

Anyone alive and old enough to be aware of pop culture in the ’90s has a very special connection with MTV’s Unplugged series. The idea seemed revolutionary at the time — although in hindsight I’m sure it wasn’t — because there was something about stripping all the distortion away that was charming, leaving just the bare-bones music for analysis: are they good sequences of notes, or are they not?

Metal Injection is bringing Unplugged back, but for metal. At least I hope they are, because the results of their very first episode of Metal De-Injection (or whatevs) featuring TesseracT are pretty fucking great. Of course, TesseracT, whose vocals are mostly clean, are the ideal band for this kind of setup; it’s hard to imagine this working out well for Randy Blythe or any other screamer. But it’s a great concept, and it’s done right with multiple cameras and sound-board audio, all recorded in a pro studio. Watch Part 1 below then watch Part 2 and Part 3 over at Metal Injection.

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  • Eloli

    Unplugged was MTV’s way of marketing rock to the “lame douchebag in their late 30s / early forties crowd”.
    Being a metalhead in my late thirties, I find the whole idea of a metal band doing an unplugged show lame, stupid and disgusting.
    Lame, because had I been interested in unplugged music as a kid, I would’ve listened to the same hippy folk acts my parents love.
    Stupid, because a metal band has almost no possible crossover appeal, doing an unplugged show is just a waste of time.
    Disgusting, because heavy metal is all about volume and distortion, not about being bare bones and singy songy.
    Fuck you Tesseract. Fuck you sideways. Yet another band for my “shit to avoid” list.

    • http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com Alkahest

      you mad, bro?

      • Eloli

        Nope. I just think that acoustic music has no place in heavy metal unless it’s used for constrast against balls to the wall ear splitting riffs.

        • Strapping Young Lad

          try listening to it. It sounds pretty great.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Robson/1375985482 Ben Robson

          that’s just silliness. if the band wants to play their song on acoustic instruments, then they can play it on acoustic instruments. there’s nothing conceptually offensive about that, at least not to me. metal bands shouldn’t be bound to play all metal all the time if they don’t want to.

          • Eloli

            These clowns can fart their way through their whole catalog on a kazoo if they want to, and that’s fine with me… but that doesn’t mean I have to applaud them for that.
            The way I see it, a metal band has no business wasting their own or their fan’s valuable time playing douchy hippy singy songy versions of their own stuff.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shaun-Reeves/100000774753955 Shaun Reeves

      So I guess bands like Opeth or any metal band that uses acoustics are complete metal posers then?

      • Deere

        lol at “wasting time.” we’re all just wasting time here. you’re going to complain about people wasting time playing MUSIC?

  • Cw

    This is great
    Ellol, y u no understand?!?!?

  • Jack ATTACK

    This sounds terrible

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Keith-Brown/537636633 Keith Brown

    This is really cool. The singer’s moaning gets on my nerves a fucking LOT, but the rest of it is really chill stuff. I would probably buy a couple acoustic Tesseract songs off of Amazon. Not the whole album, just a few.

  • GoingDeaf?

    The bassist didn’t get the memo?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shaun-Reeves/100000774753955 Shaun Reeves

      Ha I was thinking the same thing. I guess he doesn’t realize there is such a thing as acoustic basses…

    • Deere

      acoustic bass guitars are notoriously bad with intonation and have amplification/recording issues. a proper double bass (aka an upright bass) would have been cool in a setting like this but it’s not the same instrument at all.

      • Deere

        a guitarrón would have been cool too (it’s the 6-string bass in mariachi bands that looks like a horribly bloated acoustic guitar)

  • Yesman

    Reminds me of what the Swiss grind band Nostromo did a couple of years back:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8qK0JuGZV8&feature=related

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Lekberg/779008102 Jason Lekberg

    dudes. the cover of Dream Brother is awesome. Tesseract covering Jeff Buckley = awesome.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyler-Drainville/1001844409 Tyler Drainville

    The amount of vocal talent this guy has blows my mind. His control is insane.

  • The I

    Tesseract finds new ways to break the “lame and boring” barrier every month, it seems.