Blyndfold

Progressive Metal from Dortmund, Germany

It’s easier to listen to music than to grasp its definition via text. Nonetheless, we shall try to provide you with a description:

Every band can be assigned to a musical genre, so we will not deny our roots and influences. We call our music progressive metal, somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle between Dream Theater and Symphony X, Killswitch Engage and Unearth as well as Neal Morse and Porcupine Tree. Instrumental outbursts, complex songs and meters, heavy metal breakdowns but also easy, dreamy parts and musical diversity are the foundation of our style, our figurehead the abyssal voice and the virtuosic performance.

If you are still unable to imagine the sound, off you go to the Media and the Music page, you’ll find the song previews there!

We are equally a live band as we are a studio band. The finest art is to convince the audience in both disciplines. We shall give our best to achieve these ambitious goals.

The genesis of Blyndfold is a story of sudden quantum leaps and changes. Main part of this story is a variety of predecessor bands, which built the latest line-up of the band. Bene and Jan D. play together since 2004 and henceforward attended each and every band in the bloodline of Blyndfold. The first climax was reached with the band ‘Chapter 5’ (2008/2009), that firstly involved Flo. Through gigs and the self-produced ‘Ideas EP’, which sold over 250 copies, the progressive audience was initially interested in the combo. But again, the world moved on: In order to push the style towards heavier metal and more technical progressive music, the band was reformed, now featuring Jan B. and Philip, and renamed.

Due to the unconventional mixture of progressive, metal and core, together with the virtuosic instrumentalists and the exotic sub-bass vocals, Blyndfold invented and celebrates a musical style, which differs considerably from the actual rock and metal scene.

The band plays together since October 2009 and recorded the first demos. In October 2010 the first studio album collide-o-scope was published!

The first studio album of the young german band Blyndfold is a mature and diverse piece of innovative progressive metal music. The self produced CD need not hide from the great releases of the genre; sound and songs will be appreciated even by scene-hardliners. With the 25-minute Season Song that consists of 6 individual parts and opens the album, the 5-piece from Dortmund presents itself energetic as well as playful; dreamy parts, heavy riffs and virtuosic solos interconnect convincingly. The second half of the album, titled Darkness Diary, puts forward 3 songs that tend to be more gloomy, heavy and aggressive without giving an unrelated impression of the band. All in all, the deep voice of vocalist Phil, the technical instrumental passages and the unobtrusive complexity of the arrangements make up the unique personality, which ties the album together. Fans of bands like Dream Theater, Symphony X and Opeth with an affinity to breakdowns and thundering riffs will very likely enjoy this.

If you would like to buy our CD, please use the Blyndfold Online Shop. It is available in German Language only, but we are shipping worldwide!

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