http://telepathyband.bandcamp.com http://www.facebook.com/telepathyband Twitter: @telepathyband Instagram: @telepathybanduk Contact: [email protected] Booking: Doomstar Booking Agency - [email protected] Label: Golden Antenna Records - [email protected] PR: EU: Creative Eclipse [email protected] UK: iLikePress - [email protected] BIOGRAPHY PRESS KIT 2017 ‘Tempest may be one of the greatest post-metal albums ever recorded’ - Punktastic ‘ ‘…the drama is felt from the crush of oceanic riffs that wash menacingly around the listener and the sense of desolation that grips you during the disquiet.’ – Tempest Reiew - Metal Hammer ‘Thought post-metal had nothing left to say? Well, Telepathy just read your mind. Now let them prove you wrong’ Tempest Review - KKKK Kerrang “12 Areas then is a unique beast in the instrumental landscape of 2014: it serves as a whole, a complete journey that takes the listener through various shades of blue. It tackles the challenges of instrumental music, to be interesting and unique but not scattered, with an original approach” Heavy Blog is Heavy “The blend of progressive and sludgy post-metal imprints itself on the ears, and when executed with this level of intensity leaves more than a few mouths hanging open. Easily one of the highlight sets of the night, Telepathy can walk off stage with smug grins plastered on their faces.” Live – Echoes & Dust “Mit weniger Furor und Räudigkeit, dafür mit fast verwirrender Komplexität und einer beachtlich feisten Verzerrung der Gitarren wartet die britische Instrumental-Metal-Band Telepathy auf. Tempest (Golden Antenna) klingt aufgeräumter als das Debüt, bietet jede Menge Post-Metal-Dynamik und ist ein Leckerbissen für alle, die auf ein fettes, raumgreifendes und mächtiges Klangbild stehen. Das Ding ist so breit, dass es beinahe nicht durch die Tür passt.“ INTRO Magazin (DE) Telepathy formed in 2011, the product of two Polish brothers and an English guitarist (Piotr Turek, Albert Turek & Richard Powley). From then on the Colchester, UK based instrumental metal band were joined by bassist Teddy James Driscoll and have since set about becoming one of the undergrounds most exciting hopes of recent times. With Tempest (Golden Antenna Records) and the 2014 debut album 12 Areas (Devouter Records, Tartarus Records) receiving rave reviews across blogs and print magazines throughout Europe (Visions Magazine, Metal Hammer, Zero Tolerance, Legacy, Rock Hard, Ox Fanzine, Fuze, Rock-a-Rolla, Terrorizer, etc), the band are continuing a momentum that has seen them grow from strength to strength. The band has been championed by fans of post-metal, hardcore, sludge and progressive music alike, speaking volumes for the bands inventive, nuanced and emotionally punishing take on instrumental metal. With such an array of styles and emotions forming into a unique and cohesive whole, Telepathy display an ability to bring fans of many types of metal and instrumental music into their strange and alluring world. Live, the bands furious performances have made Telepathy one of the most talked about bands in the European underground and has gained them fans on numerous UK and European tours, the latest in 2017 including a stop at the legendary Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, where they were heralded as one of the top 10 bands of the festival by Dutch webzine and Roadburn partner ‘Never Mind the Hype’. Telepathy separates itself from the shoe-gazing masses with the infectious and cathartic energy they exude on stage. From performances alongside more established names such as Rosetta, Year of No Light & Oathbreaker, to sets at Incubate Festival, Desertfest 2016, Roadburn and beyond, the immediate impact of Telepathy’s live shows has been felt across the continent. 1 http://telepathyband.bandcamp.com [email protected] TEMPEST PRESS KIT 2017 The band’s latest release ‘Tempest’ is the long awaited sophomore full-length from the UK instrumental titans. Recorded, mixed and mastered at London’s Orgone Studios by lauded producer /engineer Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost, Opeth, Paradise Lost, Altar of Plagues, Cathedral), Tempest follows in the footsteps of Telepathy’s critically acclaimed 2014 debut 12 Areas and is very much a concept record. Tempest depicts the harrowing journey of a person beset with grief and faced with total isolation after awaking from a great flood. The album guides the listener on a journey through awakening, desolation and finally acceptance. Tempest fuses elements of post-metal, sludge, doom and black metal with unorthodox and complex song structures, creating a cohesive and cathartic tapestry of unique instrumental metal. The inclusion of tortured vocals on the album’s centrepiece, Echo of Souls, shows a band unafraid to travel into uncharted waters. Where its predecessor 12 Areas was by intention a chaotic and furious exploration of sound, Tempest marks a shift towards a more balanced and open sonic palette. The album is a far darker and more dynamic, emotional and refined record than before, with an added emphasis on sonic weight, unbridled heaviness, melody and emotional depth. The album was released on vinyl, CD and digitally by revered German independent label Golden Antenna Records (Rosetta, Planks, Kerretta, Phantom Winter) on 31st March 2017. The album has been met with overwhelming critical acclaim from all corners of the print and online rock media, including Metal Hammer UK & DE, Kerrang Magazine, Visions Magazine, FUZE Magazine, OX Fanzine, Terrorizer, Rock Hard Magazine, Eclipse Magazine, Zero Tolerance and Legacy Magazine. ‘Tempest may be one of the greatest post-metal albums ever recorded’ - Punktastic ‘the drama is felt from the crush of oceanic riffs that wash menacingly around the listener and the sense of desolation that grips you during the disquiet.’ - Metal Hammer ‘Thought post-metal had nothing left to say? Well, Telepathy just read your mind. Now let them prove you wrong’ - 4/5 - Kerrang 'fusing cathartic metal riffing with the kind of stirring, well-paced crescendos that would have Explosions In The Sky nodding their heads in approval.’ - The Quietus 2 http://telepathyband.bandcamp.com [email protected] PRESS (CONTINUED) PRESS KIT 2017 Telepathy has also received widespread critical acclaim for both its 2011 E.P Fracture and its 2014 album 12 Areas, released on Vinyl and CD by Devouter Records (Wiht, Cultura Tres) and Cassette by Tartarus Records (Amenra, Primitive Man, etc) Here are examples of this press, included are quotes from reviews and copies from leading music magazines Rock-a-rolla and Visions (DE). In addition, 12 Areas has just been featured in Ox Fanzine, Fuze and Legacy in Germany, and has made the Sludgelords top 20 albums of 2014, and also Arctic Drones end of year lists. Heavy Blog is Heavy - http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2014/04/03/telepathy- 12-areas/ “2014 is already set to be a great year for instrumental metal. Into the broil we can now add Telepathy with their intelligent and emotionally taxing 12 Areas. Telepathy bring a unique sound to the instrumental arena: instead of focusing on technically extravagant passages, they turn instead to overbearing, post-metal sensibilities. 12 Areas is a dark and somber creation, channeling influences from Isis and other post- metal ilk….” …12 Areas then is a unique beast in the instrumental landscape of 2014: it serves as a whole, a complete journey that takes the listener through various shades of blue. It tackles the challenges of instrumental music, to be interesting and unique but not scattered, with an original approach Terrorizer - http://www.terrorizer.com/news/streams/listen- telepathys-new-song-cystine-knot-terrorizer “Since forming in 2011, Telepathy have been causing quite a stir with their poignant fusion of atmospheric, sludgy tones with progressive song structures and, of course, stonking great riffs.” Ninehertz - http://www.ninehertz.co.uk/viewitem/4443 “Telepathy are a four piece instrumental outfit that provide cultivated post-metal that balances the necessary dynamics of the genre, the depth and intellect, with the aggression and riffs essential to stop the sound disappearing up inside itself… 3 http://telepathyband.bandcamp.com [email protected] PRESS KIT 2017 4 http://telepathyband.bandcamp.com [email protected] PRESS KIT 2017 5 http://telepathyband.bandcamp.com [email protected] PRESS KIT 2017 6 http://telepathyband.bandcamp.com [email protected] PRESS KIT 2017 7 http://telepathyband.bandcamp.com [email protected] PRESS KIT 2017 8 http://telepathyband.bandcamp.com [email protected] .