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Enchant - "A Blueprint Of The World"Challenging and technically intriguing music played with muscle and authority is an apt description of this San Francisco area band's style. With apparent influences from bands such as Dream Theater, Rush, Kansas, Queensryche and Marillion-in fact Steve Rothery from Marillion produced many of the cuts on the album at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool England with the band-Enchant still generates its own distinct sound. Having played together for seven years, the members have a musical familiarity with one another which is very obvious upon hearing any of the cuts from this fine debut album.
Hideous Sun Demons - "Self-Titled"From very structured pieces to wide open jams, The Hideous Sun Demons cover a vast array of styles. With a love of classic science fiction and horror movies, The Hideous Sun Demons have vowed to stake their claim in the musically high tech world inhabited by such musical super heroes as Liquid Tension Experiment, Niacin and Bozzio Levin Stevens. As a result the group naturally gravitated to Magna Carta as their musical home.
Totalisti - "Slave To None""One of the things we really enjoy is odd times and really syncopated parts - and trying to make them groove. We tried to make the technicality second to the ability to make it feel good. The guys will come in with a melody and then I approach them with the rhythm and say, ‘Here's how we can do this; here's how we can break it down,’ almost like a math problem. ‘If you want to turn it into a 4/4 feel we can do that; if you want to turn it into a 6/8 feel, maybe a 5/4 or a 7/4, let’s go!’ For example, "Severed Ties" is a song that starts out in 7/8, goes to 4/4 for the verse, then goes to 5/4 for the chorus, and it's just a matter of feel. Our big thing is instead of trying to create these big parts, I think we try to focus on making great transitions from part to part. As far as, ‘Where does the thought go?’ - it's definitely in our transitions."