Well, not a lot of it, we used some of it. He used to play around with something called the twelve-tone scale, which is an atonal kind of scale and a lot of the early music was based on that music theory, I suppose. The name comes from Arnold Schoenberg, who was a composer in the ‘40s. It started with Shayne (Johnson), the other guitarist and Nelson (Barnes) on drums, and we grew to have another guitarist, myself, and a guy on bass and vocals. Then we slowly started jamming with a few more members. The band kinda formed when a few local Brissy metal bands broke up and started as a bit of an internet project. Q: Can you tell us a little about the band’s history?Ī: We’ve been around for about three years now. Guitarist Damien Boorman chatted with Loud about the reception afforded the new album, hanging out with Killswitch Engage and the state of the music business. The band also won the prestigious opening slot at the Brisbane leg of this year’s Soundwave Festival via triple J’s Unearthed competition. Following the release of a debut EP in 2011, they recently unleashed brutal debut LP Vela.

The Butterfly Effect at UNSW Roundhouseīand site: Assembled from the scrapheap of several prolific Australian metal bands, Brisbane’s The Schoenberg Automaton is a mouthful as well as an earful of technical death metal.

Monolith Festival – Sydney Bella Vista Farm, Bella Vista NSW.

Winter Magic Revival Festival Katoomba, NSW.

Private Function Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst NSW.

The Butterfly Effect Eatons Hill Hotel, Brendale QLD.

Goatwhore: Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven.

Complex riffs, odd time signature changes, insane drum patterns nothing was too difficult to execute live and the band easily became one of my favourites of the night. 'TSA were like pit-bulls straight out of the gate they wasted no time and were absolutely brutal from start to finish. (No rating given) – No Clean Singing, February 9, 2013

This is the kind of adventurous genre-fusing metal that gives me hope for the future: good musicians with good ideas making phenomenal music.' 'I could say a lot about Vela, but ultimately music this intense and different needs to be heard explaining what they do still wouldn’t prepare you for how well thought-out, eerie, and dominating The Schoenberg Automaton are. (4/5) – Heavy Blog is Heavy, 21 January 2013 Make no mistake, The Schoenberg Automaton will be a force to be reckoned with out of the already impressive Australian metal scene if their first offering already hits this hard.' While their myriad of influences are shown on their sleeves - the trudging stutterred riffs of Gojira, the schizophrenic chaos of early Dillinger Escape Plan, and the forward-thinking technical battery of Between the Buried and Me are all plain as day - their sound wears more like a continued step in the genre lineage rather than shameless mimicry. 'Rising Australia stars The Schoenberg Automaton eschew trends with their debut album Vela. (8/10) – Kill Your Stereo, 1 February 2013 ‘Vela’ gets progressively better and Australia has another band to parade to the internationals that have been lauded over us for so long.' You keep expecting a letdown and it simply doesn’t come. The music is dense, the vocals deep and everything else fits accordingly. It almost feels like we’ve stepped back to The Red Chord’s ‘Clients’ heydays. 'Who needs Europe when some of the most polished, articulate and carefully crafted metal now resides in our own backyard? ‘Vela’ is crushing from the get go. With the upcoming 2014 release of their highly anticipated sophomore album, TSA are ready to step it up a notch and compete on the world stage with a brand new set of savage and original compositions. TSA have built a reputation as a ferocious and calculated live act, performing alongside several world-class notaries including Animals as Leaders, Between the Buried and Me, Born Of Osiris, Psycroptic, Veil of Maya, King Parrot, Ne Obliviscaris, Fleshgod Apocalypse and appearing at Australia’s iconic Soundwave festival as winners of Triple J Unearthed.

With a sound that’s unmistakeable yet hard to pin down, TSA made a big impact on the Australian metal scene with a debut EP in 2011 that generated a lot of hype for the critically acclaimed release of Vela in 2013. The Schoenberg Automaton (TSA) are a mouthful and an earful of mind-bending technical death metal. 4 x The Schoenberg Automaton - The Woodhouse Sakati SyndromeĤ x The Schoenberg Automaton - Where Are We, in a Cube?Ĥ x The Schoenberg Automaton - All Roads Lead to RomeĤ x The Schoenberg Automaton - A Stone Face of Piety

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