TesseracT: Nocturne

“UK Progressive Metal band, TESSERACT, are excited to welcome Ashe O’Hara into the group as their new vocalist. Ashe‘s power, emotion, and diversity will help to continue the distinctive yet ever evolving TESSERACT sound.

Hailing from Northampton originally, Ashe spent his early years singing in many different groups, from choirs to musical theatre, and has more recently worked on a number of ambient/alternative metal projects as well as session work. Ashe currently resides in Hove, East Sussex and is eagerly awaiting the upcoming tour and working on the new album.

"I have always been an admirer of their work so it’s pretty awesome to be passed such a challenging flame. I am very aware of the anticipation and I am certainly feeling the weight of it; but I am equally excited for what shall be an amazing and shithot experience!" -Ashe

“We realize that the vocalist search seemed like it took a long time, but we wanted to make sure that we found someone who was a perfect fit both on stage and in the studio and Ashe is just that. We very much appreciate the patience and support our fans have shown us and look forward to the next TesseracT chapter.” -TesseracT

The first preview of that chapter [a teaser of the song], “Nocturne“, can be heard here:

“Nocturne” will be available as a free download and streaming everywhere on October 12th.

“‘Nocturne‘, is one of the most uplifting and exciting pieces of music we have created. It faithfully continues down the same vein of groovy and euphoric progressive soundscapes that we’re known for. Whilst at the same time allowing for the musical evolution that is essential for any band that has a lineup change.” -TesseracT

TESSERACT also recently picked up the ‘New Blood’ award voted for by readers of PROG magazine at last week’s first ever Progressive Music Awards in their native UK and are preparing to for a small run through the UK and Europe where you will have the chance to meet Ashe, too.”

And now, an audio rip of the the new single has landed online.  This was taken from a BBC 1 Rock show.  once again, this is the first single featuring new vocalist Ashe O'Hara.  The official stream will surface on October 12th, 2012:

“Let’s be straight up; the last year has pretty much sucked for TesseracT. We lost our singer from our debut album, much to the disappointment of fans, we parted ways with our US management, lost our US booking agent and stopped getting any gig offers in the UK / Europe.

One plus was that we got to work with the phenomenal vocalist Elliot Coleman, who joined the band to replace Dan Tompkins. But with him living in the US, the impracticalities of writing the second album were far greater than we envisaged, so we found ourselves down a singer once again in June.

Various people in the industry were concerned that we wouldn’t be able to come back from this, and told us that another singer change will lessen fan confidence even further. And just went we didn’t think stuff could get any worse, our one and only tour of the year (with Animals As Leaders, no less) was cancelled. With no singer, no gigs and a massive drop in industry confidence, it’s pretty safe to say that summer 2013 was a bit of a low point for us.

I remember when Metal Hammer contacted us about being nominated for Best UK band at the Golden Gods, and we were thinking “Really? Wow if only they knew WTF’s going on”. However being nominated was obviously a massive thing for us, and definitely helped us keep focused and fix the mess that we’d gotten into. Some people still seemed to believe in us!

New material was coming together and sounding pretty good, so all we had to do was sort our shit out, so we set out to find a new vocalist immediately. After auditioning what felt like hundreds of people, from known people in established bands to enthusiastic kids, the man for the job was under our nose the whole time. Acle (Kahney – TesseracT‘s other guitarist) had mixed Ashe O’hara‘s band Voices From The Fuselage a while back, and when he played them to us we were all like “he sounds awesome, let’s see if he’s interested!”

Everything from his studio and live performance, to his writing style fit perfectly. The new single Nocturne was actually his writing audition, and it turned out so great that pretty much all the ideas made it to the final version!…” -James Monteith (via Thrashhits.com)