Protest the Hero - Pacific Myth

Protest the Hero - Pacific MythVinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. 2016 release from the Canadian progressive metal band. Pacific Myth features six songs from the band's exclusive membership series they did only for fans. These songs have never been released physically before. Following the independent release of their crowdfunded 2013 album Volition, the band sought to explore alternative release methods and decided upon a subscription like platform wherein subscribers could get

the 5-piece band

Marissa Paternoster began writing "Peace Meter" immediately after arriving home from a west coast tour cut short due to COVID

Jackie Mittoo on piano

Much of the album's inspiration came from Kinsella's move from Illinois to NYC

Ritual Howls create a cinematic blend of twangy industrial-rock that could fuel a post-apocalyptic dancefloor

"Deftones" showcases the band's signature blend of alternative metal

while bass god Damon Good weaves both fretted and fretless bass mastery and drummer Charlie Koryn encompasses not only speed and brutality

introversion

This also makes BOTANIST the first band to adapt magnetic pickups to hammered dulcimer

plus (for the first time on a "Best Of" compilation) highlights from their studio reunions in 1987 and 1996

"Tuner"/"Lower"

"Rasputin"