Tallah, the band featuring Mike Portnoy's son drummer Max Portnoy and vocalist and YouTube sensation Justin Bonitz, will release their new album Matriphagy on October 2. I'm pretty stoked to premiere the band's chaotic new song "Red Light" today, which fits right in with modern metal titans like Code Orange, Vein, and Candy. The music video is also a total trip.
"'Red Light' is sheer chaos. It is a madman rambling," said Bonitz. "Unlike some of the other songs on Matriphagy, the concept behind 'Red Light' is very much obscured in a delirious fog. The story is there, the themes are there, but everything is jumbled together by the character's stream of consciousness, guilt, and wild emotions. Between the angry, driving drums, odd time signatures, operatic vocals, rapping, villainous theatrics, and chunky guitar/bass, the message almost gets lost.
"The overall point of the song is, 'It's time to stop.' Whether it be a toxic thought pattern, delusion, addiction, depression, insecurity, trying to control each other, whatever, the theme of the song is, 'It's time to stop.' Stop getting distracted by yourself and all the little, screwed up issues you have, and look at the big picture. Your house was built on quicksand, and you are going under."
Pre-order Matriphagy here.
