After they deconstructed their first single “The Traveller” last month, Whitby Ontario’s Maitreya have done likewise with second cut “Still Motion“. Both tracks appear on the bands 11th October releasing EP “Auxesis” making the insight a preview of not only the new record but the thought process behind the Progressive Metal box of curiosities. Their
When you’ve got a new EP on the horizon but you don’t want to preview too much, what do you do aside from playthrough videos for every component for every track? How about a video analysis on the song writing process? Canadians Maitreya take us behind the lead single “The Traveler” from their 11th October
Who could possibly have a seed idea for a song which can be traced back to a silly cover of Rage Against The Machine classic “Bulls on Parade” and end up with something which drifts between jazz-funk-reggae hybrid with metal? Judging by their prior convictions it can only be Canadian Progressive Metal band Maitreya. They
The fourth and final music video preceding the upcoming 25th June sophomore album from Canadian Progressive Metalcore act Maitreya has surfaced with the band once again taking left field inspiration for it. As with the previously revealed singles, “Bloom” came to life after the band emersed themselves in well-known TV shows and movies and this
Inspired by guitarist Mark Wylie’s viewing of an episode of Black Mirror and taken from their upcoming full-length “Hyper Reels”, Canadian progressive metalcore outfit Maitreya have shared a vocal only performance of their April released single “Pilgrim“. It sees frontman Matt Cutrara showing some love for TesseracT and follows the music video itself, which is visually progressive
“Hyper Reels” maybe two months away but that hasn’t stopped Canadian Progressive Metalcore outfit Maitreya giving us a fourth single from the ten track affair. 25th June is the date in question and as with a number of the cuts, the band have taken inspiration from a TV show, while the video itself is a
It is inevitable that when someone self describes their music as “Progressive” anything that it means more strings and bigger drum kits, so for this bass playthrough video for “Summit” by Canadians Maitreya it should be little wonder that it’s a five. The guitars are probably seven or eight and… Yeah, you get the picture.
After episodes one and two of the documentary series about the making of the upcoming album from Canadian Progressive Death Metallers Maitreya went in deep on singles “Catalyst” and “Departed“ discussing all the major plot twists it only seems logical that episode three would do likewise for third single “Summit“. So that’s exactly what they
After the premier last month of the third single “Summit” from Canadian Progressive Metallers Maitreya which was accompanied by a music video with some stunning footage of Wolves in the Canadian wilderness, vocalist Matt Cutrara has done a one take vocal performance of the cut. It is one which will join 10 others their album
Together with a music video which features some gorgeous footage of the Canadian wilderness, Progressive Metallers Maitreya have shared a third single “Summit” from their upcoming new album. They’re keeping us waiting until 25th June for “Hyper Reels” but with 10 tracks listed and 3 singles already landed it has us wondering how many more
