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Progressive Metal band from Bogota, Colombia.

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Hometown	Bogota, Colombia
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Band Members	Arley Gomez; Julian Cadena; Miguel Martinez
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Upcoming Shows	None

Contact Information:	Manager Miguel Martinez info@altered-symmetry.com 4773469
# Years Experience Performing Live:	6
# Live Perfomances Past Six-months:	16
Market Draw:	Colombia: 800+
Venue History:	Ozzy Rock Bar - Bogota, DC
Opener Experience:	none
Similar Artists:	Dream Theater, Rush, Queensryche
Performing Rights Society:	BMI
Discography:	Prologue LP—2011; Covered EP—2010; Over Calculated Fear EP EP—2009; No regrets EP EP—2008

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About the Artist

The band name “Altered Symmetry” comes from the necessity to alter the symmetry exposed by commercial
artists today, their music chooses to break rules and to experiment with many different musical elements.

The band’s history goes back to 2008, the band...

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Review from: by Music from the other side of the room
The cover of the album looks like something that was taken during the making of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy as the music is given with a wonderful and mind-blowing experiment. Combined with Metal and Story-complex songs, the band’s first debut album is something that you might want to take notice and pay full attention from the moment you hear this album from beginning, middle, and the end. Influences raging from Metallica, Dream Theater, Pantera, and the early days of Opeth, provides a huge resemblance in the city of Colombia. Now I have a love of the Progressive Metal genre, no lie, but with Altered Symmetry, they certainly made a roller-coaster ride album with their debut, Prologue, as they take the music into a wonderous story into complex fairy-tales and a nightmare that will never end. Prologue could have been recorded as a soundtrack to the graphic novel, Batman Under the Red Hood and make it as a concept album, but with the stories influenced from Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Dickens, it seems as if they have done their research so damn well. From Long Lost Love, A Joker’s Vengeance, and Justified Crime, there’s a combination between James LaBrie meets James Hetfield meets Mikael Akerfeldt in their soft, loud, operatic, and growling voice that makes it sound like it was recorded in 1988. The guitar’s sound almost like virtuosity meets a thrashing sneer that gives it a huge volcanic rock format that you can hear in the album as well. Also on A Slave Without a Master, sounds like a vicious metallic crunch that provides a rumbling element of the Six Degrees of Turbulence-era. There are some breathtaking moments in there and the eruption of the album adds to the atmosphere and gives it a mighty explosion and takes the machine going without any stop sign for them. A 7-minute fierce and energetic roadrunner epic, Lies and Fairy Tales comes off with a mighty bullet from the shotgun and has a touch of the running sections of the guitar, drums sounding like a machine gun that is going on without any stopping to shoot through the story structures. You have to admit there’s a bit of a mini metallic opera in there as if they were paying homage to Pete Townshend and Mike Portnoy as if they were watching them and giving them a huge pat on the back. And by the time you listen to Prologue, you can’t just put it down, you might have a few listens to it and may have mixed opinions on their politics, whether you love or loathe it, it takes a good while to understand where the direction the band are going into. To put in more precise, if you admire Dream Theater and Metallica, you probably might want to check this album out and see where the trio are going for them, because the road for them, is just the beginning.

Review From by Heavy Worlds
Primo full leght per i colombiani Altered Symmetry, che dopo una serie di EP portano a compimento un album da 11 tracce di puro e ricercato progressive metal. Come non riconoscere infatti in questi brani influenza di band come Queensryche e Dream Theater se consideriamo quelle più moderne, o dei RuSh e dei Genesis se si vuole andare ancora più a fondo. Gli ingredienti di questo genere sono bene o male sempre gli stessi, ma la bravura di una band sta nel saperli mischiare con originalità e gli Altered Symmetry lo sanno fare bene: in Dream Of Tomorrow, giusto per fare un esempio, si colgono anche cenni di influenze non del tutto prog ( il finale in particolare potrebbe stare benissimo in un qualsiasi album dei Megadeth). Nella traccia immediatamente seguente ( The Longest Journey) la matrice si fa più Dream Theateriana, tanto che la voce del cantante Arley Gomez scimmiotta un po' quella di Labrie, a differenza dei neyorkesi però la band di Bogotà parte molto più decisa negli attacchi dopo i medley acustici e questo a parer mio rende sicuramente più dinamico un disco. Restando in ambito vocale in altri brani sembra quasi di sentire il nostrano Roberto Tiranti dei Labyrinth, ciò gioca senz'altro a favore del colombiano che dà prova della sua poliedricità. I suoni delle chitarre sono limpidi e cristallini, negli sweep picking di Miguel Martinez sembrano una colata di piombo fuso più che pennate tanto sono fluidi e per questo non spingono come dovrebbero nei main riff. Anche il basso, lavorato in ogni virgola a livello compositivo, è forse troppo sfumato a livello di mastering ma sta di fatto che questo “Prologue” è un disco fatto da gente che sa cosa vuole proporre.

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