TesseracT - Of Matter

The combination of Proxy, Retrospect, and Resist, making up Of Matter on the album Altered State by TesseracT.
This is a great album, I highly recommend picking it up right away!
© 2013, Century Media Records

[xhighalert]

I had Altered State playing on Google Music while at work, but the part at 12:12 made me lose my shit. I had to go hide in one of the empty under-construction offices in a different floor to let it out. It really doesn't get any more raw than this.

[orangehilo]

Brings back a sad memory of a terrible place I was in when I found this song. But this song will always have a special place in my heart.

[boomdoom]

I'm a surrogate
I'm archetypal and itinerant
I'm your excuse to long
For a superior
I will undertake
I will overcome

Imperfection you will find
Look close enough
Tear off the mask I need
This endeavor is not mine
You subject me to the daggers you conceive
I'm stronger than I was before
Thus you reinforce these walls
I can't fight you anymore
Threatened by the open door
All the chances I ignore
I can't stand still anymore

The day is done
Nothing left to say
Resting head in hands
Wishing I had known my place
To take a stand
The errand of a fool
I'm not to reprimand
I'm here to help you through

Is nothing like it seems?
Living in this sequence, a dream
Is nothing like it seems?
Gather broken shards of self esteem


Burning bridges as I cower beneath
Trying to salvage the debris
My devotion tied around your waist lest you fall
no one seems to sense the strain
No one seems to know

I don't begin to proclaim that I know
I can't continue down this road

Dwelling on what has come to pass
no force alive will bring it back
I would know
I can feel the pressure getting steeper with every life lost
You hope that I won't see the light of day in time to come
With no conviction founded
Just judgement contorted based on lust
Give me strength
Your assumption brings to a conclusion of no consequence
and I refuse to play into your hands for your appeal

Inadequate, Inadequate
I know
I know
I know
I know
I've hoped
I've hoped
you'll see me

Turn back time
Reason why
Break neck speed
History

Waiting (waiting)
Waning (waning)
Exasperating
Unstrung
Tethered
Hoping forever

No! I tried to settle bets with my own soul
Bless my lips for the first time before you don't
Gripping to the last touch of your hand I grow to loathe
Hope that you remember just how far I'll go
I'll spend the rest of my life wishing I'm enough

Resist.
Resist.
Resist.

Resist.
Resist.
Resist.

[ianlewis]

Warning, don't stare at the center dot in the artwork while listening to this. It may induce a greater understanding of time and space.

[dantess]

Of Matter is definitely the best part of Altered State. Goosebump-inducing stuff!

[darksinthe]

Randomly stumbled upon this. THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING

[mattsdpell]

The part at 6.14 is so good that I always rewind at 5.15, because I don't have the courage to face it.

[painmn]

A criminally overlooked masterpiece. What a voice!

[josephh]

I listen to this band to cry sometimes. I'm really thankful to hear such a beautiful blend of sounds

[devore]

Wish I had found this a year ago when I was picking myself up from my depression. What a beautiful song with powerful lyrics, especially "Resist". Wow. Now a TesseracT fan.

[Repentagram]

I discovered this group on accident. A great accident indeed!

[mopheadtherd]

closest pice of art to the description "scary good" ive ever come across....first time i listened to this it permanently changed what music was to me

[Noxious]

"Dwelling on what has come to pass
no force alive will bring it back
I would know
I can feel the pressure getting steeper with every life lost
You hope that I won't see the light of day in time to come
With no conviction founded
Just judgement contorted based on lust
Give me strength
Your assumption brings to a conclusion of no consequence
and I refuse to play into your hands for your appeal"

[TSPH]

Probably the best Progmetal/Djent discovery of this Thursday for me.
Now I can't stop listening. Thnx Tesseract ;)

[CoriantonHalladay]

After hearing Altered State only one time through, it immediately became one of my top five favorite albums ever.

[Wind]

1:36 is getting me on outer space eveytime ....

[reject]

"Hope that you'll remember just how far I'll go" God I love that line

[JohnJillky]

Djentlemen and djentlewomen, welcome to Of Matter. I'm just an adjent of good music. Now, open your ears and let the djently beautiful sounds flow into them.

[sacchitsreenivasan]

That intro to Proxy has to be one of the best I've ever heard.

[quantumxfluxmd]

Heard this on Spotify last year and became a huge fan
The ending where he says" I hope, I know... you'll meee " is so haunting but beautiful gives me the strangest chill through my entire body from.ghe spine down its insane