Hail The Sun / Intervals / Makari / Body Thief

Prog Rock

Apr 11

FOR FANS OF: Circa Survive, Dance Gavin Dance, Covet, Plini, Saosin, Animals as Leaders, HRVRD, Sianvar

April 11, 2024

Imagine you go to a show and don’t know anything about THIS lineup. I wish I could rediscover these bands for the first time again. I heard of Intervals a long time ago through suggestions on Apple Music while listening to Plini, Animals as Leaders and other progressive instrumental bands. It was high energy, clean, and a lot of notes where the melody isn’t vocalized, it’s guitar-ized.

Hail the Sun was a band that came on as an Apple Music suggestion when I asked it to play “my station.” The song that I heard first was Anti-Eulogy (I Hope You Stay Dead) and halfway through, I asked Siri “who the hell is this!?” I then became obsessed with that whole album, Wake (check it out first, you won’t regret it. Mars Volta Deloused era vibes with a little more aggression.

Makari and Body Thief were both new to me and incredible. The vocal range of Andy Cizek was ridiculous and after the show I found out he’s the vocalist for A Lot Like Birds as well as Monuments and I don't know how I didn’t piece it together. Fantastic stuff and a little more light-hearted than Hail The Sun. Body Thief sounds like they would be a hardcore band but they’re more post-hardcore with more melodic structure and math with some beauty in their chaos. Huge emotional crescendos without feeling cold and catchy without getting old and sacrificing complexity.

Images shot by Shane McNicholas @elsephoto with a Canon R5 and RF 14-35mm F4 L as well as an RF 100mm 2.8 Macro