![]() ![]() And here it is.”Įven with a name as prestigious as Vai, though, Polyphia still fucked with his playing enough to retain their anti-solo, pro-melody vision. “Afterwards we went to the DiMarzio party and got drunk and asked him, ‘Okay, would you be down to feature on one of our songs?’ And he was like, ‘Of course!’ A couple of years later, we had the song and sent him an email. “In 2020, Steve asked us to open for him at his NAMM show,” Henson matter-of-factly remembers. It’s a monumental get and, as much as Tim claims to be “stoked” about it, his voice still doesn’t escalate above that not-bothered monotone. The seven-string pioneer appears at the end of grand finale Ego Death, slicing through the mix with a distorted, start-stop solo. Fellow rappers Killstation and $not dominate the middle section of the album, before Deftones frontman Chino Moreno lends his croon to the electric djent chugging of Bloodbath, Remember That You Will Die’s only pure metal moment. Pop singer Sophia Black is the foundation of the track ABC, on which her casual alphabet rap compliments the band’s frantic picking and slap bass. Guest stars from every genre crop up across the album. Then, on second song Playing God, tinkling pianos cave in to acoustic guitars fingerpicked at lightspeed – you can almost hear Tim and fellow guitarist Scott LePage’s calluses burning as their left hands slide up and down the fretboard. However, opening track Genesis doesn’t begin with a metal riff but instead a gentle, strumming funk lick, which is quickly overwhelmed by swelling horns courtesy of soul-loving production duo Brasstracks. The title is a wolf in sheep’s heavy metal clothing, adapting the Latin adage memento mori into a phrase that screams rock ’n’ roll brutality. On new album Remember That You Will Die, it’s almost like the band are out to piss certain sects of society off. The guitar is the only guitar-y thing about Polyphia: the rest is just humans playing programmed parts.” If you were to take the guitars off and then add vocals to what’s playing, it would just sound like whatever genre of music it is we’re doing. “If you were to take away the guitars on the past few records and just listen to the drums and bass, they’re just playing beats, whether they’re trap beats or future bass beats. “We take inspiration from anything,” says Henson. ![]()
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