Album Notes

Originally an instrumental band, the band released their debut record “Absolute Zero” to critical acclaim, which quickly launched the band into the underground metal scene, sans-vocals, along the likes of SCALE THE SUMMIT, ANIMALS AS LEADERS, LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT, and CANVAS SOLARIS, and was hailed as one of the top ten albums of 2009 by ULTIMATE-GUITAR.COM. Also commented Mark Michell in a recent interview with EXAMINER.COMabout the new release: "We really took a new direction musically. It's our first record to feature vocals, and we didn't want to have Absolute Zero, Part 2 with vocals over it, so we decided to just completely change our approach. I think Altered State's biggest slogan is "substance over style", where as our debut was very style-oriented and straight forward. Wedefinitely have our progressive, crazy fast heavy moments, but we took a step back and gave it a lot more atmosphere which is something I think we needed on many levels."