TIM’S FAVOURITE amaConda RELEASE PARTY / My Friend The Atom / DJ Fleddy Melculy

vzw Rock ’n Load Concerts, Tim’s Favourite & Cinema proudly present
SATURDAY 27/01/2024 @ CINEMA, AALST
TIM’S FAVOURITE
– amaConda RECORD RELEASE PARTY –
As usual, it took a bit longer than expected 😜, but 2 years after the first single, “A Deeper Advantage”, Tim’s Favourite are finally ready to unleash their fourth full album, “amaConda”, upon the world. As a teaser, the title track and an accompanying video clip were released on Nov. 22.
Tim’s Favourite brings you the “zen metal”: a rather idiosynchratic, somewhat disorienting trip straight into hell during which grunge, metal, psychedelic rock and particularly uplifting lyrics delicately bulldoze your last remaining certainties to bits and send your neck muscles into an exorcist-like state of inhuman flexibility. For fans of Tool, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Prong, Metallica, Meshuggah and, would you believe it, the (later) Beatles…
But serious.
Tim’s Favourite is an Aalstern cult metal quartet, (still) mingling (as imperturbably as ever) seemingly irreconcilable elements of grunge, thrash metal, progressive metal, stoner and, frankly, whatever they dig in their own hypnotizing concrete mixer, resulting into something they like to call ‘zen metal’. Think of it what you may, think Tool meets Alice In Chains meets early Metallica and then some.
If the band’s diabolic name still puts you on the wrong track about its not necessarily uplifting vibe, then rest assured, there’s an almost inhumanly harrowing but nevertheless thoroughly credible narrative behind it: One day, founding father Jan Pauwels discovered his three-year-old nephew Tim with a pair of headphones, in a state of total disbelief and utter torment whilst listening to demos for what was to become the first album of his uncle’s metal project. A sign from God, the uncle figured, and the name for the project was found. In the following years, however, each new TF album only added to The Infernal Majesty’s torment, eventually leaving him no option but to join the band bearing his name, so as to cunningly manipulate them into ditching any songmaterial in his view short from pure perfection.
Add the synchronicity of this harrowing family feud to a blistering rhythm/rattle section, bottomlessly deep bass growls, layered (dis)harmonies and the ensuing inevitable explosion of raw aggression on stage and you have the uncanny formula for Tim’s Favourite.
If all of the above gives you a vague hunch that The Favourites don’t take themselves meritoriously enough then make no mistake about it: When it comes to their music and – perhaps even more so – their lyrics, they are dead serious. After on the previous 3 albums having gotten to the bottom of romantic topics such as Darwinism, the Holocaust, religion, science, free will, incompleteness, capitalism and the inexorcible feeling of not wanting to get up in the morning, on their forthcoming new album album (to be released on Jan. 16, 2024) they find themselves entertaining a doubt as to the benignity of what may possibly be the most democracy-disrupting force in the 21st century. The title (“amaConda”), by the way, is not misspelled. It’s not even so much about snakes, either.
But enough talk. Let the music, the lyrics, the vibe and the passion speak for themselves.
MY FRIEND THE ATOM
My Friend the Atom floats on contrasts, dissonance, dissidence. The band consists of four people with utterly different musical backgrounds, all of which are firmly embedded in the songs, which some characterise as “groove stoner crossover” and others as “funky metal” or “nineties heavy grunge”. It sounds recognisable and yet … then again it does not. The quartet is hard to label and that also makes MFTA somewhat unique. Heavy riffs, bouncing bass, tight drums and now a vocalist who belts out like an air raid siren in a bucket. Freedom is the common thread: lack of conventions and boxes, free-thinking propaganda unravelling, pointing out the elephant in the room, that’s what it’s all about.
Lately, they won the jury prize at Krotrockrally 2022, 3rd place at Leweit Competition 2022, the played the finals at Muzong 2021, featured at Face Your Underground compilation CD’s 19, 23 and 26.
And they don’t have to flatter themselves:
“No Name Collective” wrote: “My Friend The Atom refuses to draw inside the lines. They combine heavy guitar riffs, funky bass lines, groovy drum rhythms and a unique voice into one progressive funky rock blend.”
“It was a wall of sound, strong musicianship and the frontman has many qualities and a convincing presence, nice timbre and the right energy!”
DJ FLEDDY MELCULY
No introduction needed?!
Metal Hit Soundsystem!
PRESALE
€10 (All service costs included)
INFO, TICKETS & MORE CONCERTS:
www.rocknloadconcerts.be