A darkly enveloping heavy prog-rock sound captivates from Puerto Rico-based band The Wrong Sides — impressing across a trio of instrumental new tracks, which will all appear on their upcoming new album.
“Elephant Spaceship” is the most recent, unveiling a dexterous range of rhythms alongside bursting guitars — excelling from fragmented excitement in the opening minute, to thunderous walls of psych-friendly distortion, like the compelling approach to the three-minute mark. The Wrong Sides show a strong tonal dynamic appeal within their prog-rock, metal-infused core, excelling in both rapidity and more contemplative build-ups.
Two additional tracks in “CHASING THƎ WЯONG INSANITY” and “Sour Sea” also showcase the band’s powerful sound. The former kickstarts with a sort of ’80s video game nostalgia, resembling fighting-game noises in its clanking percussion. A reveberating, upfront guitar presence brings it back into the modern rock realm thereafter, invigorating with excitable qualities throughout. “Sour Sea” is another standout, more relentless in its slabs of distortion and doses of excitable charisma. The Wrong Sides show a consuming hard-rocking vigor on these three tracks, having us firmly anticipating the album ahead.
The band elaborates on these tracks:
“Each of these tracks provided a way for us to explore the sonic landscape of this lineup. Joan Torres joined the band for “Sour Sea” and laid down a killer groove and melodic fretless bass solo. Afterwards, he contributed to the repertoire with his arrangement inspired by the original soundtrack to the classic video game, ‘Maximum Carnage’. We titled this track “Chasing the Wrong Insanity” because it felt like a perfect homage to the original tracks as well as them being on “the wrong side.” Most recently, we put together “Elephant Spaceship”. This track started with a simpler idea by Israel, which evolved as Jose’s grooves and Joan’s melodic fretless phrases filled in the rest of the picture to make up a galactic somewhat freeform prog metal jam.”
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“Elephant Spaceship” and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
