From their
Facebook page:
Biography
Semantic Saturation is a progressive rock/metal project founded by guitarist Shant Hagopian, featuring progressive metal gurus Virgil Donati (drums), Ric Fierabracci (bass), with guests; Derek Sherinian (ex-Dream Theater - keyboards) and Andy Kuntz (Vanden Plas - vocals)
Shant Hagopian is a Canadian songwriter/guitarist, of Syrian/Armenian heritage. From 1996 to 2003 he specialized in Jazz guitar studies, and in 1997 he founded the progressive rock/metal band Nu.Clear.Dawn along with musicians in the Syrian city of Aleppo, as one of the first and very few bands to emerge out of the Syrian scene. Touring throughout the Middle East and playing in large festivals such as "Rock the Nations" in Istanbul along many international names like Pain of Salvation, Epica, Sentenced, Vanden Plas and more, their 2003 album "Poem of a Knight" which also was the first officially released metal record in Syria, received positive reviews from acclaimed webzines such as Metalstorm and the Metal Observer and others.
Shant moved to Canada in 2005 and recently started working on his solo project “Semantic Saturation” with the debut album “Solipsistic” which was released on January 21, 2013, featuring progressive rock and metal gurus such as drummer Virgil Donati, bassist Ric Fierabracci with guests; keyboardist Derek Sherinian (ex. Dream Theater) and vocalist Andy Kuntz (Vanden Plas).
Description
" The music will come to you and slap you hard in the face, a sweet punishment, painfully delicious. Music that goes beyond magic and reality, a prog-fairy-tale. Passion, wisdom, crazy theory… Solipsism. "
- Rocio Flores Bedoya, Lady Obscure (Jan 29, 2013)
" If you are an instrumental Prog Metal lover, this is the first masterpiece of 2013 and a real must! "
- Götz Morgenschweis, Power Prog (Jan 13, 2013)
" Shant is a great, fluid guitarist and has written some fantastic pieces that showcase his talents as well as the amazing musicianship of his compadres. "
- Jeff Stevens, Prog Metal Zone (Jan 7, 2013)
Some more info from their
BandCamp site....
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This is our debut release and debut bandcamp release.
Not too comfortable really with the idea of streaming the whole album even though the stream is a low quality mp3.
So we're going to assume that you'll eventually pay for the record, if you like it of course. I think you can manage to get a few bucks to support the project. After all, we spent thousands of dollars when creating it (yes from our own pockets), and in case you don't know, Semantic Saturation is an independent band/project, which means there's no record company or label who supported the project financially, but that also means all the sales will go directly to the band (and some to bandcamp of course)
If you like the album and want to hear more music from us in the future, support us!
http://www.shanthagopian.com
