The Contortionist

The Contortionist represents fearlessness in musical expression, designed to please artists as much as the audience. This band makes progressive metal music, anchored in the heavy sounds that first drew the individual players to the stage, yet unmoored by convention or expectation.

On Clairvoyant, the band’s distinctive fingerprints remain, even as their atmospheric flourishes broaden to encompass ever-richer textures and mine the beauty of simplicity. The Contortionist integrates seemingly disparate worlds to create their own sound, focusing on tone, vibe, color, and atmosphere.

The band’s first two records, Exoplanet (2010) and Intrinsic (2012), are monstrously heavy, though no less ambitious than their newer and more expansive creative declarations.