TIGERPRIZM invites us to 'Watch The World Fall'
- Keely Naylon
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
In a track that’s full of punchy, threatening, bass heavy breakdowns and complex, flowing, guitar parts, TIGERPRIZM provides both despair and hope in this over 6 minute epic, ‘Watch The World Fall’.
TIGERPRIZM is the fresh solo project from Melbourne-based musician Frank Vadala beginning this year with the release of ‘Black Lotus’ in January. ‘Watch The World Fall’ released November 30 is the thrilling second single from this exciting new artist.
‘Watch The World Fall’ is gritty, with thundering basslines, and a truly impressive drum section. Vadala’s drums maintain the rhythm but more than that, he interweaves classic heavy drumming with a danceable-rhythm, making the track easy and fun to move to. It provides a satisfying ground for the more complex, interesting elements both vocally and from Vadala’s guitar parts.
While there is heavy, punchy, throat gripping chugging a la Pantera or Meshuggah, there’s an added layer of bright, clear and clean guitar over-top. It’s reminiscent of bands like Gojira, the mixing of heavy, murky sounds with clear and bright tones.
The melodic lines carry through a story, offering moments of hopelessness and anguish in the beginning only to bring the song to a close with a sense of clarity, a sense of rebirth and reawakening and a longing for change. Hope, in fewer words.
‘We’re overdosing dopamine.’ Vadala’s dissatisfaction with social media and how it has shifted the way people live today is a clear story throughout ‘Watch The World Fall’. He sings later in the track, ‘This is not how we’re supposed to live.’ It’s a clear rejection of the current social landscape and a call to embrace connection, rather than our screens.
Connection for him seems to be vital, and features predominantly in the latter half of the song. Vadala, like suggested in TIGERPRIZM’s artist bio, ‘explores the space between heaviness and melody’.
Not just musically, but it appears lyrically too. Whilst the track could stay rooted in a warranted doom spiral, Vadala makes the more interesting choice of providing hope. ‘We will stand after all and watch the world fall.’
Vocally, Vadala can match his guitar playing in range, masterfully performing both a growling, furious scream alongside a beautiful, sweet, yet sad melodic vocal line. In his more melodic moments Vadala’s voice feels full of character, like that of Pierce the Veil’s Vic Fuentes, emotive, passionate, and bursting with energy.
With only two tracks to its name TIGERPRIZM is an interesting and exciting new artist for the Melbourne scene delivering gritty nu-metal with a melodic edge. ‘Watch The World Fall’ is a hope-filled beginning for TIGERPRIZM.
