The first word that comes to mind when I hear Twelve Foot Ninja is unlikely.
I had never heard a Djent band (rhythm metal) have so much fun with a lot of musical references totally foreign to their style. The first time I listened to them was with this piece:
0:38: The music turns into a bossa atmosphere with the small piano lines that go well. And then it goes into funk. WHAT
What's cool is that each of their changes in musical style is really well done, and above all well mastered. The super barracked drummer who has to break his chopsticks with each snare drum stroke knows very well how to do salsa or pop, and it really shows the level of the musicians.
The proof in their acoustic sessions where they manage to rearrange their own pieces for a completely different result:
After 2 EPs (New Dawn in 2008 and Smoke Bomb in 2010), Twelve Foot Ninja released their first album of 12 tracks in 2012 (!), Silent Machine.
Their name circulates quite quickly in the metal world thanks to their originality. They are still gaining notoriety thanks to a successful crowdfunding for the clip of Ain't that a Bitch, full of cinematographic references and which features their friends from the group Periphery, reference in this musical style.
In November 2015 they launched a new crowdfunding campaign for their next album, Outlier, released on August 26th.
The rewards, between the classic shipments of cds and autographed posters went up to a barbecue with all the members of the band and a private concert, or a game of Halo in the tourbus. Pretty cool.
I will not dwell on this beautiful video of the song One Hand Killing, which launched the crowdfunding campaign for the new album.
The images speak for themselves.
The crowdfunding campaign having been a huge success, the Australian band will be able to give a European follow-up to their tour in the United States.
This is an opportunity to discover this band still too little known but which nevertheless brings, with humor, a breath of fresh air on the current metal scene.
