Psychedelic-Prog Mad Robots (HU) Releases New Album

The hungarian progressive metal band Mad Robots have released their fourth studio album called Pareidolia. It will be expectedly the CD attachment of the hungarian HammerWorld magazin in April. They have shot a really particular music video for the song "Peculiar Ways" which you can check out by the link below.



"This one is going to be the opening song on the album. It's an unusually short and straight track, but of course it contains some twirls. The basic idea of the video comes from Pt, who was having a decisive role during the whole process. Joe Kozmér and him defined and accomplished the concept with a relatively big and super enthusiastic team. According to David Lynch's ars poetica (which is really close to us even in a musical way) the visual context, the settings and the scenes don't own any specific meaning, the thought is rather transmitted through impressions, athmospheres, dream-like images instead. These will make sense through the very own filter of the viewer/listener, therefore, the art will become complete only along with the personality of the individual."



"It's important to mention, that even though we take part in the video, we don't appear. It is on purpose, we wouldn't like to distract the viewer from the point. And the point for us in art is always the creation and not the creator. But in return people can guess who is who, and we have a fantastic main character (who is very famous in the underground sphere of Budapest), whom we would like to say thanks for taking the role!"



Mad Robots have declared to rockstar.hu about the new album: "The publication of our previous album, 'Rat King Racket' was followed by many blank periods. We talked about taking a 1 year break, but then instead, we released the 'Behind Everything' acoustic EP in 2018. We had some concerts every now and then in the meantime. The acoustic EP had the purpose to widen the tool repertory of the band. We had to learn playing silently, bot hat songwriting, both at the live concerts. Even though we made some ultimatum for ourselves to break up if we can't boost the songwriting speed, the writing of Pareidolia took 2 years anyway.

One of the biggest losses for the band in the last period was the departure of Attila (electronics). The harmony has been and always will be perfect humanly, just as the friendship. Attila has lost his interest gradually over the years and started to pay attention to other, important things in his life. He couldn't dedicate enough time to the band, so he rather quitted at the beggining of 2020."

They recorded the tracks for the new album in our rehearsal room formed to a studio, under the leadership of Péter Mári - as in the past, since Rat King Racket. The mixing and mastering have been made by Gábor Vári in Miracle Sound Studio.

"The things we learned from the acoustic circuit became an integral part of our music, which resulted an album with much wider dynamics and a novelty: monumentality. Nevertheless, the basis of our music is still the usual Mad Robots-canon: psychedelic, melodic, groovy music, where we place a strong emphasis on the searching of individual paths."

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