Artist: In My Coma
Based out of: Toronto, ON
Genre: Alternative/Hard rock/Progressive
For Fans Of: Queens of the Stone Age, Deftones, The Cure
Website: http://www.myspace.com/inmycoma
Sometimes the musical landscape out there gets frustrating to deal with: stale, uninspired and dull.
In My Coma is a breath of fresh air to bring much needed new blood into rock music, melding the sound of their influences with their own melodic and dark approach.
Vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Jasper James perfectly crafts a mix of dark, hook-laden rock in the vein of The Cure, Depeche Mode and The Smiths along with modern, heavier riffs that would sound at home on a Placebo or A Perfect Circle record.
While the intense lyrical themes and the downbeat mood of the songs are in gloomy Nick Cave territory, In My Coma are incredible song smiths, with chord progressions and melodies being anything but predictable but infectiously catchy at the same time.
Radio rock for heavy music fans who don’t normally like radio rock. They bring an arsenal of Kyuss-style riffs and bass grooves to rival Tool.
The comparisons help to give an idea of their sound, but they hardly do justice to the individual, fresh and innovative sounds In My Coma delivers.
The band has worked hard over the last several years and has become a sought-after staple of the late night Toronto music scene and rightfully so.
Thepitmusic was lucky enough to catch In My Coma at 2011 Canadian Music Week and witnessed what this band is capable live: loud, tight, near-hypnotic grooves and riffs with stellar musicianship and incredible stage presence.
Their full-length debut is to be released on iTunes this month, so if you enjoy any branch of rock, In My Coma has something for you on their pallet.
Look for its release and get yourself a copy, and check ‘em out live.
I agree. Great sound, great musicians, great art! Bought their single “Losing Sleep” and ended up with insomnia because the song has been playing in my head ever since.
So worth it.