★★★★★
Sacramento trio Tera Melos traffic in genres that are often viewed as the opposite of punk, i.e., prog, math-rock, post-hardcore. But when done properly, these styles generate all of the enthusiasm of punk while turning its traditional logic about formal training on its head: What if your love of music inspires you to train to the point where you can accomplish anything you want...
- pitchfork.com
2013-05-13
★★★★★
New Hampshire trio Comma were tapped to open this solid pairing of Sargent House math-rock acts Tera Melos and This Town Needs Guns. No offense to the guys, but it seemed like a bit of a coup-the band fit in fine, with some finger-tapping and time signature-changing tendencies, and the music was occasionally cool, but flat, indistinct vocals and largely innocuous musical ideas made the set relatively uninteresting...
- www.punknews.org
2013-05-08
★★★★★
For a good portion of today, I spent time with the untitled debut album from Tera Melos. Originally released in 2005, (reissued in 2010 by their current label, Sargent House), the album is comprised of eight intellectually conceived instrumental "melodies" that sound more calculated and problematically resolved than composed...
- www.noripcord.com
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Tera Melos X'ed OutBy Scott A. GrayOn 2010 masterpiece Patagonian Rats, the audio science shamans of Tera Melos threw down the gauntlet on what three humans armed with only traditional rock band instrumentation could achieve via the equal application of prodigious technical know-how and boundless creativity...
- exclaim.ca
2013-04-24
★★★★★
Review Summary: Accessibility and technicality intertwined. If I was to say anything about the music of X'ed Out , it would be that it acquaints us with a new and improved style. This is the album when we witness the sound Tera Melos has been struggling to develop, finally reach its culminating fruition. Every sound and concept that's explored here is fabricated and executed with an inspired ingenuity that has been, quite frankly, absent in the band's recent efforts...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2013-04-24
★★★★★
Zoo Weather is the latest release from the Sacramento trio Tera Melos, and it is for the most part an EP that relies on your preconceptions of what it is that Tera Melos does. In many ways that previous statement is a compliment but in other ways, well, some might be disappointed with this latest effort. You may have already figured out that this is not the alt-country-metal-folk-experimental album that some have expected by now; rather, this is Tera Melos doing what they know best...
- www.adequacy.net
2011-03-28
★★★★★
Extreme technicality has traditionally never gone hand in hand with pop music, regardless of how talented those working within this sphere may be. There's something about guys (usually guys...) shredding away on their guitars that, more often than not, gets in the way of those old fashioned concepts of 'melody' and 'structure'. Having said that, Tera Melos are not the first band to attempt to combine math rock influences with poppier elements...
- drownedinsound.com
2010-11-08
★★★★★
There are only a handful of bands that I'd much rather go see live rather than listen to their record, and Tera Melos is one of them. It's how I came to them in the first place, and if I hadn't, I'm not sure I would be here telling you why I think they're great. There's something about the way they perform the music live that cannot be totally captured in the studio. It's not just this new release... I've felt that way about most of their recorded material...
- www.crawdaddy.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Sound: Bursting out of the Sacramento, CA scene with mind-boggling guitar taps, jazz drumming that could rival Gene Krupa, and a wild stage show dangerous to anyone who dares get too close, Tera Melos is a musical force to be reckoned with. Seamlessly interweaving elements of free-jazz, high-energy punk, and electronica, TM is a sonic assault ready to give the "prog-music" scene a much needed injection of energy and focus...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
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