Their music is considered within a 'subgenre' called djent characterised for the use of polimeters, syncopated riffs, polyphonic grooves, palm-mute chords, etc. which requests some technical difficulty for the musicians. Both guitarrists use extended range eight-string guitars which gifts their sound with a more wide diversity of notes and textures, this alongside their theoric knowledge and progressive style of composing results in emotional rollercoaster journeys where you go through different phases of moods and rythms that catch you inadvertently, it's so unexpected it turns difficult to follow the tempo which is funny to experience, and their sound is beautiful, it has so many layers and I can get lost trying to keep up with everything I perceive. This kind of music entertains me because every time you listen to the same song the experience is definitely not the same, and I feel like the way the compositions are constructed helps me to concentrate thinking in only one thing.
They came for the first time (and only... for now) to Santiago de Chile in 2017, promoting their fourth studio album called The Madness of Many which is incredible, by the way. I went with a friend who also likes the band as much as I do, we met at his house and took an acid trip that had the face of Felix the Cat, took the bus and arrived thirty minutes later at the theatre. We thought the theatre was awful for this kind of concert because it was all numbered seats and we wanted to dance, so we stayed up anyways and enjoyed the show like if we were the only two crazy persons inside that theater going nuts. Two friends of my friend joined us before the show but they stayed in their seats so I lived all the experience with him. The effects of the acid began while Octopus was playing, a chilean progressive metal band who were invited to the concert. I had listen some of their songs before and I liked them, and their performance was much better than I expected, it was a good start. They played like forty-five minutes and after a break the members of Animals as Leaders appeared on stage and began their show. I just can't explain with a few words how wonderful, crazy and astonishing it was, we were having the joy of our lives. But there's a moment I think it's worth to share: during a guitar solo, at the exact time when Tosin played a powerful and breaking high note, his eyes looked up where we were watching them and I promise we made eye contact for an instant. After that short moment, me and my friend looked each other at the same time with confused faces and asked "did that actually happened?". We both felt the same, we saw the same, we knew we made eye contact with Tosin. Probably it wasn't like that but I don't care because that moment was magical. After the show we were still very excited and the stairs were melting, we met my friend's friends outside the theater, smoked some weed and then me and my friend went to another friend's apartment to end the trip and rest in a safe place after a crazy night with beautiful music. I'm ready for their return, please come back soon!
As a side note, when we were on our friend's apartment my friend was talking to her like non stop while I was laying on the carpet laughing while I was seeing infinite cats appearing on the textures of the roof in infinite forms which wouldn't stop ever. I really enjoyed that moment and literally dropped a tear of joy. Thank you, Felix the Cat!
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