Music – Boston
The breakout band Mals Totem hails from Boston’s Berklee College of Music. The members’ various concentrations, from metal to jazz, contribute to the genre-blending product which has been compared to Radiohead and Mars Volta.
\"We will show you a door, behind which may or may not be velociraptors. They might be friendly animals, playfully dancing with you after a romantic dinner. Perhaps they\'re majestic companions, upon which you can ride over endless plains, as horns and trumpets shout triumph. Or maybe they\'re vicious and brutal hunters, deferring the option of a quick kill, and eating their prey alive, to an accelerating tempo of screams.
More likely, they\'re complex beasts, doing all of the aforementioned in the same song. For though the door stands before you, seeming to pose the question of what lies behind, what\'s most important is that they can open it.\"