''One'' is the debut studio album by British
progressive metal
Progressive metal (often shortened to prog metal) is a broad fusion music genre melding heavy metal music, heavy metal and progressive rock, combining the loud "aggression" and amplified electric guitar, guitar-driven sound of the former with t ...
band
Tesseract
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. Released on 22 March 2011, the album features six tracks. The third track, "Concealing Fate", was split into six parts for a total length of twenty seven minutes and forty seconds. This was Tesseract's only full-length release with vocalist Daniel Tompkins until his return in 2014. A bonus track entitled "Hollow" was released digitally to those who pre-ordered ''One'' from Century Media.
A live studio play through of "Concealing Fate" was also included as a bonus DVD along with the album. In September 2011, an instrumental version was released digitally and in October that year both the album and the instrumental version were released on vinyl as a double LP.
"Nascent" was released as a promotional single in February 2011, and music videos were released for both "Nascent" and "Deception". Acoustic renditions of "Perfection", "April" and "Origin" were featured on the band's second EP ''
Perspective'', which released the following year.
In 2024, ''
Loudwire
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'' elected it as one of the 11 best progressive metal debut albums.
Track listing
Personnel
;Tesseract
*Daniel Tompkins – lead vocals
*Acle Kahney – lead guitar, programming, mixing, digital editing, engineering
*James 'Metal' Monteith – rhythm guitar
*Amos Williams – bass, growls, backing vocals, artwork design, programming, mixing, digital editing, production
*Jay Postones – drums, percussion
;Additional personnel
*Francesco Cameli – engineering, mixing, production
*Rob Mestas – post-production, digital editing
*Greg Marriott and Ronan Phelan – additional engineering
*Mo Panella – digital editing
*Andrew Baldwin – mastering
Chart performance
References
2011 debut albums
Tesseract (band) albums
Century Media Records albums
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