''Perspective'' is the second EP by British

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band

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, released on 21 May 2012. The EP is not a metal record, instead it consists of new renditions of four songs from ''

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'': a newly edited version of "Eden" called "Eden 2.0" and acoustic versions of the songs "Perfection", "April", and "Origin". It also includes a cover of

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's " Dream Brother". It is the band's first and only release with vocalist Elliot Coleman, who left the band in June 2012, mere weeks after the release of Perspective. The cover is similar to that of the band's album ''One'', but whereas the

tesseract In geometry, a tesseract or 4-cube is a four-dimensional hypercube, analogous to a two-dimensional square and a three-dimensional cube. Just as the perimeter of the square consists of four edges and the surface of the cube consists of six ...

on the cover of that album is grey, the featured tesseract on ''Perspective'' is blue and with an ethereal background. The EP has a special edition on iTunes where there is an instrumental version of each song.

Track listing

Personnel

;Tesseract *Elliot Coleman – lead vocals *Acle Kahney – lead guitar, production *James 'Metal' Monteith – rhythm guitar *Amos Williams – bass, growls, backing vocals, production *Jay Postones – drums, percussion

References

2012 EPs Century Media Records EPs Tesseract (band) albums {{2010s-metal-album-stub