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Belgian “zen metal” band new album & accompanying single & video clip out now.

 

– Watch amaConda – Watch Tim’s Favourite live @ Alcatraz

 

 

Ever Metal
"An almighty juggernaut of grunge, metal and psychedelia, "amaConda" is without a doubt one of the best albums I've heard this year.[...] It has stellar songwriting, professional production, and interesting lyrics. [...] This album manages to be a love letter to all the rock and metal titans out there, without compromising on its own originality. In short, it's a bloody good album, and Tim's Favourite are a bloody good band. Trust me when I say: you don't wanna miss out on this." 10/10
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Accidental Music reviewer
"Tim's Favourite are a band I feel should be better known beyond Western Europe and hopefully this magnificant album will get them the international recognition they so richly deserve. "AmaConda" is a fascinating and shining example of forward thinking and intelligently played progressive hybrid metal. This record is rich in eclectic musical style combinations and is the album's main strength. The title track which is nothing short of glorious demonstrates this perfectly. I cannot recommend this album enough. There are no weak tracks on it at all. This is a listening experience that all musical obsessives need in their collection."
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Rock Tribune
"'amaConda is de vierde plaat van het viertal en ondergetekende kan zichzelf wel voor de kop slaan deze band niet eerder ontdekt te hebben. [...] Deze plaat huisvest 11 stuk voor stuk oorvegen van songs van een band die dringend zijn marketingverhaal op punt dient te zetten om ervoor te zorgen dat het grote publiek hen te horen krijgt." 8.5/10
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Hell Spawn
"Na de verslavende werking van deze vierde langspeler durven we momenteel te zeggen dat "amaConda" misschien wel de heren hun beste werk to date is. Het is soms speciaal en zeker niet voor iedereen, maar wie zijn metal ietwat avontuurlijk wil, zit hier op de juiste plaats. Ga ze zeker eens live bekijken, want daar staan ze zeer stevig in hun schoenen. Het lange wachten is meer dan beloond!" 89/100
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Gitarist
"Tim's Favourite maakt al enkele jaren indruk met hun sound, die ergens tussen een avontuurlijkere versie van Alice in Chains en een toegankelijkere Tool in hangt, met flarden ninetiesmetal in de wat meer beukende riffs met wat meer groovy ritmes. Sterke nummers schrijven hoef je het Vlaamse kwartet niet meer te leren, maar wat misschien nog het meest opvalt aan hun vierde album 'amaConda' is het te gekke, crunchy slaggitaargeluid van Jan en Tim Pauwels."
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Rock Tribune
"Waarom ze dit zelf ‘zen metal noemen, ontgaat ons volledig , want de bijwijlen monumentale riffs in combinatie met de pompende bas en de strot van Jan Pauwels – nu eens ingetogen verhalend, dan weer fors uithalend – brengen ons allesbehalve in een slaperige ‘zen’-toestand."
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Tempelores
"Looking at their lyrics and song titles, they’re the politically intellectual version of Alice in Chains’s Dirt era."
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Snoozecontrol
"Tim’s Favourite brengt een sound die je in de ruime Belgische underground als uniek mag beschouwen."
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Zware Metalen
"Maatschappijkritische teksten, levenswijsheden en inzichten, zonder hoogdravende arrogantie, in een uitvoering die je radio niet zou overbelasten."
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Amped-up
"Enkele dagen voor aanvang van deze editie van Alcatraz werd mij ingefluisterd dat de band Tim’s Favourite zich wel eens zou kunnen ontpoppen tot een van de revelaties van deze editie. Een boude stelling, maar wel een waar een zekere kern van waarheid in schuilde, want Tim’s Favourite speelde een sterke set, waarbij voornamelijk het enthousiasme van de band aanstekelijk werkte. De stevige garagerock doorspekt met een aardige dosis grunge bracht La Morgue in vervoering, waarbij zeker de lang uitgesponnen instrumentale stukken duidelijk maakten dat deze heren naadloos op elkaar zijn ingespeeld."
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Tim’s Favourite brings you the “zen metal”: a somewhat idiosynchratic, slightly disorienting trip into grunge, metal, psychedelic rock and particularly uplifting lyrics delicately bulldozing your dearest certainties to bits and sending your neck muscles without further ado into the mandatory exorcist-like state of unholy flexibility. For fans of Tool, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Helmet, Prong, (early) Metallica, Meshuggah and, would you believe it, the (later) Beatles…

 

 

 

After on the previous 3 albums having gotten to the bottom of saucy topics such as Darwinism, religion, science, free will, incompleteness, capitalism and the inexorcible feeling of not wanting to get up in the morning (thank you, neck muscles), on their forthcoming new album (to be released on Jan. 16, 2024) Tim’s Favourite find themselves entertaining a profound doubt as to the benignity of one of the most democracy-disrupting mania in the 21st century. The title (“amaConda”), by the way, is not misspelled. It’s not even so much about snakes, either. Actually, the only link with real snakes we can think of is that on “amaConda”, more than ever before, Tim’s Favourite‘s “zen metal” not only has that typical trance-inducing edge, it also literally rattles like hell, the way rattle SNAKES do, to the extent that some have even started calling it “rattle metal”.

 

 

 

But, probably more to the point, as a teaser a video clip for the title track was released on Nov. 22 of last year.

 

Watch amaConda: 

 

And a few weeks ago a second clip was added to that, for the opening track of the album:

 

 

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Tim’s Favourite is a Belgian quartet mingling seemingly irreconcilable elements of grunge, thrash metal, progressive metal, psychedelic rock, stoner and, frankly, whatever they dig in their own basic metal mixer, resulting into an alloy they like to call “zen metal”. Think of it what you may, think Tool meets Alice in Chains meets early Metallica and then some.

The band’s diabolic name (the acronym ‘TIM’, e.g., stands for ‘The Infernal Majesty’) might put you on the wrong track about its not necessarily uplifting vibe, but there’s a thoroughly credible and pretty harrowing narrative behind it: One day, founding father Jan Pauwels discovered his three-year-old nephew Tim with a pair of headphones, in a state of devastating cognitive dissonance while listening to demos for what was to become the first album of his uncle’s metal project. The name for the project was found. In the following years, however, each new TF album only added to the little nephew’s infernal torment, eventually leaving him no option but to join the band bearing his name, so as to cunningly manipulate them into ditching any song material in his view short from pure perfection.

Add the synchronicity of this harrowing family feud to a blistering rhythm/rattle section, a growling bottom of the beast, layered (dis)harmonies and the ensuing inevitable explosion of raw aggression on stage and you have the uncanny formula for Tim’s Favourite.

 

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Four full length albums:

  • Noises from the Darkroom (2003)
  • Geometry for the Selfish Herd (2009)
  • We, the Willing (2018)
  • amaConda (2024)

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