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Belgian “zen metal” band 4th album & accompanying single & video clip out.
– Watch amaConda – Watch Tim’s Favourite live @ Alcatraz
Baseline
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, on their newest album (released on Jan. 16, 2024) Tim’s Favourite find themselves entertaining a profound doubt as to the benignity of one of the most (if not thé most) democracy-disrupting forces 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 trademark trance-inducing “zen metal” also literally rattles like hell, the way rattle SNAKES do, to the extent that some have even started calling it… “rattle metal”… That aside, a comparison of the aforementioned democracy-disrupting force to an all-choking reptile, well, that might not even be a completely out-of-the-blue interpretation of the title either.
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 later a second clip was added to that, for the opening track of the album:
Watch Connect and Divide:
Live Pics
Bio
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.
Live Clips
Feats
Four full length albums:
- Noises from the Darkroom (2003)
- Geometry for the Selfish Herd (2009)
- We, the Willing (2018)
- amaConda (2024)
More than 100 gigs, including:
- Alcatraz Metal Festival 2021 with Kreator, Epica, Jinjer, Stake…
- Podium In Terneuzen 2022 with Bizkit Park
- Rock Affligem (2023) with Channel Zero, Fleddy Melculy…
- Check out Tour for more upcoming gigs.
Contact
General info: info@timsfavourite.com
Bookings: bookings@timsfavourite.com
Or:
+32 (0) 472 53 58 58 (Jan)
+32 (0) 474 17 52 28 (Tim)