KING of His Castle

“TesseracT is always going to be the number one thing, everything revolves around TesseracT. But I’ve already started working on my second and third solo albums”.

“Putting a record out under your own name is a statement. There comes a lot of responsibility with that and I didn’t feel like I had enough pull or stature within the music industry.”

Four years ago, Daniel Tompkins wrote and recorded his debut solo album, Castles, and then put it on ice. In part, the decision was a practical one. At the time, the vocalist had only recently rejoined prog pioneers TesseracT, after quitting in 2011. The band had released their third album, Polaris, and headed off on a world tour. Logistically, it meant Tompkins’ solo material had to be left on the back burner, but his reluctance to release Castles also came from a personal place.

“Four years ago, I was still growing as an artist,” he admits. “I didn’t have a big