Patience Is A Virtue

Touring, fatherhood, more touring and near-catastrophic vocal problems; it felt like anything and everything was standing in the way of Protest The Hero completing work on their latest studio album, Palimpsest. In the wake of their serialised release Pacific Myth, its arguably misfiring predecessor, the band were determined to come back with a bang. None of their four virtuosic members, however, could have foreseen the bumps along the road that would stutter their progress time and time again. Life had given them lemons and they just had to suck them up.

“It feels like we’ve been sitting on this record for what feels like forever, so we’re just excited to finally be able vomit it out into this world,” laughs a typically high-spirited Rody Walker, the, vocal issues began to flare up. Their persistence, ultimately, led to the cancellation of the rest of the tour and for the recording sessions, with only a small number of the vocals left to track, to be shelved. If the Canadian progressive metal act were going to make a triumphant return they were going to have to be patient.