SINCE HE FIRST joined Tesseract in 2009, Dan Tompkins has been one of the leading voices of British prog metal.
The Milton Keynes band’s debut album, One, inspired a wave of copycats, but none could mimic the experimental yet anthemic songcraft, nor Dan’s evocative singing. The vocalist left in 2011 and worked on a litany of projects, from Skyharbor to White Moth Black Butterfly, but returned three years later for a trilogy of excellent albums. With Tesseract’s 2023 masterpiece, War Of Being, still fresh and a European tour looming, we asked Dan all your burning questions.
What’s the weirdest thing you saw while on duty as a police officer?
Ali Masser, email
“It was a domestic situation where a guy just would not stop masturbating. Ha ha ha! His wife said, ‘You need to get him out
