Begins Here by The Butterfly Effect

Begins Here, the 2003 debut full-length from Brisbane's the Butterfly Effect, is the sound of a band hitting the gas. Clint Boge sings, Kurt Goedhart plays guitar, Glenn Esmond is on bass and Ben Hall drums, and together they cut what still ranks as some of the heaviest music they've made, a bridge between the alternative metal of their self-titled EP and the more progressive sprawl of Imago that came next.

Boge's voice soars over slabs of churning, heavy riffing, and Flynn Gower, singer of fellow Australian prog rockers Cog, drops in on "Perception Twin". Triple J listeners bit hard: "One Second of Insanity" came 68th in the 2003 Hottest 100, and "Always" landed 99th a year later, with some copies of the album packing the "Always" single as a bonus disc. It reached number 23 on the ARIA chart, the band's first time in the top 100, and by mid-2006 it had gone gold with more than 35,000 sold.

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