Pike vs the Automaton - Pike vs The Automaton

Pike vs the Automaton - Pike vs The AutomatonMatt Pike: "The album title, 'Pike vs. The Automaton', wasn't an ego thing for me. Billy and Jon said, "Dude, you should use your name in this. This is your solo project." I said, "I don't want to do that". The Automaton, in Greek mythology, is the big robot that's the guardian of the Gods, basically. It's a soulless, big machine named Talos. The big machine that's working against mankind at this moment. In 'Jason and the Argonauts', Jason and the

reached Number One in the UK singles charts and stayed there for a further 3 weeks

Intricate and wicked riffing coupled with down tuned guitars

and tone with attitude

Martin Luther King

The result is less a direct influence than the applying of hip-hop's inventiveness to longstanding paradigms of soul

and most importantly

Simpson was joined in the studio by Grammy Award-winning engineer David Ferguson (Johnny Cash

You want to get lost in that

Christian approached me asking if I would be willing to handle the lead guitar duties on Pre-Human Vaults' debut EP (back then unnamed

more sober and expansively lyrical

inspired by David Lynch

and Harry Warren and & Leo Robin's mischievous 1952 "Checkin' My Heart" (1952)