DHP Family proudly presents...
Intervals
+ The Intersphere
+ Blight Town
Live at The Bodega
Sunday 28 September 2025
14+
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Intervals exist as the unbound and unapologetic creative expression of Aaron Marshall. The progressive guitar rock faithful revere Marshall for his virtuoso chops and melodic prowess in equal measure. His distinctive character and musical personality shine throughout the heady, catchy, and transcendent instrumental compositions found across the ever-growing catalog of Intervals albums.
The music is a window into the Toronto, Ontario, guitarist’s mind, body, and soul. Songs like “Libra,” “5-HTP,” “Belvedere,” “I’m Awake,” and “mnemonic” rank among the most popular in the genre. Metal Injection describes Intervals as “catchy-as-hell shred.” Sonic Perspectives declared the band’s fourth album, 2020’s Circadian, “strikes the perfect balance between shred, songwriting, and melody.”
“Aaron Marshall is my favorite guitar player of today,” Mammoth WVH’s Wolfgang Van Halen told Guitar World. “An important thing my dad always said: when it comes to soloing, you should be able to hum the solo. On top of Aaron’s ridiculous chops, he manages to work in the catchiest melodies.”
“We really prioritize having a strong, memorable, melodic identity in each song,” Marshall explains. “That’s something that matters to me more than flashy, acrobatic, technique-driven things.”
A trio of gifted touring and recording musicians surround Marshall as they collectively share Intervals’ songs with the world. Drummer Nathan Bulla (Auras), bassist (and Berklee College of Music grad) Jacob Mansky, and guitarist Travis LeVrier (ex-Scale The Summit, Entheos) each bring their studied musicianship to the Intervals live experience. They consistently stun audiences at festivals and in clubs and theaters around the world, including on celebrated treks with the likes of Spiritbox, TesseracT, Animals As Leaders, Polyphia, Periphery, Protest The Hero, and Between The Buried And Me.
A man beloved by media outlets like Ultimate Guitar and Premier Guitar, Marshall’s easygoing, conversational talent, philosophical approach, and DIY spirit results in some of the most engaging episodes of popular podcasts, including The Punk Rock MBA, The Downbeat, and 100 Words or Less. That personality shines brightly in his playing, demonstrated brilliantly across 2024’s memory palace.
The earliest Intervals offerings, including two EPs and 2014’s full-length debut, A Voice Within (the sole album with lead vocals), were decidedly heavy and aggressive. Heralded by MetalSucks as “fantastic” and “lacking virtually nothing,” 2015’s The Shape of Colour ventured in a new direction.
“I made a deliberate choice to almost start over a bit,” Marshall recalls. “I started writing songs on six-string guitars, in standard tuning, to see if I could take away the allure of the things I relied on. The idea was to go back to basics, and since then, I’ve been heading back down the ladder, so to speak.”
Intervals' fourth album was appropriately titled The Way Forward. “Employing many of the same techniques as technical progressive metal but in a major-key, upbeat framework has been Intervals’ calling card,” wrote Metal Hammer. “[The Way Forward] is a purer distillation of [Marshall’s] aim.”
Marshall made a bold choice with 2020’s Circadian in coproducing the album with Sam Guaiana (Silverstein, Neck Deep, Holding Absence), whose discography didn’t include anything like Intervals. The result was an album Marshall sees as the definitive Intervals sound taken a leap forward.
“With [Circadian], Intervals cement themselves as one of the heavy scene’s most masterful and creative instrumental artists,” wrote Distorted Sound. In a similarly glowing 9/10 review, Ultimate Guitar observed, “Aaron displays a huge amount of talent [and] technical ability, but also taste.”
“I discovered technical metal quite a way into my journey with the guitar,” he explains. “It started with the pop-punk bands of the early 2000s. I see many bands in our world working with the same people. I worked with a lot of my favorite players in the genre in terms of producers and engineers prior to making Circadian. It’s no sleight to them. It was a deliberate effort to work with somebody who approaches the sound differently. We needed to do something to set us apart. Sam gets what I’m trying to say with the music, and it’s a pairing that also makes sense given my earliest influences.”
memory palace brilliantly celebrates the best of Intervals’ past, present, and future. The album is diverse, uplifting, and crushingly heavy. Produced by Guaiana once again, memory palace includes collaborations with KOAN Sound (“neurogenesis”), J3PO (“galaxy brain”), and OBLVYN (“lacuna”).
“The whole record has an aggressive urgency to it,” Marshall says. “It’s very heavy. It’s still highly melodic and colorful, but it beats ass, that’s for sure. It sounds massive, and it’s really hook-oriented. It’s an expansive, highly modernized, refined, and polished take on what we’ve been doing all along.”
Fiercely independent and precision-focused but never lacking in uplifting vibe and fun, Intervals continues to grow from Marshall’s strong roots in authenticity, instinct, and trusting one’s gut.
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