While he is home taking care of his first child, prolific Darkest Hour guitarist Kris Norris has posted a new solo project. Dubbed Variant Qualities, the album is the most recent of new material from the guitarist who also released material under the name Locus Factor in 2005.

He explained:

In I think it was 1999 or so whenever Liquid Tension Experiment came out I wondered how awesome it would be to just get together and jam on stuff like that in the more dream theater progressive vein. Since I was in school and didnt have any time I decided to just do what they did write a jam record in a week and I just sat in my room and jammed out some stuff went back and added keyboards and drums and this was the result. It's got a kind of crude production since it was basically 4 tracked.

You can download the album for free here.