by Blake | Mar 24, 2017 | Prog Report
Anathema are back after an extended hiatus since releasing 2014’s spellbinding Distant Satellites. Their eleventh full-length, The Optimist is due for release on June 9th through Kscope.
Anathema, led by brothers Daniel and Vincent Cavanagh, along with drummer John Douglas, singer Lee Douglas, bassist Jamie Cavanagh and keyboardist Daniel Cardoso began recording The Optimist in the winter of 2016 at Attica Audio in Donegal, Ireland and then finished at Castle Of Doom studios in Glasgow with producer Tony Doogan [Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian, Super Furry Animals] at the helm.
You can check out a preview of The Optimist on this short trailer:
Tracklisting:
32.63N 117.14W (01:18)
Leaving It Behind (04:27)
Endless Ways (05:49)
The Optimist (05:37)
San Francisco (04:59)
Springfield (05:49)
Ghosts (04:17)
Can`t Let Go (05:00)
Close Your Eyes (03:39)
Wildfires (05:40)
Back To The Start (11:41)
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by Blake | Mar 23, 2017 | Prog Report
Genesis guitar virtuoso and Hall of Fame legend, Steve Hackett is set to release his latest album ‘The Night Siren’ tomorrow, March 24th, 2017 through InsideOut Music (Sony). As implied in the title, ‘The Night Siren’ is a wake-up call… the warning of a siren sounding in this era of strife and division. The new album features the already released singles, “Behind the Smoke” and “In The Skeleton Gallery”.
Today, with his European tour having just begun, a live rehearsal video of the instrumental track ‘El Niño’ has been launched, and you can see that here:
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by Blake | Mar 23, 2017 | Prog Report
For Spock’s Beard’s 4th album, the group decided to make some headway commercially with an album of a few long songs and more short songs than on previous albums. The long 21 minute epic “The Healing Colors of Sound” was also broken up into 7 tracks on the cd. The band would release the track “Skin” as a single.
While not ranked alongside V and Snow as one of their best albums, there are a number of great songs on the collection including the title track, “Crack the Big Sky” and “The Healing Colors of Sound”.
Bassist Dave Meros talked about Day For Night with The Prog Report, “After Beware Of Darkness there was a feeling that we should try to crossover into the rock market a little more, so Kindness Of Strangers did that to a degree, and then Day For Night did it even more so. Day For Night got a little blowback from the hard line proggers for being “too pop”, but we thought Day For Night was an excellent record, and Day For Night was also the album where we first started touring in Europe and there was a lot of excitement there, so it wasn’t all bad news.”
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by Blake | Mar 22, 2017 | Prog Report
The Dear Hunter are about to begin their tour with Coheed and Cambria on April 11th in Seattle. The tour runs through May but in between the band have set up a few headlining shows. The group is touring in support of their recent release ‘Act V:Hymns with the Devil in Confessional’.
Tour dates are listed in the image below.
For the full list of dates with Coheed and Cambria visit: http://thedearhunter.com/
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by Blake | Mar 22, 2017 | Prog Report
U.S. Progressive Metal pioneers FATES WARNING continue to tour in support of their much praised latest release “Theories Of Flight” and are now announcing a first run of dates for the album in North America in June.
FATES WARNING vocalist Ray Alder checked in with the following comment:
“We are very excited to finally announce the first leg of the US tour for ‘Theories Of Flight’. We know that this news has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here and we are ready to once again hit the States in support of a new album. The European tour was amazing, and we are anticipating nothing less from our home crowd. We can’t wait to see our fans again. Get your tickets now. Thank you all!”
Here is a list of upcoming dates for FATES WARNING:
FATES WARNING – Live 2017:
Fri 06/02/2017 London (UK) – Underworld
Sat 06/03/2017 Vaureal (France) – Le Forum
Sun 06/04/2017 Gelsenkirchen (Germany) – Rock Hard Festival
Mon 06/05/2017 Berlin (Germany) – BiNuu
Tue 06/06/2017 Bremen (Germany) – Tivoli
Thu 06/08/2017 Solvesborg (Sweden) – Sweden Rock Festival
Sun 06/11/2017 Poughkeepsie, NY – The Chance
Tue 06/13/2017 Clifton Park. NY – Upstate Concert Hall
Fri 06/16/2017 New York, NY – Gramercy Theater
Sat 06/17/2017 Patchogue, NY – 89 North
Tue 06/20/2017 Buffalo, NY – Ironworks
Thu 06/22/2017 Cleveland, OH – Agora Ballroom
Fri 06/23/2017 Detroit, MI – Token Lounge
Sat 06/24/2017 Joliet, IL – The Forge
Sun 06/25/2017 Milwaukee, WI – Shank Hall
Tue 06/27/2017 Pittsburgh, PA – The Rex
Fri 06/30/2017 Hartford, CT – Webster Theater
Sat 07/01/2017 Allston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
08/03-05/2017 Wacken (Germany) – Wacken Open Air
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