Pain of Salvation Launch First Track Off "Remedy Lane Re:visited"

Pre-orders have started!

Swedish progressive rock/metal innovators Pain of Salvation will release a very special reissue version of their 2002 album Remedy Lane entitled Remedy Lane Re:visited (Re:mixed & Re:lived) on July 1st, 2016 via InsideOutMusic.

Therefore, Rope Ends (Remix) is being launched today as first impression of the release via a static clip via YouTube here:

With this release, Pain of Salvation re-visit their ground-breaking and genre-bending Remedy Lane album by teaming up with old companion and mixing engineer wizard Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Opeth, Symphony X, Devin Townsend, Haken, etc.) for a new sonic take on the original recordings as well as the intense full-album live performance from ProgPower USA Festival from 2014.

Both these Remedy Lane recordings will be available either together as 2CD Digipak format dubbed Remedy Lane Re:visited (Re:mixed & Re:lived) with a total playing time of 142 minutes or individually as Gatefold 2LP (+ Its corresponding album as bonus CD) or Digital Download versions, respectively called Remedy Lane Re:mixed (Playing time: 68 min.) and Remedy Lane Re:lived (Playing time: 74 min). The releases will come with revised artwork, expanded booklet design and extensive liner-notes by Daniel Gildenlöw.

The individual vinyl versions of both Remedy Lane Re:mixed and Remedy Lane Re:lived are available on black vinyl as well as in limited coloured runs on clear vinyl (100x copies from IOM webshop) or transparent orange (300x copies).

The pre-order for all physical formats is starting today from the IOM webshop here!

Additionally, Pain of Salvation continue working on a new studio album release entitled  In The Passing Light Of Day together with acclaimed producer Daniel Bergstrand (In Flames, Meshuggah, Strapping Young Lad, etc.) at Dug-Out Productions in Sweden.

Pain of Salvation Live 2016/2017:
28.07.2016 Breitenbach / Herzberg (Germany) - Burg Herzberg Festival
30.07.2016 Sibiu (Romania) - ARTmania Festival
07.-11.02.2017 Tampa (US) / Cozumel (Mexico) - Cruise To The Edge

Haken Launch Video for 'Initiate'

Haken recently announced the release of their fourth full-length studio album Affinity, on April 29th, 2016. Now they are pleased to reveal the video for the first single taken from the album, titled Initiate.
 
Check out the video here:

 
The band had this to say about the video:

"Initiate was the first tune from the album that got mixed by Jens. We all remember feeling incredibly excited from the very first listen. Affinity was finally coming to life! Initiate combines the atmospheric and the modern aspects of our sound and, as the album opener, sets the scene for what's to come."

You can now digitally pre-order the album here: http://www.insideoutmusicshop.com/b/haken/?sort=newest&image=large

Preorder the album on iTunes or Amazon and receive this track immediately: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/affinity/id1088397366 http://smarturl.it/affinityAMAZON

Haken online:www.hakenmusic.com
www.twitter.com/Haken_Official
http://www.facebook.com/HakenOfficial

Pre-Orders for the New Edison's Children Have Begun

With the anticipation of a new Marillion album on the horizon, Pete Trewavas is expected to be very busy during this next year. One of his other bands, Edison's Children, has decided to hold back for just a short while on their next concept album. They have, however, decided to release what they call a "bridge album", entitled Somewhere Between Here and Now...
 
This is a non-conceptual album featuring several songs that have been kicking around the Edison's Children laboratory for a few years but would never see the light of day otherwise. Not that they are bad songs; they simply don't fit the "concept albums" themes of the past or the future. They are however, quite exciting pieces of music in their own right, as fans who attended Montreal's Marillion Weekend 2015 found out during a surprise opening act.

Somewhere Between Here and Now... track list (not in song order):
Growing Down in Brooklyn
Someone Took My Heart Away
Winter Solstice (Instrumental)
Stranger in a Foreign Land
Ever Be Friends
The Darkness (Instrumental)
Sinner's Minus (Instrumental)
Where Were You (14:10) (mixed by Jakko Jakszyk)
Light Years (mixed by Jakko Jakszyk)
The Seventh Sign (mixed by Jakko Jakszyk)
The Longing (Orchestral version)
A Million Miles Away (Live during Marillion Wolves Weekend 2013)

Pre-order yours today:
http://edisonschildren.com/

Edison's Children are:
Eric Blackwood
Pete Trewavas

Follow them here:
http://edisonschildren.com/
https://www.facebook.com/EdisonsChildren

Big Big Train Return with New EP

Big Big Train returns with its first release since the universally acclaimed English Electric albums. This new EP, named Wassail, will be released on June 1st in CD and dowload format.

The Wassail EP contains three new songs (two of which are exclusive to the EP) and a live bonus track. The CD version is a digipak and includes an eight-page booklet featuring lyrics for the songs and artwork especially commissioned for the EP.

Tracklist:
1. Wassail (6.48)
2. Lost Rivers of London (6.02)
3. Mudlarks (6.13)
4. Master James of St George (Live At Real World) (6.14)

The CD version is now available to pre-order from Burning Shed:
https://www.burningshed.com/store/progressive/product/506/6614/.

Arena Unveil the Unquiet Sky + Tour Dates

Arena are pleased to announce that their new studio album The Unquiet Sky, is now available to pre-order.

The album will be officially released on April 27th and has artwork created by the ever talented Kylan Amos.

All pre-orders will be mailed out on March 23rd, one month ahead of the worldwide release. The only other way to get the album before its release will be at the merch desk during their tour.

The Unquiet Sky tracklist:
1- The Demon Strikes
2- How Did it Come to This?
3- The Bishop of Lufford
4- Oblivious to the Night
5- No Chance Encounter
6- Markings on a Parchment
7- The Unquiet Sky
8- What Happened Before
9- Time Runs Out
10- Returning the Curse
11- Unexpected Dawn
12- Traveller Beware

You can pre-order here: http://www.arenaband.co.uk/product/the-unquiet-sky-pre-order/

The band will also be celebrating their 20th anniversary and the new release on tour. Here are the dates:

March 19, 2015 The Borderline, London, England
March 20, 2015 The Citadel, St Helens, England
March 21, 2015 Montgomery Hall, Wath, England
March 22, 2015 Assembly Rooms, Leamington Spa, England
March 27, 2015 Spirit Of 66, Verviers, Belgium
March 28, 2015 Rock Ittervoort, Ittervoort, Netherlands
March 29, 2015 Bambi Galore, Hamburg, Germany
March 30, 2015 Hypothalamus, Rheine, Germany
March 31, 2015 Hedon, Zwolle, Netherlands
April 1, 2015 Colos-Saal, Aschaffenberg, Germany
April 2, 2015 Zeche Carl, Essen, Germany
April 3, 2015 Paulette Pub Rock, Nancy, France
April 4, 2015 Wollfabrik, Heidelberg, Germany
April 5, 2015 Bergkeller, Reichenbach, Germany
April 6, 2015 a38, Budapest, Hungary
April 7, 2015 Majestic, Bratislava, Slovakia
April 9, 2015 Rialto, Katowice, Poland
April 10, 2015 Proxima, Warsaw, Poland
April 11, 2015 Blue Note, Poznan, Poland
April 12, 2015 Reigen, Vienna, Austria
April 13, 2015 Ausburg, Germany
April 14, 2015 Z7, Pratteln, Switzerland
April 15, 2015 Club Il Giardino, Verona, Italy
April 17, 2015 Bikini Bar, Barcelona, Spain
April 18, 2015 Minnuendo, Peralta, Spain
April 19, 2015 Sala Lemon, Madrid, Spain
April 20, 2015 Paradise Garage, Lisbon, Portugal
April 22, 2015 Connexion, Toulouse, France
April 23, 2015 Marché Gare, Lyon, France
April 24, 2015 Divan du Monde, Paris, France
April 25, 2015 Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
April 26, 2015 Centre Culturel, Soignies, Belgium

Arena website: http://www.arenaband.co.uk/

Pre-Order for The Psychedelic Ensemble New Release

Just over a year ago The Psychedelic Ensemble released The Tale of the Golden King, which found itself on many Top and Best of 2013 charts and polls worldwide, including here.

The Psychedelic Ensemble is now back with a fifth album, The Sunstone. The new release features TPE, vocalist Ann Caren, orchestra, and guest appearances from Michael Wilk of Steppenwolf and others. The Sunstone will be released in January 2015, and The Psychedelic Ensemble has just  announced that pre-orders are now available at their official website.

Visit The Psychedelic Ensemble Official Site for exciting pre-order options and savings.
http://www.thepsychedelicensemble.com/ThePsychedelicEnsemble_TheSunstone_PreOrder.html

World Turned Upside Down by Trojan Horse

Bad Elephant Music is pleased to announce the opening of pre-orders for World Turned Upside Down, the much-anticipated album release from Salford's finest, Trojan Horse -  now available to pre-order on CD and digital download from Bad Elephant Music's sales site.

Marking a significant progression from their eponymous debut, World Turned Upside Down was "conceived on a nourishing diet of Robert Wyatt ‘Rock Bottom’, Soft Machine ‘Volume 2’, a new found appreciation of dub reggae, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Elliott Smith, Earth Wind & Fire ‘I Am’, Parenthood, Tears For Fears ‘Songs From The Big Chair’, Cardiacs, and social injustice".

The album captures much of the excitement of Trojan Horse's captivating live shows, and is a must-have for any lover of impossible-to-categorise music as well as rock fans everywhere.

The album will be released on 13th October. Visit the BEM sales site at http://music.badelephant.co.uk/album/world-turned-upside-down-2 to place your pre-order now!

The Tangent Pre-Pre-Orders Now Being Taken

Pre-pre orders started last week on the new album by The Tangent.

A Spark In The Aether won't be out until 2015, but here's your chance to get involved early, hear work in progress and help the band carry out their work. Also available is the pre-order of Andy Tillison's side project Multiplex!!

Says Andy Tillison:

"This is an album that seeks to return to the core of what The Tangent means to me... after our big orchestral opus that we delivered in Le Sacre Du Travail we're, to an extent, reining in the instrumentation to the 5 piece electric Prog Rock band and focussing a little more on that all-important second word of the genre name 'Rock'. At least for the first half!"

I think there's an element of it being The Music That Died Alone 2. A lot of the subject matter in the lyrics to the first few songs is revisiting the state of Progressive Rock 12 years after the original album was made. That's obviously been a big big change. There's no apparent sign of the music being dead at all... but I still feel we have dangers and that we're not out of the woods yet. We all have a part to play in the development of this genre and becoming stilted and over safe is not the way to play this game. We need to support the younger guys as much as possible."

The musicians lined up for the project are:
Andy Tillison Diskdrive: Keyboards & Vocals
Luke Machin: Guitar
Jonas Reingold: Bass Guitar
Theo Travis: Saxes & Flutes
Morgan Agren: Drums

And there will likely be a couple of nice guest appearances on the album too.

Visit www.thetangent.org to make your order! And remember that The Tangent album will be available at normal pricings nearer the time of release. This is really for the Mega Fans who want to take part.

Citizen Cain's Stewart Bell to Release Solo Project

The first of the Citizen Cain solo projects, Stewart Bell’s The Antechamber Of Being (Part 1), is nearing completion. The musical side of the project is finished, the recording of the vocals is well underway and mixing of the completed tracks has begun.

Below is a promo video announcing the first of the guest vocalists involved: Ayreon's Arjen Lucassen. You can now pre-order the album to help fund the final stages of this project:

CD Pre-orders

Digital download Pre-order

And, if you wish, you can also help by making a donation (there is an option to “add donation” on the “cart” page once you place your order). This album will be self-published and released in Sept ’14 so your pre-order/ donation will help things in a big way.

Glass Hammer Premier New Song on YouTube

American proggers Glass Hammer, whose new album Ode to Echo will be releasesd next week, have released a track off of their newest opus on youtube.

Crowbone features music by Fred Schendel and lyrics by Viking Saga author Robert Low.

 

There is still time to pre-order a signed copy of the new album through Glass Hammer's website.

 

http://www.glasshammer.com/pages/store.html

IQ Announce Album Title and Release Date

It has been five years since the release of their critically acclaimed album Frequency. Now we finally have a news about the new album.

This week UK based band IQ, through their Facebook page, have been trickling information about their upcoming album. First it was the look of their new logo. Then came new dates for their tour of Europe, and a look at parts of the album cover. And now we finally have the title of the new album and snippets of the music in the form of a youtube music add.

The Road of Bones will be released in May 2014 and pre-orders are now being taken via Giant Electric Pea, IQ's own label. Order now!

 

To pre-order:

www.iq-hq.co.uk

www.gep.co.uk

 

 





The Fierce and the Dead's New Single Out

ARK!!

 

As of yesterday, Monday October 20th, you can now buy the single 'Ark', taken from The Fierce and the Dead's new album Spooky Action. As well as the main track you'll also get a cracking remix from the man, the legend Emmett Elvin (Chrome Hoof / Guapo / Knifeworld), and a collaboration theyrecorded with James Orman from Silvery called 'The Icy Tundra of Tharg'. It's pretty out there, which is a good thing.

 

You can watch the video Kev Feazey, Matt Stevens, Stuart Marshall and Steve Cleaton made for 'Ark' over on our Youtube channel.

 

So head over to the Bad Elephant Music site and get yours downloaded right now! 

http://music.badelephant.co.uk/album/ark

 

And remember there's still time to pre-order the new album before it's release date on November 4th and bag yourself a bonus live track, or a discounted CD/T-shirt bundle. 

 

 

Spooky Action track list:

1. Part 4

2. Ark

3. Let's Start a Cult

4. Pyramid Hat

5. I Like It, I'm Into It

6. Intermission 3

7. Spooky Action

8. And the Bandit

9. Entropy

10. Part 5

11. Chief

 

Digital pre-orders here:http://music.badelephant.co.uk/album/spooky-action

 

CD and T-Shirt pre-orders here:http://themerchdesk.com/shop/index.php?route=product/category&path=136_163

 

So get involved!

 

info@fierceandthedead.com
fierceandthedead.com
Spooky Action Pre-orders
fierceandthedead.bandcamp.com
twitter.com/tfatd
facebook.com/fierceandthedead
youtube.com/user/TFATD