Headspace Announce New Album

Headspace, the band featuring Damian Wilson (Threshold) & Adam Wakeman (Ozzy Osbourne, Snakecharmer), recently announced the release of their second album All That You Fear Is Gone on February 26th, 2016.

The band, completed by guitarist Pete Rinaldi (Hot Leg) & bassist Lee Pomeroy (It Bites, Steve Hackett), and new drummer Adam Falkner (Babyshambes, Dido, One Eskimo) have also launched the first track to be taken from the album, and you can listen to Your Life Will Change here:

Guitarist Pete Rinaldi had this to say:

"This album picks up where I Am Anonymous finishes. The process of each of us adding their creativity to the tracks has made this something we are really proud of. All That You Fear Is Gone features the debut of my good friend Adam Falkner on drums who has done a fantastic job making his mark on this record, we are all looking forward to bringing it to live audiences."

The full track-listing for the album is as follows:
01. Road to Supremacy
02. Your Life Will Change
03. Polluted Alcohol
04. Kill You With Kindness
05. The Element
06. The Science Within Us
07. Semaphore
08. The Death Bell
09. The Day You Return
10. All That You Fear Is Gone
11. Borders and Days
12. Secular Souls

All That You Fear Is Gone is the follow-up to 2012's debut album I Am Anonymous, once again produced by the band and mixed by Jens Bogren. Expect more information, including tour dates, in the coming months.

Headspace Online:
www.headspaceonline.com
www.twitter.com/headspaceonline
www.adamwakeman.co.uk
www.twitter.com/wakemanofficial

The Gathering's TG25 Live Out Now

As of today The Gathering's new live album TG25: Live at Doornroosje is available for purchase.

Celebrating their 25th anniversary as a band, they recorded this album live with the help of past and present members. This release comes as a double CD and also as a triple vinyl. The CD version is a beautiful designed digi-file with 52 page booklet filled with photo's made that day, by several photographers, among them Marcus Moonen (known for The Gathering's famous Heroes for Ghost video).

The LP version consist of a triple coloured (limited) or black vinyl, in 3 separate sleeves, all fitting nicely in a slipcase. Also included with a 30x30 cm 16 page booklet with live photo material.

Tracklisting:
CD1
1.Saturnine
2.Strange Machines
3.Meltdown
4.Nighttime Birds
5.The Mirror Waters
6.King for a Day
7.Even the Spirits Are Afraid
8.Broken Glass
9.Heroes for Ghosts
CD2
1.Afterwords
2.Amity
3.On Most Surfaces (Inuit)
4.Paper Waves
5.Leaves
6.In Motion #1
7.Travel
8.Waking Hour
9.I Can See Four Miles

3LP Tracklisting:
side A:
1.Saturnine
2.Strange Machines
3.Meltdown
side B:
1.Nighttime Birds
2.The Mirror Waters
3.King for a Day
side C:
1.Even the Spirits Are Afraid
2.Broken Glass
3.Heroes for Ghosts
side D:
1.Afterwords
2.Amity
3.On Most Surfaces (Inuit)
4.Paper Waves
side E:
1.Leaves
2.In Motion #1
3.Travel
side F:
1.Waking Hour
2.I Can See Four Miles

You can listen to the album and buy it as a digital download at the band's bandcamp page: https://thegathering.bandcamp.com/album/tg25-live-at-doornroosje

The Gathering on the net:
http://thegathering.bandcamp.com/
https://www.webshopgathering.com/

Nine Stones Close Sign to Bad Elephant Music

Bad Elephant Music is proud to announce the latest addition to their lineup: Anglo-Dutch neo-progressive outfit Nine Stones Close.

Conceived in 2008 as a solo project by guitarist Adrian Jones, Nine Stones Close quickly grew into a fully-fledged band with their acclaimed second album Traces, listed among Prog Magazine’s top 20 albums of 2011. Returning with a refreshed lineup after a four-year hiatus following their last album, 2012’s One Eye on the Sunrise, the band’s fourth studio album, Leaves, puts a new twist on an already unique and distinctive sound: rich, elegant soundscapes with a subtle psychedelic edge.

Says Jones himself:

“Nine Stones Close are delighted to be joining such a vibrant and forward thinking label who are passionate about their music, their artists, and working together to deliver great music to as many people as possible. We are really excited about working together with BEM on the release of our forthcoming album!”

David Elliott of BEM adds:

“Nine Stones Close are a band that really do resist pigeonholing. I’ve been following them since the beginning and I’m excited to see this latest development in their musical evolution, and overjoyed to have them joining the Bad Elephant family.”

Leaves is scheduled for release in late spring, 2016. In the meantime a digital single, Complicated is available for purchase via Bandcamp . The single comes with a ‘B side’, an acoustic version of the title track from One Eye on the Sunrise, featuring new vocalist Aio O’Shaughnessy.

Nine Stones Close on the net:
Nine Stones Close website
Bandcamp
Facebook Twitter: @NineStonesClose

Prog Festivals 2016 Update

Finally updated the 2016 Prog Rock Festivals page. Go take a look at what's in store this year in prog here.

And to those of you who are prog festival promoters and want your festival on this list, please send all info at progrockshow(at)hotmail.com.

Beardfish’s Rikard Sjöblom Announces Solo Album

 

Over the past few months, Beardfish's Rikard Sjöblom has been working on a solo album which will be released in February 2016. Titled The Unbendable Sleep, the record brings eight songs which certainly possess quality to appeal to music fans of different genres. Rikard has once again created a diverse album, but in a more intimate format than we are accustomed to.

 

Speaking about his decision to release an album under his name at this point of his career, Rikard says:

“There are a number of reasons why I did this, but the main one is that Gungfly which started out as a solo project later became more of a band with members and all that and it’s a really good band and I love it and all that but I guess to really be solo you almost have to use your birth name?"

 

Thematically, The Unbendable Sleep goes around the usual subjects: love, life, death, and it deals a lot with self-esteem and believing in yourself.

“Sounds cheesy, I know, but it’s pretty important stuff,” Rikard continues. “I found myself singing about mirrors quite a lot and that’s also referring to just that, looking into the mirror and not recognizing the person staring back at you.”

 

The Unbendable Sleep will be available starting February as digital download and CD via Gungfly Productions. The vinyl version of the album will be available from Plane Groovy.

 

The Unbendable Sleep track listing:

 

01. Love and War, Part One: I Am Who You Are
02. Realm of You and Me
03. Rhyme and Reason
04. Will We Cry?
05. Under Northern Skies (Villemo's Song)
06. Building a Tent for Astor
07. Anna-Lee
08. Love and War, Part Two: Lucky Star

 

Rikard Sjöblom on the net:

https://www.facebook.com/rikardsjblom
http://rikardsjoblom.com/

http://www.beardfishband.com/