The Fierce And The Dead to Release Magnet

Cult North London instrumentalists The Fierce And The Dead release their first new material in two years this August via Bad Elephant Music. The critically acclaimed band’s new EP, titled Magnet features 6 songs including 3 new tracks, a re-recording of the song Flint from the band’s first album and 2 songs recorded live in rehearsal (one of these is a bonus on the CD). The EP is released on the 14th of August, the week before TFATD play the Arctangent festival alongside acts including Dillinger Escape Plan, 65daysofstatic and Deerhoof.

The band are currently in the process of recording their third studio album for release next year and are playing a few select live dates and festivals. Drummer Stuart Marshall describes the new material as "f*****g terrifying”.

You can listen to the first song, Magnet In Your Face, from the EP and pre-order it from our Bandcamp site.

Tracklist:
1. Magnet in Your Face
2. Palm Trees
3. Flint
4. Part 6 (The Eighth Circuit)
5. Let's Start a Cult (Rehearsal Recording)

The Gift Announce the Release of Their Sophomore Effort

Symphonic Prog band The Gift is proud to announce that Land of Shadows, their much-anticipated sophomore release, will be released on 5th May 2014.

Mike Morton, principal songwriter and vocalist with The Gift, said:

"We are genuinely thrilled about Land of Shadows. The Gift don’t do things quickly, but even by our standards this one was a long time coming. Part of the reason was our determination not just to remake Awake and Dreaming, which we could so easily have done. The new album is still very much us. We’re still telling tall tales and mixing up vintage with modern sounds, but this time around things are more imminent; more live. We’ve stripped back the layers and focused more on the song. But as card carrying proggers we still couldn’t resist throwing in a 20 minute beast about a near death experience...For those who like their music emotional, complex and occasionally grandiose, it’ll be right up your street."

 The album is to be release on the Bad Elephant label, the same label that brought us Shineback in 2013 and the latest The Fierce and the Dead.

Pre-orders will open on 31st March - more details will follow soon.

Tracklist:

1. The Willows (12:10)
2. Walk Into the Water (6:04)
3. St Vitus Dance (3:17)
4. Too Many Hands (4:35)
5. You Are the Song (4:02)
6. Windscreen (7:08)
7. The Comforting Cold (19:53)
8. I Sing of Change (2:12)

To hear The Willows, to be released as a digital single through the BEM website on 10th March, visit our Soundcloud site at https://soundcloud.com/badelephant/the-willows
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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

Matt Stevens Signs Deal with Esoteric Antenna

London-based prog guitarist Matt Stevens has signed a solo deal the Esoteric Antenna label.

The news comes swift on the back of Stevens’ other band, The Fierce And The Dead signing to the Bad Elephant label (also home to Simon Godfrey’s Shineback project) and the London-based multi instrumentalist will release Lucid, his fourth album, in February next year.

Stevens has often been compared to the likes of Radiohead and Robert Fripp. He has played live with Jon Gomm, Mike Keneally, Colin Edwin, Barclay James Harvest, Fish, Touchstone and The Reasoning and will appear with label-mates Tin Spirits and Sanguine Hum at London’s Borderline on Friday 7 June and Manchester’s Band On The Wall on Friday 21 June.

Stevens’ 2010 album Ghost, his second release, was described in Prog as ‘ a phenomenal piece of work that has already garnered countless frothing plaudits within the online prog and post-rock firmament. Wholly instrumental and insanely inventive…an internet phenomena in the making’.