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 Watch Live in North America

On the heels of their newly released studio album Tracks from the Alps, Italian Genesis-tribute band The Watch will be doing a series of concert in the province of Quebec, in Canada from April 3rd to the 6th. Starting in Quebec City, The Watch will play 3 nights at the La Chapelle theatre, site of the Terra Incognita Festival.

On the first and third night the band will re-create the Seconds Out album and play some of their own compositions near the end.

On the second night, as well as in Montreal on their fourth day in North America, the band will play songs from their own albums.

Upon their return to Europe, they will continue a series of shows called The White Show, where they showcase the whole of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

The Watch mini-tour of Canada:

April 3 - Centre d'art La Chapelle, Quebec City
April 4 - Centre d'art La Chapelle, Quebec City
April 5 - Centre d'art La Chapelle, Quebec City
April 6 - Café Campus, Montreal

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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New Album and Video by Nick Magnus

Composer, keyboard player and producer Nick Magnus (ex-The Enid, ex-Steve Hackett Band) will release his newest CD on April 28th. Titled n'monix is "a collection of songs and music in the finest tradition of his past work." The album also features collaborations with his old band mates Steve Hackett and Pete Hicks, and Andy Neve, Rob Townsend, Tim Bowness (No-Man, Henry Fool, Memories of Machines), Kate Faber, Tony Patterson (ReGenesis) and James Reeves.

Meanwhile, Nick is also is also putting the finishing touches on the Northlands album project by Tony Patterson and Brendan Eyre. Amongst the featured guests are Steve and John Hackett, Doug (ReGenesis) and Carrie Melbourne, Nigel Appleton (ReGenesis), Tim Esau (IQ).

n'monix tracklist:

1. Time
2. Memory
3. Kombat Kid
4. Headcase
5. Eminent Victorians
6. Broken
7. Shadowland
8. Entropy

N'monix is now available for pre-order here.

In the meantime, listen to this excellent track featuring Steve Hackett, Eminent Victorians from Nick's upcoming album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vStLVtXNYxc