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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by blake | Mar 22, 2017 | Prog Report
A new festival, Progstock, was recently announced in the Northeast state of NJ and is set to take place from Oct 13-15, 2017. The lineup is a great one, especially for a brand new event and will include The Tangent, Karmakanic, Glass Hammer, Echolyn, Aisles, Randy McStine and many more over the course of the 3-day festival.
For more information visit: http://www.progstock.com/2017/
The complete lineup is:
Friday 10/13/2017
5:30pm-7:30pm – Rachel Flowers / Peter Jones / Francis Dunnery
7:30pm-9:00pm – break and meet & greet with Rachel, Peter, Francis
9:00pm-11:00pm – Glass Hammer 25th Anniversary Show
11:00pm – meet & greet with Glass Hammer
12mid – ProgStock Late Night (at the Festival Hotel) featuring EchoTest
Saturday 10/14/2017
11:00am-12:00pm – The Tea Club
12:00pm-1:00pm – break and meet & greet with Tea Club
1:00pm-2:15pm – Resistor
2:15pm-3:30pm – break and meet & greet with Resistor
3:30pm-4:45pm – Circuline
4:45pm-6:00pm – break and meet & greet with Circuline
6:00pm-7:30pm – Aisles
7:30pm-9:00pm – break and meet & greet with Aisles
9:00pm-11:00pm – Echolyn
11:00pm – meet & greet with Echolyn
12mid – ProgStock Late Night (at the Festival Hotel) featuring House of Prog’s Progressive Coffeehouse (with Jason Rubenstein, Rani Chatoorgoon, and Simon Godfrey)
Sunday 10/15/2017
11:00am-12:00pm – Cell15
12:00pm-1:00pm – break and meet & greet with Cell15
1:00pm-2:15pm – 3RDegree
2:15pm-3:30pm – break and meet & greet with 3RDegree
3:30pm-5:00pm – Randy McStine Presents a Kevin Gilbert Retrospective featuring Nick D’Virgilio, Don Carr and Lloyd Landesman
5:00pm-6:30pm – break and meet & greet with KG Retrospective artists
6:30pm-8:00pm – Karmakanic
8:00pm-8:30pm – brief break for equipment changeover
8:30pm-10:00pm – The Tangent
10:00pm – meet & greet with Karmakanic / The Tangent
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by blake | Mar 17, 2017 | Prog Report
Legendary progressive metal act Fates Warning celebrated the 30th anniversary of their third album, Awaken the Guardian, in 2016. To celebrate this milestone, Jim Matheos (guitar) reassembled the Awaken the Guardian-era lineup for two special festival appearances last year: Keep it True XIX and Prog Power USA XVII. Fortunately for fans that were not able to attend, each show was filmed and recorded in its entirety for the upcoming DVD/Blu-ray out April 28th via Metal Blade Records, Awaken the Guardian Live!
Directed and edited by Oliver “Bomber” Barth, the Keep It True XIX footage was recorded on April 30th, 2016 in Lauda-Konigshofen, Germany; the Prog Power USA footage was recorded on September 9th, 2016 in Atlanta, GA with sound recording and video editing by Kent Smith, plus audio and video recording services provided by Lucid Lounge Studios – Atlanta. Mixed and mastered by Bill Metoyer at SkullSeven Studio in North Hollywood, CA, Awaken the Guardian Live also features art direction, design, and artwork by Ioannis (dangerousage.com), making this a must-have piece for any fan’s collection. Awaken the Guardian vocalist John Arch comments about the experience: “It was truly a surreal experience being able to share the spirit of ‘Awaken The Guardian’ at these shows. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the fans that have given back so much over the 30 year span since the album’s release. To all our family and friends, much gratitude.”
For more info visit: metalblade.com/fateswarning – where Awaken the Guardian Live can also be pre-ordered in the following formats:
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