by blake | Mar 10, 2017 | Prog Report
It was during the Falling Into Infinity sessions with Dream Theater that Mike Portnoy would create the first side project of his career. The idea for the Liquid Tension Experiment began when Portnoy was approached by then progressive metal label, Magna Carta, a label known for releasing compilations and tribute albums. The first LTE album was release on March 10th, 1998.
Mike Portnoy told The Prog Report, “Well we made the first LTE album, I think in 97 [released in 98], which was the height of my frustration in Dream Theater. We were sitting around waiting to make the Falling into Infinity album and waiting to get the green light from the label. We were being forced to work with Desmond Child and Kevin Shirley and it was just a very creatively frustrating period for me. At that point, Magna Carta came up to me and basically said “hey how’d you like to do a solo album. We’ll get behind anything you want to do, any kind of bands you want to put together.” So I immediately had this idea of doing kind of an instrumental all-star album.”
The success of the album would drive the foursome to return to the studio and record a follow-up. “It did well enough to the label that they were excited to do a follow up. We really enjoyed the chemistry and we wanted to make another one so not even a year later we got together, in 1998, and we did the follow up.”
Miek Portnoy recently performed a few songs from LTE with Tony Levin, Eric Gillette and Diego Tejeida on Cruise to the Edge 2017.
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by blake | Mar 10, 2017 | Prog Report
Thank You Scientist have just announced a series of dates with Bent Knee in April. These dates come right before a series of shows with Devin Townsend. Tickets can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ThankYouScientist/events
w/Bent Knee
April 12th – Amityville, NY @ Amityville Music Hall
April 14th – Jersey City, NJ @ Monty Hall
April 18th – Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
April 19th – Kansing, MI @ Mac’s Bar
April 20th – Milwaukee, WI @ Shank Hall
April 21st – Dekalb, IL @ The House Cafe
April 22nd – Iowa City, IA @ Blue Moose Taphouse
April 23rd – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
w/Devin Townsend Project
April 28th – Pomona, CA @ The Glass House*
April 29th – Flagstaff, AZ @ The Orpheum*
April 30th – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater*
May 2nd – St Louis, MO @ The Ready Room*
May 4th – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues*
May 5th – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr Smalls*
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by blake | Mar 10, 2017 | Prog Report
Genesis guitar legend, Steve Hackett, is set to release his latest album ‘The Night Siren’ on 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.
Today sees the release of a brand new video for the album’s opening track ‘Behind The Smoke’, which you can see now here:
Steve comments: “I’m thrilled with this video for the track ‘Behind the Smoke’ from my new album The Night Siren. Director Ivan and the I-Code team have created an extraordinary film here resembling an epic movie! It perfectly matches the song, which laments the predicament of refugees throughout the ages. More compassion is needed in this world for those escaping persecution and death.”
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by blake | Mar 9, 2017 | Prog Report
After a longer break from any live performances due to the tragic passing of founding member and guitarist Piotr Grudzinski on February 21st, 2016, Progressive Rock masters RIVERSIDE have just successfully completed their return to stages with two very special sold-out tribute shows in their hometown of Warsaw, Poland in front of more than 4,000 people.
The band has checked in with the following comment:
“Two amazing, cathartic, unforgettable, one-of-a-kind evenings with a one-of-a-kind audience.
Now we know. We are definitely moving on.
And our tour in April and May will also be cathartic and unforgettable – The opening of the new chapter.”
Next month RIVERSIDE will embark on a European tour dubbed “Towards The Blue Horizon”, consisting of the following dates:
RIVERSIDE – “Towards The Blue Horizon” Tour 2017:
20.04. Olsztyn (Poland) – Nowy Andegrant
21.04. Gdansk (Poland) – Stary Manez
22.04. Poznan (Poland) – B17
23.04. Wroclaw (Poland) – A2
26.04. Walbrzych (Poland) – Stara Kopalnia
27.04. Katowice (Poland) – Mega Club
28.04. Bielsko Biala (Poland) – Rude Boy
29.04. Bydgoszcz (Poland) – MCK
05.05. Berlin (Germany) – Columbia Theater
06.05. Worpswede (Germany) – Music Hall
07.05. Hamburg (Germany) – Markthalle
09.05. Aschaffenburg (Germany) – Colos-Saal
10.05. Pratteln (Switzerland) – Z7
12.05. Lyon (France) – MJC Ô Totem
13.05. Barcelona (Spain) – Salamandra 1
14.05. Madrid (Spain) – Teatro Barcelo
16.05. Bordeaux (France) – Krakatoa
17.05. Paris (France) – Divan du Monde
19.05. Edinburgh (UK) – Liquid Room
20.05. Bristol (UK) – Marble Factory
21.05. Leamington Spa (UK) – Assembly
22.05. London (UK) – Islington Assembly Hall
24.05. Maastricht, (The Netherlands) – Muziekgieterij
25.05. Zoetermeer (The Netherlands) – De Boerderij
26.05. Zwolle (The Netherlands) – Hedon
27.05. Uden (The Netherlands) – De Pul
28.05. Cologne (Germany) – Die Kantine
30.05. Kraków (Poland) – Laznia
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by blake | Mar 9, 2017 | Prog Report
Between the Buried and Me are set to release a live set capturing the band live on their Coma Ecliptic tour. The Coma Ecliptic Live Blu-ray/DVD/CD comes out April 28th, 2017. The film contains the full album performance of the recent album.
“The genesis of the ‘Coma Ecliptic’ filming was based around capturing the look and feel of the show our lighting director Chris Hill produced for the full album set. It’s such an important record for us and our progression as a band and the visual representation captures the moods of our tragic tale so well. It’s the perfect way to wrap up the last two years we’ve been living with this album day in and day out!” – Dan
Watch the video trailer here:
Available at http://www.metalblade.com/btbam on these formats:
CD/DVD/Blu-ray
180g black 2LP
golden yellow marble 2LP (limited to 300 copies – EU exclusive)
ultra violet marble 2LP (limited to 200 copies – EU exclusive)
purple/black marble 2LP (limited to 300 copies – USA exclusive)
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by blake | Mar 9, 2017 | Prog Report
Instrumental Prog group Scale the Summit are back with a new album entitled ‘In a World of Fear’. The new album features mastermind Chris Letchford teaming up with drummer Charlie Engen and bassist Kilian Duarte for a collection of more powerful and inventive instrumental prog.
Available now for pre-order at https://scalethesummit.bandcamp.com/, the new album is due out on May 19th.
It can also be previewed by this new video trailer the band just released.
Check it out here:
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