CD/DVD Releases: News Bits: Votum, Sunburst, Power Prog
So... here we are once more... playing catchup...again... (with some items there were stuck in a queue).
In release news, aside from those we've featured in their own right, there a few that we were "tipped" to by Laser's Edge's newsletter from February ({sigh}, yes Feburary) posting about what's new in their store, which includes these releases):
The prog band Votum just released the music video for "Satellite" the opening track from their upcoming album :KTONIK: . The video was directed by Pascal Pawliszewski. :KTONIK: was released this past Friday, February 26, through Inner Wound Recordings.
Votum toured Europe with Kingcrow in March. More dates will be announced soon.
:KTONIK: can be ordered here: Votum: votum.bigcartel.com Inner Wound: innerwound.bigcartel.com
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The progressive metal band Sunburst just released a music video for the track "Out Of The World" online. Their highly anticipated debut album Fragments Of Creation was released on February 26th in Europe and North America through Inner Wound Recordings.
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Also from Inner Wound Recordings: Inner Wound Recordings are proud to announce the signing of the progressive metal band Universal Mind Project to the label. Their highly anticipated debut album The Jaguar Priest will be released on April 29th in Europe and North America.
Universal Mind Project is:
Elina Laivera - Vocals
Henrik Bath [Darkwater] - Vocals
Michael Alexander - Guitars, Growls
Alex Landenburg [Luca Turilli's Rhapsody] - Drums
In a mix of perfectly executed modern progressive/power metal combined with the unique diversity of male and female vocals that stylistically spread from lyrical and fragile to soothing and powerful, as well as the use of growl vocals at parts of the record, the debut album The Jaguar Priest encloses a most impressive league of artistic creation.
Apart from Elina Laivera and Henrik Bath, the album also includes vocal performances by Nils K Rue [Pagan's Mind], Mark Jansen [Epica, Mayan], Charlie Dominici [ex. Dream Theater] and Diego Valdez [Helker] -forming an incredibly powerful team of vocalists, each of whom add their own distinctive style to the songs.
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New releases in the last couple of months or upcoming this March from the Power Prog label are: Overwind - Level Complete (December 11, 2015) -- a Russian modern progressive/power metal group releasing their second album since their formation in 2013 (their debut, Illustrator, was released in mid-2014); Triddana - The Power & The Will (December 11, 2015) -- a South American folk/power metal band hailing from Argentina releasing their second album since their formation in 2011 (Ripe For Rebellion, their debut, came out in 2013); The Chronicles Project - When Darkness Falls (December 11, 2015) -- a collaborative effort concept album first conceived by Malte Rathke (keyboards, J.R. Blackmore) in 2011, coming to fruition in 2015, and featuring Andi Kravljaca (Nergard, Thaurorod, Aeon Zen, etc.), Dave Esser (Schattenspieler, solo), Rob Lundgren (Powerdrive, Scientic), Vaslis Georgiou (Black Fate, SunBurst, Innosense), and Patricia Romera Holgado, all on vocals, as well as Ivan Ravaioli (lead and rhythm guitars), Martino Garattoni (bass) and Sam Tickner (drums); Darusso - Medicine For The Soul - a hard rock/pop rock release from the vocalist of metal band Wings Of Destiny that PowerProg reissued this past December in a Deluxe Edition edition, featuring 4 extra tracks; Endless - The Truth, The Chaos, The Insanity (March 25, 2016) -- a Brazilian melodic progressive/power metal band releasing their fourth album after almost a decade since their previous release, 2007's Shambala (pre-order here), Arctic Void - Entangled (March 25, 2016) -- modern melodic Swedish metal, Entangled is their debut (pre-order here); and lastly in this PowerProg recap, Eternity's End - The Fire Within (March 25, 2016) -- their debut (and thus, I guess, Eternity's End's beginning?) of the neoclassical power metal style with a progressive twist (so the bio says) (pre-order here).
[Source: Power Prog]
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And here the round up ends.... for today.