The Mighty Handful
Ralph Blackbourn – Keyboards, vocals
Tom Halley – Bass, vocals Christopher James Harrison – Lead guitar, vocals Matt Howes – Lead vocals, guitars
Gary Mackenzie – Drums, vocals

Metal underground exclusively steams New York based prog metal band Infinite Spectrum‘s new single “Fear”. and releases details of their new album.

Read and listen here

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Over 5 years in the making, “Hinterland” is the debut album from band, Tilt.

Following on from their acclaimed debut EP “Million Dollar Wound”, “Hinterland” has over 60 minutes of new music.

Tilt members Robin Boult, David Stewart and Steve Vantsis are all probably better known for recording, writing and touring with prog legend Fish over  the years. Steve Vantsis was also responsible for most of the writing of the last two well received Fish albums, ‘13th Star’ and ‘Feast of Consequences’. They are augmented by guitarist Paul Humphreys and singer PJ Dourley.

Tilt are joined on this release by keyboard player John Beck (It Bites) and guitarist John Mitchell (Lonely Robot/Kino/Arena/It Bites) with John Mitchell also responsible for the final mix.

The lead track from the album is “Bloodline” which has already been accepted for rotation at Planet Rock Radio.
The radio edit of “Bloodline” can be bought or streamed at https://tilt.bandcamp.com/track/bloodline-radio-edit

“Hinterland” is exclusively distributed by Burning Shed and is available to pre-order now with an exclusive signed postcard by the band for initial orders at https://www.burningshed.com/store/progressive/product/99/7569/

Digital distribution of ‘HINTERLAND’ will initially be taken care of exclusively by Bandcamp at https://tilt.bandcamp.com/album/hinterland

“Hinterland” is scheduled for release on 30th June.

After more than 25 years, Yes members Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman have announced a re-union tour to play Yes music and more. Means that ARW are currently writing and recording new music.

ARW will tour North America in October/ November and a world tour in 201 is planned.

North American tour dates:

4 – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
6 – Hollywood, FL – Seminole Hard Rock Casino
7 – Clearwater, FL – Ruth Eckerd Hall
9 – Durham, NC – Durham Performing Arts Center
10 – Atlanta, GA – Fox Theatre
15 – Glenside, PA – Keswick Theatre
16 – Glenside, PA – Keswick Theatre
19 – Boston, MA – Wang Theatre
21 – Wallingford, CT – Toyota Oakdale Theatre
22 – Huntington, NY – The Paramount
24 – Montclair, NJ – Wellmont Theater
26 – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Theatre
28 – Atlantic City, NJ – Borgata Event Center
29 – Akron, OH – Goodyear Theater at East End
1 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
2 – Pittsburgh, PA – Heinz Hall
4 – New Buffalo, MI – Four Winds Casino
5 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre
7 – Nashville, TN – Schermerhorn Symphony Center
9 – St Louis, MO – Fox Theatre
11 – New Orleans, LA – Saenger Theatre
12 – San Antonio, TX – Majestic Theatre
14 – Austin, TX – ACL at the Moody Theater
16 – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre
17 – Salt Lake City, UT – Capitol Theater
19 – Las Vegas, NV – The Pearl
20 – Phoenix, AZ – Celebrity Theatre
22 – Los Angeles, CA – Orpheum
25 – San Francisco, CA – Masonic

The Chilean progressive rock outfit SETI is back, six years after their latest studio effort “Discoveries”, a new album has just been announced and is available for preorder. “Bold Travels” will be released in August, and it features notable contributions by Steve Rothery (Marillion), Clive Nolan(Arena/Pendragon) and Damian Wilson (Threshold/Headspace).

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Never released before, the song was written by Dark Avenger’s vocalist, Mario Linhares

“A great discovery of the Brazilian metal”. This phrase was said by experienced and respected singer Mario Linhares, from the band Dark Avenger, about Sao Paulo’s traditional heavy metal act Primator.

Primator is, indeed, a legitimate representative of the new generation of Brazilian metal, although already count on experience and respect earned through its super praised debut album, “Involution”, voted one of the “Best Brazilian Metal Albums from 2015” by the brazilian webzines Heavynroll, Mundo Metal and Roadie Metal.

The friendship between Primator and Mario Linhares became even closer when, in April last year, Dark Avenger and Primator shared the stage in Sao Paulo. The approach also ended up yielding Linhares announcement as producer of next Primator’s studio album.
Mario Linhares also presented the group with a song of his own entitled “To Mars” which ended up turning a music video.

Produced by Daniel de Sá, the shootings for “To Mars” occured at Pedreira do Icatu, in Votorantim/Brazil, same disabled mine that was used in 2012 for a memorable show of Focus, the legendary dutch progressive rock band. All the scenes were filmed at night and shows the band on a literally incendiary performance.

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German prog rock veterans Dice announce the making of their 22nd album, entitled “X Is Double-Two On The DICE-Map”. The Cd will be released on September 12th through the band’s label Scene Records.

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