Our Kingdom is the 9th track from the new album Elements by German Prog metal band Thoughts Factory
The song revolves around a man who finds that his girl saved him from a terrible fate. She gave him the power to solve his problems, he never thought he could solve at all. After the obstacles have been removed from his path he will be able to build a common future, it will take time and be a lot of hard work, but in the end, the outcome will be good.
Quiet steps slowly approaching Warm hands reaching out for me To take me for a walk through the ruins of my life I leave it all behind, fetters to unbind I brought the spark and you brought the flame I showed you my sins and you made me change Words that I said and the things you received Expose who I am and who I’ll become after you’re gone You’re the scorching fire in my heart That makes me burning through the dark You’re the sparkling water on my skin That clears my mind and keeps me sane Will I see you stay, forever and a day Stone by stone and heartbeat by heartbeat We build this kingdom of our own The draft is in our hands, no foes left to defeat Stone by stone and heartbeat by heartbeat We build this kingdom of our own Hand in hand, together we’ll ascend the throne I brought the spark and you brought the flame I showed you my sins and you made me change Words that I said and the things you received Expose who I am and who I’ll become after you’re gone You’re the scorching fire in my heart That makes me burning through the dark You’re the sparkling water on my skin That clears my mind and keeps me sane Will I see you stay, forever and a day Cause I’ll walk by your side, forever and a night credits from Elements, released January 24, 2020 Music: Schornstein, Wurth Lyrics: Wurth, Schornstein
Video Production by Ute Haas & Perrin Gilles
Taken from the album ELEMENTS, Released January 2020
Album (Elements) Produced and mixed at Kohlekeller Studio and Secret Soul Studio
Thoughts Factory is:
Sven Schornstein – Keyboards
Bernd Schönegge – Bass
Chris Maldener – Drums
Markus Wittmann – Guitars
Cornelius Wurth – Vocals & Guitars
Recorded across the band’s mammoth 53 show 2019 European tour, to mark the 25th anniversary of the collective’s formation in Croydon in 1994,
the ‘25 Live’ tour started in Paris with a sold-out show at the 5,000 capacity La Seine Musicale venue in May, continuing at the historic Acropolis Amphitheatre in Athens and winding-up, 16 countries later, in Barcelona mid-December.
The Paris show in May also marked the release of Archive’s career-spanning box set retrospective collection ‘25’.
Talking about the tour and the ‘25 Live’album, Archive co-founder Darius Keeler said:
“The tour was, without doubt, the most ambitious live outing Archive has ever undertaken, playing great shows to sell-out crowds, in some incredible venues, it felt like a celebration every single night! We wanted to make this free live album available, not just to all the people who saw us on the tour, but to everyone who’s supported Archive throughout our career and made the last 25 years possible.”
Watch the Full Concert Here
The band documented the 25 Live tour on film, directed by Archive vocalist Dave Pen:
“I’ve always been into experimenting with film, I’ve made videos for other projects but I really wanted to document such an important tour for Archive. It was very much a point and shoot film, I was aiming to give fans an honest insight into life on the road with the band, and I think the resulting film does that.”
Watch the resulting documentary on Archive’s YouTube channel!
Video by NLIGHT PRODUCTIONS Produced by Enzo Mazzeo Script & Directed by Èric Boadella Cinematography: Lawrence Le Steadicam Operator: Patrick Ortman 1st AC: Jose Mendoza Make Up & Hair: Judith Koppelmann Still Photography: Federico Janni Production Assistant: Pau Palanco Production Assistant: Emily Aspland Production Assistant: Marco Siguenza Editors: Èric Boadella & Nora Hadad Color & VSFX: Èric Boadella
Black Swan: Robin McAuley – Lead Vocals & Background Vocals Reb Beach – Guitars and Background Vocals Jeff Pilson – Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Keys & Background Vocals Matt Starr – Drums and Percussion
The genesis of Black Swan was sparked by a conversation between Jeff Pilson and Frontiers’ President & Head of A&R, Serafino Perugino, who wanted a project that would not only showcase McAuley’s vocal prowess, but have a mighty musical backbone to stand skyscraper tall behind him. Thus, the initial seeds were planted and Pilson ran with it from there. “Shake The World” was tracked at Pilson’s home studio in Los Angeles, “Shake The World” is a showcase of both the musical talents of the instrumental players in the band as well as McAuley’s powerful voice. The four members got Black Swan off the ground by exchanging ideas back and forth and then bringing all the songs together. The final result is something fresh, very heavy, but still intensely melodic and it’s certainly not Dokken, nor Winger, nor MSG, or some combination thereof, but it’s own unique animal. As an example, one of the songs was written by Jeff Pilson right after seeing the Queen movie ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. “I came home and I sat down at the grand piano and pretty much wrote exactly the chorus that we have, just coming straight [from] the movie. It is a bit Queen-like.” Continues Pilson, “It’s amazing, incredible music. Wait until you hear everybody’s playing and singing. It’s beyond — way beyond.”
Adds Robin McAuley, “This is really exciting for me to read: Black Swan announces the release of “Shake the World,” the first offering from the band on the Frontiers’ label.” I’ve known Jeff for some thirty years and we have a history of performing together on MSG Unplugged, in addition to being great friends, musically and socially. When he asked me to do this and collaborate with Reb, I didn’t have to think too long with my response. Initially he wasn’t going to play bass on this, but Reb and myself soon changed his mind, lol!!! Bringing Matt into the mix was a great decision. His powerful energy and style is unmistakable on this album. Overall, it is a very powerful blend of styles and writing. Reb is truly an amazing guitarist and songwriter. Jeff captured my vocals the way I like to sound. Probably the best vocal sound I’ve had… ever!!!! Such a great and creative studio experience for me. This is kick ass, powerful music on an album full of great songs. If you love strong melodies and BIG choruses, BLACK SWAN won’t disappoint!! It’s time…”SHAKE THE WORLD!!!”
Guitarist Reb Beach says, “When Jeff approached me to do this, I was so excited because I loved writing “Erase the Slate” with him for Dokken. I also played in the band with Jeff for four years, and we worked so well together, writing and live too. He is as good as it gets when it comes to a rock musician, a great songwriter and an absolute joy to work with. I came in with riffs, Jeff arranged them into a song by adding his own parts, and then Robin wrote the lyrics, and knocked it out of the park with the vocals. I am pretty particular about singers, and Robin’s voice is so slammin’ that I wouldn’t want anyone else. Matt came in with his huge drum sound, and we had a great sounding band. Very exciting stuff!!”
“Shooting the video was a blast,” says drummer Matt Starr. “Shot in Los Angeles over the course of two days, it was similar to recording the record, everything was very organic and comfortable. That’s the advantage of working with guys who have so much experience. There’s not too much discussion going on. Everybody knows what to do, we just get to work and do it. That leaves more time for hanging out, chatting and smoking cigars!”
The album is a killer slice of melodic hard rock & heavy metal from seasoned players who have gelled musically. Whether you are a fan from “back in the day” or brand new to the scene and just diving in, the album is essential listening!
Mastered by Maor Appelbaum at Maor Appelbaum Mastering, USA
English Dark Progressive Rock band BIRDEATSBABY releases its third single “Box Of Razorblades” taken from the album “The World Conspires”.
Vocalist Mishkin Fitzgerald experiences in the song an all too familiar emotional world of depression, self-harm, alcoholism and bipolar disorder. “Box Of Razorblades” is an ode to hopelessness to which director Scott Chalmers (Devin Townsend, Fear Factory, 69 Eyes) together with award-winning visual effects artist Oliver Hollingdale (Avengers, Insurgent, Fast And The Furious 7) has produced a furious music video with impressive camera flights, grotesque landscapes as well as dramatic acting sequences including a voodoo ritual. Produced by legendary John Fryer (Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, HIM) in Los Angeles and mastered by Bob Macchiochi (Shades, Baby Grande, Space Jesus), the masterpiece “The World Conspires” is available through Dr. Music Records.
BIRDEATSBABY coquet with bittersweet romance and mysticism in “The World Conspires”
Great feelings, energy, melancholic soft melodies. BIRDEATSBABY, from Brighton, are a special ensemble that has been delivering the great inner cinema since 2009. The name of the Dark Progressive Rock band was literally dreamt up while sleeping, bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Mishkin Fitzgerald and her fellow bandmates walk on paths far away from the uniform mainstream. “The World Conspires” is the fifth album and at the same time the beginning of a new phase in the musical development of BIRDEATSBABY, touching the spheres of modern Prog Metal for the first time. Reaching into these new avenues of creative inspiration, the English band fuses its genre of Dark Cabaret with harder progressive sounds without neglecting its roots. Open-minded music fans with a predilection for bands and artists such as Anathema, Tool, Nick Cave or Muse should note the 18th of October 2019, when the new masterpiece, produced by the legendary John Fryer (Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, HIM) and mastered by Bob Macchiochi (Shades, Baby Grande, Space Jesus) in the Black Needle Noise Emporium Studio in Los Angeles, will be released via Dr. Music Records.
When they met during their studies at Brighton University, BIRDEATSBABY’s flame-haired vocalist Mishkin Fitzgerald and guitarist Garry Mitchell formed a thriving musical partnership with a mutual love of dark and progressive music. After a few line-up changes the band has been completed with Anna Mylee on drums and Hana Maria on violin, cello and harp. Starting out in the Punk Cabaret scene, the sound progressed into an atmospheric, melancholic Prog Rock with Steampunk fragments, which excites with classical orchestral layers, bold guitars and intricate arrangements. The band has amassed a cult-like following across the world, aptly called ‘The Flock’, and has been able to successfully crowd-fund each of their releases. Additionally, they landed support slots with The Courtesans, the German Gothic icons ASP and played hundreds of shows in the UK, Europe, the United States and also Mexico. With their new studio album “The World Conspires” BIRDEATSBABY have now returned with a soundtrack for the soulful, haunting, riotous celebration of life in all its facets. The album leads the listener on a roller coaster ride of drama and conflicting emotions. From the rich, orchestral and fragile album opener “Hold Your Breath”, a mantra for anyone who has gone through trauma, it continues with the mystical “Painkiller”, as well as the title song and its overwhelming ode to love, on to “Lady Grey”, which elegiacally and captivatingly walks through the shadows, before the musicians slow down with “How Do I” and let Mishkin’s sensitive voice float over soft piano sounds, accompanied by strings. The tragic “Box Of Razorblades” continues atmospherically until the last act is introduced with the extraordinary “Dido’s Lament” along with brilliant guest vocals by Feline Lang (Feline & Strange). In “Kill No One” the punk attitude of earlier days flashes up again before the last curtain falls with the spherical “Look Away”.
The BIRDEATSBABY album “The World Conspires”, whose artistic cover was created by illustrator Jack Flamel, will once again tempt new disciples into the spell of their fan cult because friends of sophisticated Progressive Rock music, with a tendency towards melancholy and bittersweet romance, definitely cannot resist this musical highlight.
Tracklist “Finally Free”:
Hold Your Breath
Painkiller
ZeroFortyThree
The World Conspires
Lady Grey
How Do I
Box Of Razorblades
Esmerelda
Hurricane
Whisper
Ropes
Dido‘s Lament
Kill No On
Bad Blood
Look Away
Line-Up: Mishkin Fitzgerald: Vocals, Piano, Accordion, Synthesizer Hana Maria: Violin, Cello, Vocals, Harp, Barrel Organ Garry Mitchell: Bass, Guitar, Vocals, Double Bass, Rhodes Organ Anna Mylee: Drums, Percussion
Produced by legendary John Fryer (Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, HIM) in the Black Needle Noise Emporium Studio in Los Angeles and mastered by Bob Macchiochi (Shades, Baby Grande, Space Jesus), the new masterpiece “The World Conspires”, which has been released on October 18th, 2019, through Dr. Music Records, is the beginning of a new phase in the musical development of BIRDEATSBABY, touching the spheres of modern Prog Metal for the first time. The English band is reaching into these new avenues of creative inspiration. During their studies, the flame-haired BIRDEATSBABY vocalist Mishkin Fitzgerald and guitarist Garry Mitchell met and decided to start a thriving musical partnership with a mutual love of dark and progressive music. After a few line-up changes the band has now been completed with Anna Mylee on drums and Hana Maria on violin, cello and harp. Starting out in the Punk Cabaret scene, the sound progressed into an atmospheric, melancholic Prog Rock with Steampunk fragments, which excites with classical orchestral layers, bold guitars and intricate arrangements. The four musicians can always rely on the support of their cult-like worldwide fan community, aptly called ‘The Flock’. With their new studio album “The World Conspires”, BIRDEATSBABY have now returned with a soundtrack for the soulful, haunting, riotous celebration of life in all its facets and once again tempt new disciples into the spell of their fan cult.
Discography: 2019 The World Conspires | Dr. Music Records 2018 Better Man (EP) | Dr. Music Records 2016 Tanta Furia (Album) | State51 Conspiracy 2014 The Bullet Within (Album) | State51 Conspiracy 2012 Feast Of Hammers (Album) | State51 Conspiracy 2010 Bigger Teeth (EP) | State51 Conspiracy 2009 Here She Comes A Tumblin’ | State51 Conspiracy
BIRDEATSBABY’s breathtaking balancing act between Dark Cabaret and Dark Progressive Metal can be admired live at the following tour dates: 11.04.2020 GB-London, Unicorn 29.05.2020 DE-Karlsruhe, Kellerhalle 31.05.2020 DE-Leipzig, Sixtina 01.06.2020 DE-München, Glockenbachwerkstatt 05.06.2020 DE-Berlin, Supamolly 08.06.2020 DE-Freiburg, Slowclub 11.06.2020 DE-Bochum, Bastion 12.06.2020 DE-Celle, Ms Loretta 13.06.2020 DE-Bielefeld, Extra Blues-Bar 14.06.2020 DE-Schwalbach, Cowhide
US Progressive Metal pioneers and innovators PSYCHOTIC WALTZ will soon release their 5th studio album, “The God-Shaped Void”, worldwide on February 14th, 2020. Written and recorded with their full original line-up, “The God-Shaped Void”, showcases the first new PSYCHOTIC WALTZ music in 23 years and will be the band’s debut release for InsideOutMusic.
In anticipation of the release, PSYCHOTIC WALTZ are presenting a second single off the album today. Check out the song “All The Bad Men” via a video-clip created by Costin Chioreanu / Twight13Media (Leprous, At The Gates, Borknagar, etc.) here:
PSYCHOTIC WALTZ guitarist Dan Rock says of the song: “This started out from an old acoustic guitar riff I had back in the ‘90s before we broke up. Oddly, there is no acoustic guitar in it at all! It became the heavy verse riff. This song took a while to find the right notes for the lead and the proper groove for the drums. Early versions of this song make us cringe, so persistence obviously pays off, as it is one of our favorites from the album now.”
And PSYCHOTIC WALTZ say of the video: “For the first video we trusted visual artist Costin Chioreanu to come up with something fittingly dark, dystopian, abstract and trippy. And he really outdid himself! Besides, an animated video is a lot better than looking at a bunch of middle-aged guys rocking out in an empty warehouse.”
Previously, a first track off “The God-Shaped Void” entitled “Devils And Angels” was debuted in a lyric video by Cloud Music Typography here: https://youtu.be/2u1V8G43ytE
The basic tracks for “The God-Shaped Void” were recorded with engineer Ulrich Wild in the band’s hometown of San Diego, then the rest of the recordings at Studio D in Austria and finally the material was mixed/mastered by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Devin Townsend, Fates Warning) at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden. Artwork, as to be seen above, was created by longtime visual partner Travis Smith (Katatonia, Riverside, Nevermore).
Here is the tracklisting for “The God-Shaped Void”:
1. Devils And Angels (06:29) 2. Stranded (04:49) 3. Back To Black (03:52) 4. All The Bad Men (03:59) 5. The Fallen (05:49) 6. While The Spiders Spin (05:49) 7. Pull The String (04:54) 8. Demystified (05:12) 9. Season Of The Swarm (05:57) *** Bonus Track 10. Sisters Of The Dawn (06:41) 11. In The Silence (05:16)
The album’s bonus-track “Season Of The Swarm” will be available on the limited Mediabook CD (which comes with expanded booklet and an exclusive logo patch), on the vinyl edition as well as on the Digital versions. A standard Jewelcase CD edition is available as well.
The vinyl edition of “The God-Shaped Void” comes as 2LP on 180gr. vinyl with gatefold packaging and with the entire album on CD as bonus in the following versions: – Black 2LP + CD: Unlimited – Lilac 2LP + CD: 200x copies from IOM Webshop – Sold Out! – Transparent Blue 2LP + CD: 200x copies from Nuclear Blast – Dark Green 2LP + CD: 300x copies from CM Distro
(Left to right on photo by Axel Jusseit) Norman Leggio – drums Ward Evans – bass Devon Graves – vocals Brian McAlpin – guitars Dan Rock – guitars & keys
PSYCHOTIC WALTZ– Studio album discography:
A Social Grace (1990) Into The Everflow (1992) Mosquito (1994) Bleeding (1996) The God-Shaped Void (2020)
Transport Aerian is a Belgian progressive rock project that has been pushing the envelope for the last decade led by multi-instrumentalist and mastermind Hamlet. Transport Aerian latest video is from his upcoming single Big Heart, featuring some very impressive names like Chris Allan (Session Musician and Malefice) Drummer, Peter Matuchniak (Bomber Goggles, Kinetic Element) Guitarist and Marco Ragni (Solo Artist) Multi-instrumentalists.
Big Heart explores the poetic reflection on concluded decade, love, progress, and simply the price of staying human. According to Hamlet, projects main composer and songwriter, such themes should not be exploited commercially, therefore, the song will be released as a charity effort and profits donated to Direct Relief.
Direct Relief is a humanitarian aid organization, active in all 50 states and more than 80 countries, with a mission to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies – without regard to politics, religion, or ability to pay. Learn More
The single will be released soon via all digital outlets.
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