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Points: 1361 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2009 at 13:46
Is this common knowledge?  Just saw on another site.  I guess I knew they were working on an album but the early summer date may not have been known.

"Prog Metal veterans Dream Theater are currently wrapping up work on their tenth studio album. The band commenced work on the as-yet untitled album - their second for Roadrunner Records, following up 2007's Systematic Chaos - in October of last year.

Drummer Mike Portnoy and guitarist John Petrucci are once again producing the CD, while engineer Paul Northfield will mix the record. Roadrunner plans to release the album in early summer upon which the band will immediately embark on a world tour to support it."

SOURCE: Dream Theater Newsletter
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john, thanks for the heads up about the dream theater. looking forward to that.
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Originally posted by johnobvious johnobvious wrote:

Is this common knowledge?  Just saw on another site.  I guess I knew they were working on an album but the early summer date may not have been known.

"Prog Metal veterans Dream Theater are currently wrapping up work on their tenth studio album. The band commenced work on the as-yet untitled album - their second for Roadrunner Records, following up 2007's Systematic Chaos - in October of last year.

Drummer Mike Portnoy and guitarist John Petrucci are once again producing the CD, while engineer Paul Northfield will mix the record. Roadrunner plans to release the album in early summer upon which the band will immediately embark on a world tour to support it."

SOURCE: Dream Theater Newsletter
 
Thanks John for popping by and for the information.
 
It may be worth reading some of the previous posts first though Wink
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have announced that the release date for "The Detached" has been put back until 3rd March.
 
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Band Focus
 
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See MS for audio samples (keep on eye on these guys in the future Wink)
 
 
Introducing HAKEN, one of the most exciting sounds to emerge from the modern progressive movement. Formed in 2007, HAKEN is a virtuoso and eclectic progressive rock/metal band from London, England, comprising some of the country's finest young musicians.

Within months of their first show in July 2007, they were billed in support of Riverside (Inside Out) at Camden’s prestigious Underworld. Since then they have performed headlining sets to packed houses around London, including several sold-out shows at "the best live music venue in south-west London", The Peel in Kingston, and on the strength of these performances HAKEN were recently selected to open for King’s X (Inside Out) at Camden’s impressive Electric Ballroom in January 2009. In its brief existence, HAKEN has become respected within the British metal community, and its unique and imaginative genre-bending approach has earned praise from all corners of the globe.

The members of HAKEN are established in their respective fields. Richard Henshall (guitars/keyboards) - aka Hen’s fret-board mastery is admired and respected amongst London's guitar-elite. Hen’s keyboard skills were recently employed by fellow prog-metal band To-Mera in support of Pain of Salvation. Hen has been a full time member of To-Mera since November 2007. Tom MacLean (bass guitar) studied jazz guitar at Trinity College of Music and is the guitarist in To-Mera, with the additional experience of supporting Dream Theater. Charlie Griffiths’ (guitar), projects (past and present) include Linear Sphere, in support of Dream Theater and runners-up in the 2002 Dream Theater song-writing competition, and Anchorhead, personally acclaimed by Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy. Charlie teaches at London's Guitar Institute and writes for globally published Guitar Technique and Total Guitar magazines. Ray Hearne (drums) studies at the Guildhall School of Music. Ray won the 2008 'Origin8' national composition competition and consequently worked alongside producers associated with Kano, U.N.K.L.E. and Queens of the Stone Age. In his former band, Ray supported Enter Shikari. Ross Jennings (vocals) has served many unsigned UK bands. Ross is respected for his charismatic stage presence and diverse range of vocal styles which he uses to execute his words with clarity and passion.

Gig on March 5th
 
 
 
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Time flies and there are numerous things to attend to in life: full time jobs and full time education; family life as well as social life in general—you all know how the story goes, right? As you might know we have not been very productive the past few years, and after the summer of 2008 we pretty much decided to part ways and discontinue further activities in the name of Wolverine. The band was no longer to be. Even though we had already begun to work with new material for a future album release, we felt that it was a pointless struggle to continue. There was simply too much conflict and too little dedication regarding Wolverine. And considering the positive reception Still had earned in several reviews and from our dedicated fans all over the world, we felt that at least we could put an end to the band’s misery and still (!) be satisfied with what we had accomplished.

However, we decided upon a change of direction. During the rehearsals for the upcoming gigs at ProgPower Europe 2008, we had such a good time! It was such a blast to just play together, and it felt like such a waste just to throw everything away and terminate the band. As it turns out we agreed upon trying to make things work and make an effort to put more energy into working with Wolverine. Being on stage during the ProgPower festival also served as great motivation to us—playing in Baarlo, once again, was a fantastic experience! For those of you who came to the show to see us perform: thank you for being there!

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We’re extremely proud to announce that “Spectastral Records USA” has signed PANTOMMIND to a worldwide deal. The band’s new album is scheduled for a March ‘09 release.After a silence of 4 years since our debut album "Shade Of Fate" the band is now ready to present a true masterpiece of pure progressive metal in very high range, all composed with class and originality. Finally, after a very long delay, we have a release date for “Lunasense”. The album will be out in the US stores on the 23 of March. European release date will follow.
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That's right, it's finally available for online purchase...the new Cloakwheel album "This Crooked Path You've Drawn" is now available for purchase online at this address:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/cloakwheel
It is only $9.99 and we have set up a discount of 10% if you buy more than one copy.
We are negotiating terms with several other online music distributors for individual MP3 sales and will soon have our music up on several other sites including itunes.
Locally our CD is available at:
Amoeba Records (SF, Berkley)
Rasputin Records (All 7 locations)
Watts Music (Novato)
Backdoor Disc (Rohnert Park)
The Last Record Store (Santa Rosa)
...we will have many more to add in the very near future so if a visit to your local record store is your preference then shoot us a message and tell us what your favorite store is and we'll do our best to get it in stock there for you.
Thanks again to our good fans and friends, we hope to see you at a Cloakwheel show soon.
-Cloakwheel
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Athem
 
 
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OUR DEBUT ALBUM "THE EXTENDED MIND" WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE END OF MARCH!!! 

It
will only be available through www.lasercd.com until our first show
back.  after that you can buy them through us and a few other vendors
yet to be finalized.  you should be stoked because this our FIRST full
album and we have worked really hard for the past few years to bring
this to fruition.  enjoy the good news and ONLY 2 MORE WEEKS or so...
 
Athem is one of the hottest “new generation” Progressive Rock Band hailing from the Northeastern United States. Besides featuring remarkable guitars, striking bass, ethereal keyboards and noteworthy drumming, the songs are well composed, performed and create a massive sound that is matched by an electrifying stage presence. They are melodic, epic and symphonic, where the keyboards are the main highlight on several songs, with a powerful atmospheric instrumentation and nice vocal.

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Flashback Of Anger is very proud to announce that they have signed to famous Limb Music Products & Publishing, record label of such successful bands as Eldritch, Pagan's Mind, Rhapsody.
The debut album, Splinters of Life, will be out on April 9th.

Here is the tracklist:

1) By The Gates Of My Dreams
2) All I Have
3) Time Can Answer
4) Stars
5) A Void Within Me
6) Splinters Of Life
7) Strange Illusion
8) Outer World
9) Back In The Nightmare
10) Off With My Heart
11) Flashback Of Anger
 
Calendar updated.


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Steve, I have added the above 3 bands to the Prog Metal Chart (just in case you missed that in the PMT thread in the CZ zone)Thumbs Up

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Haken: 
 
See MS for audio samples (keep on eye on these guys in the future Wink)
 
 
Introducing HAKEN, one of the most exciting sounds to emerge from the modern progressive movement. Formed in 2007, HAKEN is a virtuoso and eclectic progressive rock/metal band from London, England, comprising some of the country's finest young musicians.

Within months of their first show in July 2007, they were billed in support of Riverside (Inside Out) at Camden’s prestigious Underworld. Since then they have performed headlining sets to packed houses around London, including several sold-out shows at "the best live music venue in south-west London", The Peel in Kingston, and on the strength of these performances HAKEN were recently selected to open for King’s X (Inside Out) at Camden’s impressive Electric Ballroom in January 2009. In its brief existence, HAKEN has become respected within the British metal community, and its unique and imaginative genre-bending approach has earned praise from all corners of the globe.

The members of HAKEN are established in their respective fields. Richard Henshall (guitars/keyboards) - aka Hen’s fret-board mastery is admired and respected amongst London's guitar-elite. Hen’s keyboard skills were recently employed by fellow prog-metal band To-Mera in support of Pain of Salvation. Hen has been a full time member of To-Mera since November 2007. Tom MacLean (bass guitar) studied jazz guitar at Trinity College of Music and is the guitarist in To-Mera, with the additional experience of supporting Dream Theater. Charlie Griffiths’ (guitar), projects (past and present) include Linear Sphere, in support of Dream Theater and runners-up in the 2002 Dream Theater song-writing competition, and Anchorhead, personally acclaimed by Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy. Charlie teaches at London's Guitar Institute and writes for globally published Guitar Technique and Total Guitar magazines. Ray Hearne (drums) studies at the Guildhall School of Music. Ray won the 2008 'Origin8' national composition competition and consequently worked alongside producers associated with Kano, U.N.K.L.E. and Queens of the Stone Age. In his former band, Ray supported Enter Shikari. Ross Jennings (vocals) has served many unsigned UK bands. Ross is respected for his charismatic stage presence and diverse range of vocal styles which he uses to execute his words with clarity and passion.

Gig on March 5th
 
 
 

Saw Haken, and the related To-Mera, live a few months ago when they supported Kings X in Wolvs, excellent group and definitely ones to keep an eye on.Thumbs Up
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Israel’s progressive folk metal masters ORPHANED LAND are currently recording the highly anticipated follow-up to 2004’s “Mabool”, vocalist Kobi Farhi states:

“Hello there to all the ORphaned warriors of light - we are very happy that we finally entered the studio to deliver you the long awaited concept album – “ORwarriOR”!
The album is going to be more than 70 minutes long and as usual many traditional instruments and languages will be involved in the process. In my opinion this is the best ORPHANED LAND album ever! We can't wait for you to put your hands on it and we look forward to tour and meet you all on the road! Check out our diary from the studio at our Ultimate Metal forum and see you all soon! Your Orphaned brother - Kobi.
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Click on the following link to read ORPHANED LAND’s regularly updated studio diary:
http://www. ultimatemetal. com/forum/orphaned-land/472194-orphaned-land-recording-orwarrior-diary-studio. html

“ORwarriOr” will be mixed by legendary producer Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, Opeth) and he comments as follows:

“Finally! I am very happy and look forward to mix ORPHANED LAND's new album, I'm sure this will be one of the greatest and most original albums in the metal scene!”

The album is expected to surface on Century Media Records in early autumn 2009, stay tuned to the band’s MySpace page for songs, videos and more updates regarding the new opus: http://www. myspace. com/orphanedmyspace
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Sons Of Seasons was founded by keyboarder & guitarist Oliver Palotai (Kamelot, Doro) who gathered some of the finest musicians in the scene. The band will release their debut album 'Gods Of Vermin' on 4th May 2009 for most of Europe.
Album info on calendar.
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Pathosray
 
have signed to Frontiers Records and announced the release date for their sophomore album "Sunless Skies"
 
Final tracklisting includes:
Crown Of Thorns, Behind The Shadows, Aurora, Quantic Enigma, In Your Arms, Sons Of The Sunless Sky, The Coldest Lullaby, Perpetual Eclipse, Poltergeist, For The Last Time (bonus track - Europe/USA), Rainfall (bonus track - Japan).
 
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^^ about time those guys recorded something new...
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From Kongh's myspace:
 
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 

Current mood:  mellow
Yes, times of movement has been brought upon thee. We will enter the studio tomorrow to kick off the recording sessions for our second album. Once again the place is Teknikkompaniet in Vetlanda, Sweden and hopefully the recording will be done in about a month. Keep checking back often for pictures, studio reports, pretentious videos where we speak bad english to each other and whatnot.
The album, to be entitled "Shadows of the shapeless" will include 5 massive tunes and we're aiming for a May release on both sides of the pond.
See you soon,
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Minsk new album "With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone" is to be released on relapse records on May 26 (US)/ June 1 (World)...
 
 
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^ Thanks again for the updates David. Clap
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