Prog Metal news & releases(Ministry Of Lost Souls)

 

Metal Mind Productions proudly presents the first DVD of one of the most important progressive rock bands - Riverside!

Riverside, the band hailing from Warsaw, Poland, can best be described as a stylistic blend of atmospheric rock and metal elements, resulting in a sound similar to that of Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Dream Theater, and Tool, while still maintaining an identity of their own. Since the release of their debut album, Riverside have built a solid fan base in progressive rock genre.

In May 2008, the band went on a mini-tour across Poland. The most significant date of the tour was May, 17th when Riverside played a special, over-two-hour gig in Toya Studios in Łódź. The show was treated as a summary of the “Reality Dream Trilogy” (Out Of Myself – 2003, Second Life Syndrome – 2005 & Rapid Eye Movement - 2007). Apart from the great performance of the most important songs from the band’s three big releases, the band also prepared the best lighting in their live history with a few screens that showed some special visuals. The concert in Łódź was recorded and, so far, it was available in a limited audio only edition during their “Reality Dream Tour” in December 2008.

Today, the fans of Riverside have a chance to see that special performance in its full glory as it is released as a double DVD. Apart from the complete performance in Łódź, “Reality Dream” 2DVD also includes a selection of live performances in various places around the world, including Canada, Germany and Holland, plus a documentary “Behind the Curtain – A film by John Vis” and a photo gallery. The graphic design was, once again, handled by Travis Smith (painter for such bands as Opeth, Anathema, and Devin Townsend).

"Reality Dream" 2 DVD will be available on 7th December 2009 in Europe (except for France - 11th January 2010) and 23rd February 2010 in USA (via MVD).

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Riverside was founded by guitarist Piotr Grudziński, drummer Piotr Kozieradzki and vocalist/bassist Mariusz Duda in 2001. Soon after the recording of their debut album, “Out Of Myself”, keyboardist Michał Łapaj joined the band, completing the line-up which has impressed fans and media alike with their great technical skills. The band’s most recent fourth full-length album “Anno Domini High Definition” was released in mid 2009. The album sees Riverside take another step in the evolution of their extremely significant sound, showing a total focus on the here and now. “We don’t want to be one of those living-in-the-past prog bands,” Mariusz Duda (vocal/bass) points out. “We feel that we have something new to say, and lots of moments on this album feature a fresh approach to some things. First of all, our main influence – our lives, or to be more precise, the speed of our lives. That’s why we had to cut an extremely dynamic and pretty short record, which suits the times we live in.” Experts have called Riverside a stylistic mix of Tool, Porcupine Tree and Dream Theater, but Mariusz Duda reckons that other influences are more dominant on "Anno Domini High Definition": “We wanted to reflect the energy of the early 70's and combine it with modern sounds. Now I think there is more of a Rush, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple sound. But at the end of the day, this record ultimately sounds like Riverside.”

Line-up: Piotr Grudziński (Guitar), Mariusz Duda (Vocals, Bass), Piotr Kozieradzki (Drums), Michał Łapaj (Keyboards).

Riverside
“Reality Dream”

Label: ProgTeam Managment / Distribution: Metal Mind Productions
Cat. No.: PT_001
Barcode: 5903427872760
Format: 2 DVD
Genre: progressive rock
Release date: 07.12.09 Europe / 11.01.10 France / 23.02.2010 USA

Tracklist:

DVD 1:

1. Intro
2. The Same River
3. Out Of Myself
4. Volte – Face
5. Rainbow Box
6. 02 Panic Room
7. Reality Dream III
8. I Turned You Down
9. Dance With The Shadow
10. Parasomnia
11. Second Life Syndrome
12. The Curtain Falls

DVD 2:

Encores:
1. Before
2. Ultimate Trip
Live Performances:
3. Beyond The Eyelids (Unna, Germany 2007)
4. Loose Heart (Unna, Germany 2007)
5. Back To The River (Montreal, Canada 2008)
6. Conceiving You (Montreal, Canada 2008)
7. I Believe (Aschaffenburg, Germany 2007)
8. Lucid Dream IV (Fulda, Germany 2008)
9. Reality Dream II (Baarlo, Holland 2006)

Bonus features:
Behind the Curtain – A Film by John Vis, Photo gallery, Credits

 

After the excellent "Collusion"  Prisma have confirmed they will be back in the studio January 2010 to record their new album.

 

They will be supporting Riverside and if you are lucky enough to go you will hear some of their new material.

ORPHANED LAND - reveal release date of new album; comment on album concept!

 

 

 

Hello Everyone.

Mehida's second full length album "The Eminent Storm" will be released this week 18.11.2009 in Finland by Bullroser records, and in the iTunes and several other digital media places.
We're still working with licensing the album to other countries as well. We will inform you as soon as possible how get yourself a copy of the album in your area. If you have questions or if you want to order the cd, you can e-mail to bullroser(at)gmail.com

 

 

See calendar for full details.

 

 

3rd and 4th place in just plain folks awards in ....Nashville..... That's pretty cool for a bunch of no good Swedish guys.
The new album will be delayed because of Johans health issues. As soon as he gets better we will continue, please send him your thoughts.
New singer will be announced and we will not continue with Lion music.

Right now all my work is been put on THE MURDER OF MY SWEET and I'm having soo much fun, I can't remember having this much fun since High school.
In this band we help each other in different areas and all are so devoted to the band.
Not like in ME where I wrote and made on 98% of the albums...

I know some of you don't like the idea of me going "commercial", please listen to the album of "The murder of my sweet" first and then make up your mind, there is soooooo much in there...
I have to see where this road leads down to and I have found some amazing musicians down the road. As Johan is sick and tired of the playing bass and the business, I went out and found a really great bass player named Henrik Linder (Blowsight) he is young, hungry for success and most of all motivated,.
Also, I feel really good about playing drums again (used to hate it...) Never had so much energy as I have now and hopefully I will see all Mind's ey fans on the road when The murder of my sweet starts to play more live, bring all your ME cd's and let's have a beer.

Until next album then!

Your humble servant,
Daniel Flores

Deadsoul Tribe

 

(Shame! They were a mighty fine band!!)

 

 

 

"This is It“

 

Here is now the Announcement of the end from the Band

“Deadsoul tribe”

First we want to thank all of the loyal DST fans and friends who supported us over all those years. In the past 10 years of travelling and performing in several different Countries and Areas we met so many great and nice people we will never forget, well actually there will be much more we gonna miss,…great memories that is what we'll take with us !

Maybe some of you asking yourself what Happens, well we 4 are still friends, but with Deadsoul tribe we finally didn’t got to the point were we thought we would be at that time even if we had such a wonderful time. And as life and people are changing, also WE changed! And to start something else/new we thought the best and maybe last time for it would be right now, as we also won’t get younger, right *lol*.Another thing is that we made a live Dvd(some of u knew about) but there are no info whether or when we release that, but Adel is still taking care here and than on the Myspace site and if any news about the Dvd comming up you will find them there .Well let's see what the future brings, but for now we finally have to say “Good Bye” to all of you and THX so much 4 the wonderful Journey we had the last decade, best wishes much *LOVE* and take care,…Greetz from “The Tribe” - Devon, Adel, Roland, Rollz,…” A Lullaby for Deadsoul Tribe ”

 

   *salivates at the thought!*

Orphaned Land New Album Trailer!

 

 

 

 

The band has entered the studio for the third CD in March 2009.

We aim for a spring 2010 release. The working title for the album is called "The Lotus Effect".

Some titles of new songs: "Shades Of Hades", "Driftwood", "All But Gone", "Tip-Toe the Fault Line", "On Again / Off Again", "Lotus", "Seamripper & The Blanket Statement" plus some more to come !

Expect an album with some new influences, one song has a typically salsa groove throughout the song, an other song has a real blast beat in it, plus we also recorded a really long epic song, divided into seven parts (total length about 24 minutes) which will close The Lotus Effect.