– February twenty second, 2024 –
Watch The Music Video for New Single “Empty” HERE
North Sea Echoes, the brand new band that includes Fates Warning members Ray Alder and Jim Matheos, will launch their debut full-length, ‘Actually Good Horrible Issues‘, TOMORROW (February 23) on Metallic Blade. To commemorate the event, the duo has unveiled a music video for his or her new single, “Empty“, which may be seen beneath. When requested what followers can anticipate from the brand new observe, Alder retains it brief and not-so-sweet, “I feel this one is fairly darkish.”
Watch the Music Video for “Empty” HERE.
What press is saying about ‘Actually Good Horrible Issues‘:
“Actually Good Horrible Issues is a pressure of nature in its personal proper, and is worthy of repeated listens from metalheads and non-metalheads alike.” – Sonic Views
“an album that rewards a number of listens and opens up new sonic moods and territories.” – Cryptic Rock
“Actually Good Horrible Issues is neither good nor horrible. These songs are actually nice issues.” – Progressive Music Planet
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‘Actually Good Horrible Issues‘ (Tracklist)
01. Open E-book
02. Flowers in Decay
03. Unmoved
04. Throwing Stones
05. Empty
06. The Mission
07. The place I’m From
08. We Transfer Across the Solar
09. Contact the Sky
10. No Maps
BIO:
Ray Alder and Jim Matheos’ musical legacy is huge and lauded, each as collaborators and people. Alder has been the vocalist and primary co-writer for prog metallic heroes Fates Warning for the previous 35 years. With them, he has recorded 10 albums between 1988 (No Exit) and 2020 (Lengthy Day Good Evening). Additional rounding out his discography are seven albums with Redemption, two solo albums, and the band A-Z with Mark Zonder, which debuted in 2022.
Prolific and pioneering guitarist/producer Matheos is a co-founder of Fates Warning, the lineup debuting with 1984′s Evening on Bröcken on Metallic Blade. Along with 13 albums with Fates, Matheos’ myriad different work consists of a number of solo albums, 4 albums alongside former Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore, beneath the identify OSI, and new band, Kings of Mercia, a lineup that’s been termed “a hybrid; it’s heavy, however not metallic.”
“All through Actually Good Horrible Issues, Matheos and Alder serve up the sort of seductive melancholy Fates Warning followers will acknowledge,” says Jeff Wagner, creator of the Fates Warning e book Vacation spot Onward. “But there’s a totally completely different strategy right here: vocals are delivered with a form of nostalgic disappointment, and the guitar work is layered in such a manner as to really feel dreamlike. These are wealthy sonic landscapes, visiting locations haunting, stunning, spectral and secret. The Matheos/Alder partnership is taken to some new and great locations right here,” Wagner concludes.
Actually Good Horrible Issues reveals the breadth and flexibility of the acclaimed pair, together with a freshness that belies their lengthy musical partnership. “We each nonetheless love making music and we actually get pleasure from working collectively. There’s a very good quantity of chemistry there, I feel,” Matheos shares. “We each know what to anticipate from one another.“
North Sea Echoes – lineup
Jim Matheos – guitar
Ray Alder – vocals
North Sea Echoes on-line
https://northseaechoes.com
https://www.metalblade.com/northseaechoes
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