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Seven years after their visionary album “Artificial Paradise”, three years after their conceptual masterpiece “Posthumous Silence” and one year after their acclaimed “Live” DVD, now “Force of Gravity” – Sylvan’s seventh and most spectacular studio CD, will be released. “Force of Gravity” – this is 70 minutes of music, eleven brand new, thrilling songs: a unique album, which carries both the vibes of the ‘70th and the handwriting of the ‘New Artrock’.

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Believe ’s third full-length album entitled “This Bread Is Mine” will be released by Metal Mind on 31st August in Europe and 6th October in USA (via MVD). The band has just posted on their official Myspace site a full version of Darkness, yet another track taken from the album. “This Bread Is Mine” will be available in two versions. The standard edition will feature 11 tracks.

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Frogg Cafe has just started to mix our new studio CD which will be entitled "Bateless Edge". It will be out in the fall along with some added digital goodies.

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Metal Mind presents “Playing off the Board”, the first live album by one of the best progressive metal bands, Andromeda. This Swedish quintet offers powerful and sublime compositions that are both structurally intricate and overflowing with a vast spectrum of emotions. “Playing off the Board” includes live performance recorded at the Wyspianski Theater, Poland in autumn 2006, when the band was promoting their most recent album at the time “Chimera”. The band’s first live release features over one hour of progressive music at its very best. The CD is scheduled for release on 24th August in Europe and 6th October in USA (via MVD).

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Surgeland Records, a division of Serge Entertainment Group LLC, has announced an unconventional release date of August 28th for "End of Ride Revisited" by rock band Paris Keeling. The release date falls on a Friday rather than the standard Tuesday release date protocol the larger labels follow. The 16-song set features songs previously released on the 2006 Paris Keeling CD "End of Ride" along with bonus tracks and remixes, and contains the renowned vocal talents of Kelly Keeling (Baton Rouge, Michael Schenker Group, Blue Murder, Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus, King Kobra, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, O'2L) and the lauded guitar and production work of Marty Paris (The Marty Paris Band, Permanent Reverse) along with several celebrity musicians. The collaboration between Paris and Keeling began several years ago with the culmination of their songwriting styles blossoming into melodic rock/pop political and relationship-based songs.

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“Tempo”, the new album by Brazilian progressive rock veterans Banda Do Sol, marks their return to the scene after a 27-year hiatus. The album was mixed in California, USA, by Billy Sherwood (of Yes fame) and was mastered by Joe Gastwirt, the famous American engineer who worked with Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson and Ramones.

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Dweezil Zappa has teamed up with Charlie Boswell of AMD and Dangerous Music on the Zappa Plays Zappa tour with the “Room Service Rig”, a recording rig which Dweezil uses to immediately studio quality mixes and mastering from his hotel room after the show for fans. In a joint announcement with AMD, Dangerous Music released details of Dweezil Zappa ’s road recording rig using 48-channels of Dangerous 2-Bus LT analog summing and Dangerous Monitor ST speaker controller, allowing immediate mixing of the ‘Zappa Plays Zappa’ live shows — even in a hotel room. The “Room Service Rig” consists of a PC Audio Labs computer powered by dual AMD Opteron quad-core processors along with three 2-Bus LT summing amps and monitor ST, providing large-format analog console mixing quality on the road.

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Todd Rundgren announced that he will film and record his “A Wizard – A True Star” concert for a forthcoming live DVD and live CD when he plays the Palace Theater in Stamford, Connecticut on 9th September. The two-disc set is scheduled for an early 2010 release, via Hi-Fi Recordings. The live recordings will include an all-star line-up consisting of former members of Utopia, The Cars, Meat Loaf’s band, and The Tubes: Todd Rundgren (vocals, guitar), Roger Powell (synthesizers and keyboards), Greg Hawkes (synthesizers and keyboards), Kasim Sulton (bass), Jesse Gress (guitar), Bobby Strickland (saxophone), and Prairie Prince (drums). The tour will mark the first time Rundgren has performed the this highly influential prog rock album in its entirety (there are several songs from AWATS that have never been performed live anywhere, full-stop).

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After their headline appearance at Bloodstock Festival last weekend, Sweden's rock band Europe will release their highly anticipated new studio album “Last Look at Eden” on September 14th.

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The new Apogee album “Mystery Remains” is available now at Musea Records' CD store.

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The new Fernwood CD "Sangita" is available now at Djam Karet’s website and CD-Baby. Following on the heels of their widely heralded debut release "Almeria", this 12-track offering greatly expands upon their previous work. Utilizing an expanded palette of world instruments, Gayle Ellett (Djam Karet) and Todd Montgomery create music that is both familiar and exotic, lush and melodic, warm and inspirational. They create contemporary acoustic music that is beautiful and elegant, with a strong cinematic and pan-cultural feel. By playing traditional World instruments in new and interesting ways, they have created a new hybrid style that is uniquely their own. And it is these qualities that make the music of Fernwood the perfect antidote for our modern, stress-filled lives.

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A new Blackfield DVD+CD set is now available to pre-order from the K-scope store. Blackfield is the acclaimed collaboration between Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen. “Live in NYC” captures a gig recorded at the Bowery Ballroom in New York in 2007 performing tracks from the critically acclaimed “Blackfield” and “Blackfield-II” records. Over the past few years Steven Wilson’s Porcupine Tree have made the transition from a solo project to genuine international stars with their latest album “Fear of a Blank Planet” selling over 125,000 worldwide. Aviv Geffen is Israel’s leading counter culture rock musician. A huge star in his native country, while his outspoken political views have caused huge controversy his records have been greeted with equal amounts of adulation, earning him a string of gold albums. In recent years Aviv has worked with various other artists including Elbow and Belle & Sebastian but it has been his partnership with Steven that has proved the most fertile. This is the first time that the gig has been available on CD. The DVD also includes the bonus features of 3 video clips and a photo gallery. The set shall be in stores from Agst 24.

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