Anticipated Release: Katatonia | Night Is the New Day

This October 27th, not only will be be able to pick up Between The Buried And Me's new album, but we will also be looking through the store for the new Katatonia record, Night Is the New Day, which we probably won't find considering I haven't found one of their CD's in any local CD store yet. That's a shame because I've grown to love their previous release, The Great Cold Distance. They rest of their albums are great too, by the way.

Night Is the New Day is apparently their most diverse, and their best record to date, though every band says that once they've finished a new record. I'm personally hoping the direction is more like two of the four b-sides for The Great Cold Distance, "Unfurl", and "Dissolving Bonds", although hardcore fans i'm sure would be displeased if they went to a more angelic, melodic direction such as those two tracks.

Either way I'm sure it's going to be a good record, and we can at least order it offline by the 27th of October. Judging by the artwork, it should be a fitting CD to be released during the season of Holloween.

New Tool in 2010.

Apparently Tool are in the finishing stages of the writing process for their last record. This is my other favorite band besides dredg. Words cannot describe my excitement and unfortunate expectations. This simply better be really, really, really good.

Preview The Incident

Head over to www.myspace.com/porcupinetree to hear a 7 minute long sampler of the 55 minute long first disc of Porcupine Tree's upcoming new CD, The Incident, which has been pushed up to September 14th instead of the 21st.

From what I can tell, this album could be every sound the band has managed to produce, thrown into a blender, and then arranged over a 55 minute continuous piece. The heavier parts sound like something off of Nil Recurring, the prettier parts sound brilliant, and there's definitely some homage to Pink Floyd as usual. I cannot wait to hear the entirety of this song/album, as well as the 4 seperate songs on disc 2.

Depths blog.

http://depthsband.blogspot.com/

There's the blog for my band. I'll be updating it throughout the writing process of the CD.

Head to www.myspace.com/depthsband later this summer to hear some stuff too.

Anticipated Release: Caspian | Tertia

1. Mei
2. La Cerva
3. Ghosts from the Garden City
4. Malacoda
5. Epochs in Dmaj
6. Of Foam and Wave
7. Concrescense
8. The Raven
9. Vienne
10. Sycamore

I wasn't much of a fan of Caspian's previous record, The Four Trees, but after hearing two tracks from their upcoming CD Tertia, I have a feeling it'll blow it out of the water. Be on the lookout for this CD as it may be one of the best post rock albums to come out this year.

Tertia is out on August 11th.

Highly Anticipated Release: Between The Buried And Me | The Great Misdirect

Between The Buried and Me are back with a new album out this fall called The Great Misdirect. According to the band, it's better than Colors, but every band says their new work is better than their previous. Apparently the album is also heavier, darker, and weirder than Colors, so in that sense, it may indeed have a chance. The epic track listing is below, and i'll post the cover art when that's revealed. Get stoked! October 27th is the release date.

1. Mirrors
2. Obfuscation
3. Disease, Injury, Madness
4. Fossil Genera - A Feed from Cloud Mountain
5. Desert of Song
6. Swim to the Moon

You Can't Take It With You

Last week I made a post about one of my anticipated albums of the year. As Tall As Lions' You Can't Take It With You. I've been able to listen to the record only a day or two since making that post. I wrote a short but sweet write up over at www.rabbitholemusic.com. Since writing those thoughts, and already mentioning how it's their best CD, I've listened to the album several more times. This CD is truly AWESOME, and top 10 of the year material. The album consists of their best song written yet ("In Case of Rapture"), their most uniquely depressing song yet, ("Sleepyhead"), their best single yet, ("Circles"), and a few songs that take a few spins to click, but in the end really end up making the album special.

Be ready on August 18th to hear one of the year's best surprises.