Friday 03/05/2010 Northampton, United Kingdom
Jethro Tull spring 2010 U.K. tour dates (so far):

Saturday 03/06/2010 Oxford, United Kingdom
Sunday 03/07/2010 St. Albans, United Kingdom
Tuesday 03/09/2010 Torquay, United Kingdom
Wednesday 03/10/2010 Brighton, United Kingdom
Thursday 03/11/2010 Ipswich, United Kingdom
Friday 03/12/2010 Reading, United Kingdom
Saturday 03/13/2010 Southampton, United Kingdom
Sunday 03/14/2010 High Wycombe, United Kingdom
Wednesday 03/17/2010 London, United Kingdom
Thursday 03/18/2010 Bristol, United Kingdom
Friday 03/19/2010 Croydon, United Kingdom
Monday 03/22/2010 Derby, United Kingdom
Tuesday 03/23/2010 Manchester, United Kingdom
Wednesday 03/24/2010 Birmingham, United Kingdom
Thursday 03/25/2010 York, United Kingdom
Saturday 03/27/2010 Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Sunday 03/28/2010 Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Monday 03/29/2010 Perth, United Kingdom
Tuesday 03/30/2010 Glasgow, United Kingdom
Wednesday 03/31/2010 Liverpool, United Kingdom
Thursday 04/01/2010 Sheffield, United Kingdom

Los Angeles’ female-fronted progressive metallers ECHOES OF ETERNITY have debuted a new track entitled “Twilight Fires” on their official MySpace page. The song comes from their upcoming sophomore album, As Shadows Burn, set for North American release on September 22nd.

States guitarist / songwriter Brandon S. Patton about the track: “When we wrote this song, we asked ourselves, ‘What would it sound like if Francine [Boucher, vocalist] was singing for Morbid Angel or Dissection?’ This is what we came up with. It has a definite black metal/death metal feel to it. I don’t think anyone’s ever heard this type of female vocal with blast beats and double bass drumming in a context quite like this. It’s dark, seductive and powerful! The way Francine belts it out on this song blows my fucking mind and every one in the band loves the middle section of the song, where there is a slower ‘gallop-picked’ riff that is mean as fuck.”

The track listing for As Shadows Burn is as follows:

01. Ten Of Swords

02. A Veiled Horizon

03. Memories Of Blood And Gold

04. The Scarlet Embrace

05. Descent Of A Blackened Soul

06. Twilight Fires

07. Buried Beneath A Thousand Dreams

08. Letalis Deus

09. Funeral In The Sky

Visit ECHOES OF ETERNITY online at www.myspace.com/ECHOESOFETERNITY

Progressive rock band Osada Vida returns this autumn with their third full-length album - “Uninvited Dreams”. Their brand new offering is a follow up to the highly acclaimed albums “Three Seats Behind A Triangle” (2007) and “The Body Parts Party” (2008).

Rafal Paluszek (keyboards) says about their work in the studio: “When we started to work on a new album in early February, we were focused on one thing - there would be no compromises. We had no idea what the title would be, how expensive gear we would have to use to record it, or what the front cover should look like. What we all were sure about though was that on our new album a lot of things would happen. When composing, we realized how much the new music is diversified. Therefore, good mixing would be very important and had to be done by professionals. Marcin Chlebowski, with whom we had a pleasure to work for the third time, did a great job as an engineer and a producer of the new album. He managed to strengthen the power of the heaviest parts as well as emphasize the gentleness of more atmospheric moments, giving them more space. Thanks to him the music sounds now very selective. This album has definitely the best sound of all Osada Vida’s releases.”
As it was with their previous releases, Osada Vida manifests a wide variety of influences and styles: symphonic prog-rock, neo-prog, prog metal, alternative rock and metal. “Uninvited Dreams” is yet another concept-album that draws from the tradition of ambitious rock distinctive of Yes, Porcupine Tree and Pain Of Salvation.

“Uninvited Dreams” will be released by Metal Mind Productions on 23rd November in Europe and 1st December in USA (via MVD). The album will be available in two editions: as a standard jewel case CD and as a digipak with bonus tracks. More details to follow soon!

PORCUPINE TREE will be gracing American shores with their progressive presence this month!
The band’s Roadrunner US Debut “The Incident” is out on September 22, 2009.

It’s an epic, sprawling, lush masterwork of sounds – but don’t take my word for it. If you want to check it, get in touch!

The Incident is a stunning 55-minute musical statement, described by vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Steven Wilson as “a slightly surreal song cycle about beginnings and endings and the sense that ‘after this, things will never be the same again.’” The seeds of the idea that led to The Incident came to Wilson as he became caught up in a highway traffic jam while driving past an accident. “There was a sign saying ‘POLICE – INCIDENT’ and everyone was slowing down to rubber neck to see what had happened,” he recalls. “Afterwards, it struck me that ‘incident’ is a very detached word for something so destructive and traumatic for the people involved. And then I had the sensation that the spirit of someone that had died in the accident entered into my car and was sitting next to me. The irony of such a cold expression for such seismic events appealed to me, and I began to pick out other ‘incidents’ reported in the media and news,” continues Wilson. “I wrote about the evacuation of teenage girls from a religious cult in Texas, a family terrorizing its neighbors, a body found floating in a river by some people on a fishing trip, and more. Each song is written in the first person and tries to humanize the detached media reportage.”