– February 1st, 2024 –
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Debut Album ‘Actually Good Horrible Issues’ out February 23
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North Sea Echoes, the brand new band that includes Fates Warning members Ray Alder and Jim Matheos, have dropped a brand new single from their upcoming studio debut. Contemporary off the discharge of “Open Ebook“, the band is completely satisfied to share the tune “Unmoved“, together with a stirring music video that includes each Alder and Matheos. It’s the second single off the duo’s debut full-length, ‘Actually Good Horrible Factors’, which is able to see a February twenty third launch by way of Metallic Blade.
Talking on the lyrical ideas behind “Unmoved“, Ray Alder shares, “Some individuals coping with despair usually exhibit a exceptional capacity to hide their internal struggles by presenting a facade of happiness to the world.”
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‘Actually Good Horrible Issues‘ (Tracklist)
01. Open Ebook
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 steel heroes Fates Warning for the previous 35 years. With them, he has recorded 10 albums between 1988 (No Exit) and 2020 (Lengthy Day Good Night time). 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 Night time on Bröcken on Metallic Blade. Along with 13 albums with Fates, Matheos’ myriad different work contains a number of solo albums, 4 albums alongside former Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore, below the title OSI, and new band, Kings of Mercia, a lineup that’s been termed “a hybrid; it’s heavy, however not steel.”
“All through Actually Good Horrible Issues, Matheos and Alder serve up the form of seductive melancholy Fates Warning followers will acknowledge,” says Jeff Wagner, creator of the Fates Warning guide Vacation spot Onward. “But there’s a completely completely different method right here: vocals are delivered with a form of nostalgic disappointment, and the guitar work is layered in such a means as to really feel dreamlike. These are wealthy sonic landscapes, visiting locations haunting, lovely, 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 take pleasure in 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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