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BAND X FULL YOUTUBE STREAM

RidingEasy Records — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:00:10 +0000

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EXCLUSIVE VINYL REISSUE for Record Store Day 2024

1. Rip Van Winkle
2. Red Cloud
3. Trullion Alastor
4. Afterthought
5. Picking Mushrooms with Rabbit
6. Home
7. Black Hole

With its tongue in cheek title, The Best of Band X (there had been no previous Band X releases) snuck into the record racks in 1976, the first the world was to hear from musician/producer/writer/arranger (and later all-American hero) Craig Peyton. Fitting in somewhere between contemporaries like Weather Report, Headhunters and Stone Alliance, Craig Peyton definitely ploughed his own musical furrow even in an exceptionally fertile era. Originally a jazz drummer and vibraphonist, Craig was interested in utilizing the potential of some of the new synthesizers that were coming onto the market in that era, (beating even Stevie Wonder to the use of the Fairlight keyboard). Band X consisted of Alan Grzyb, Victor Preston and Joey Bellomo alongside their auteur, Craig Peyton. Despite being, broadly speaking, ‘jazz’, Craig’s music had a synthetic feel and, like many musical conceptions of the future, sounds decidedly retro-cool today. Drummer Bellomo contributed synthesizer work, and horn-player Grzyb also contributed keyboards. Bass-man Preston also played trombone, and alongside Grzyb’s bassoon and clarinet and the assorted electronics, it was not your standard jazz ensemble. Quirky song titles (some of which wouldn’t sound out of place on a prog-rock album from the same time) confirm the image we have of a musical maverick. Much of the current demand for this very hard to find album owes itself to the track Home: many have remarked on its similarity to the classic Steely Dan sound of the same era; other reference points might be Shuggie Otis and Michael Franks. It’s a poignant, floaty and ultimately unique song, with Craig providing the ‘blue-eyed’ vocal, as he does on the other vocal track Afterthought, which also sounds like it could’ve happily lived alongside Shuggie’s Inspiration Information album. A vocal and a lively slice of sequencer space-funk with some truly trippy keyboard work, here’s another track with loads of potential for contemporary appreciation.Among the other tracks, many will warm to Rip Van Winkle wherein a simple, chugging, funky bass and drums/vibes figure provides the backdrop for some haunting reed work that’s accompanied by Joey Bellomo’s synths …kind of presaging the kind of sound Steps Ahead would become so popular with later. Meanwhile, Trullion Allastor 2262 has a pastoral horn sound again that again shows the possibly unconscious influence of English prog-rock, something like a mini-classical piece, and definitely hinting at the incidental music for TV with which Peyton would go on to become very successful with. Tunes like ORed Cloud and Picking Mushrooms with Rabbit demonstrate his facility with a variety of musical styles (the latter is actually four –or is it five?- tunes in one), incorporating motifs from classical and military music. A spirit of iconoclastic experimentalism exudes from this album, the first step in a long musical career for its main man. Peyton would go on to rename his band (with some personnel changes) The Craig Peyton Group ( who also worked as a musician and arranger with luminaries including as diverse as James Brown, Melba Moore, Nona Hendrix, Levon Helm and Dan Hartman, while work for TV took up much of his time. He had a big adult-contemporary hit with Latitude 40 Degrees North in 1995. And all-American hero? He also got his pilot’s license, and has produced acclaimed films documenting his flights, with his own aerial photography and music. In 2001, Craig was diagnosed with an oesophegal cancer that looked to be terminal, but was beaten by an experimental treatment that included both the advances of modern science and the help of a healer. Craig’s journey back from the brink was documented in his book, Cloudman, Surviving Stage IV Cancer: A New Beginning.

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SADIST – Breathin' Cancer (30th Anniversary Edition)

Agonia Records — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:45:21 +0000

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► This is a re-recorded version of the classic Sadist song “Breathin’ Cancer”, for the 30th anniversary of the band’s debut album, “Above The Light” (1993).

► Credits:
Produced by Tommy Talamanca at Nadir Music Studios in Genoa (Italy) in January 2023. The song features long-standing members Talamanca (guitars, bass, keyboards & piano) and Trevor (vocals), as well as drummer Romain Gulon (ex-Necrophagist, ex-Benighted), who joined Sadist in 2020.

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Unboxing: SADIST “Firescorched”

Agonia Records — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:45:05 +0000

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SADIST – Firescorched (Official Album Stream)

Agonia Records — Thu, 19 May 2022 15:45:03 +0000

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Out May 20th, 2022
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TETHRA – Gravity Pt I Ascension (Single 2020)

666MrDoom — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 23:15:11 +0000

Empire of the Void | OUT March 20th (Black Lion Records)
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TETHRA is a Melancholic Doom Death quintet based in Novara, Italy, formed in 2008
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Clode Tethra – Vocals
Federico Monti – Guitars
Alberto Coerezza – Guitars
Salvatore Duca – Bass
Daniele Ferru – Drums

Lele Triton (Guest Keyboardists)
Gogo Melone, (Guest Vocals on “Light Year Breath”)

Recorded & Mixed – Matt Stancioiu (from August to November 2019 at Elnor Studios)
Mastered – Greg Chandler (Esoteric) at Priory Recordings Studios
Korvo aka Korvuz Korax – Cover art
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Release Date March 20th

The concept around this new work focuses on the duality between what is hidden inside the depths of the human soul and the vastness sidereal space, both empires of the void.

The band plays a personal blend of Progressive Doom, Death Metal and the most evocative Gothic Metal that allows them to have a very dynamic songwriting while remaining faithful to the sound built in more than ten years of activity.

“Empire of the Void” was recorded and mixed from August to November 2019 at Elnor Studios by Matt Stancioiu and mastered at Priory Recordings Studios by Greg Chandler (Esoteric).

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THREAT SIGNAL – Nostalgia (Official Track Stream)

Agonia Records — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:49:48 +0000

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