Progressive Rock & Progressive Metal - E-Zine: RIVERSIDE – First single “Vale Of Tears” off “Wasteland” album released; Album pre-order started!

sexta-feira, julho 27, 2018

RIVERSIDE – First single “Vale Of Tears” off “Wasteland” album released; Album pre-order started!

Album pre-order started!

Polish Rock masters RIVERSIDE will release their seventh studio album "Wasteland" via InsideOutMusic on September 28th, 2018 and are therefore now launching its first single outtake "Vale Of Tears", enhancing the physical pre-order start of the album.

Check out "Vale Of Tears" via IOM's YouTube channel here:

https://youtu.be/001IMO53JwY

Or stream it here:

https://Riverside.lnk.to/Wasteland

RIVERSIDE's line-up and the credits for "Vale Of Tears" as follows:

Mariusz Duda - vocals, electric guitar, bass, piccolo bass

Piotr Kozieradzki - drums

Michał Łapaj - keyboards and Hammond Organ

Guitar solo by Mateusz Owczarek

Music and lyrics by Mariusz Duda

Artwork by Travis Smith

Clip by Tomasz Pulsakowski / Sightsphere

The track-listing for RIVERSIDE "Wasteland" album reads as follows:

RIVERSIDE – "Wasteland":

1. The Day After

2. Acid Rain

3. Vale Of Tears

4. Guardian Angel

5. Lament

6. The Struggle For Survival

7. River Down Below

8. Wasteland

9. The Night Before

Next to the standard edition of "Wasteland" as Jewelcase CD, CD Digipak, and Digital Album, the release will also be available as limited edition Mediabook CD (with extended booklet, a bonus track radio edit version and a set of 3 stickers) and as Gatefold 2LP (on 180gr. vinyl with the album on CD as bonus and an Etching of the D-Side).

The various editions and limitations of the vinyl release are as follows:

Black 2LP+CD: Unlimited

Clear 2LP+CD: 100x copies / IOM Webshop Europe

Silver 2LP+CD: 100x copies / IOM Webshop Europe

Golden 2LP+CD: 100x copies / Laser's Edge – IOM Webshop USA

Lilac 2LP+CD: 200x copies / JPC Germany

Dark Green 2LP+CD: 300x copies / Burning Shed UK

White 2LP+CD: 300x copies / CM Distro Europe

Pre-order "Wasteland" in your format of choice of choice from the IOM webstore here:

https://www.insideoutshop.de/Artist/Riverside/20863?Page=1&PageSize=25&Sort=13

Or from other locations here: https://Riverside.lnk.to/Wasteland

Attention: The digital pre-order option for "Wasteland" will start next week, on August 3rd.

RIVERSIDE's Mariusz Duda checked in with the following comment about the album's overall concept: "I'd been thinking about exploring "post-apocalyptic" regions for a long time. I read books, watched films, played video games, all connected by stories about an attempt to survive in a world that had just ended. But writing such a story myself didn't make much sense until now. RIVERSIDEare starting a new chapter and after our recent experiences, a story like that has gained more meaning. "Wasteland" is mostly about what's happening in the world these days but it also makes a reference to the tragedy that befell the band in 2016. Musically, we've returned to darker sounds but we have also turned a new page and recorded the album in a different style. It's still RIVERSIDE but expressed in a much deeper and more mature way. Most artists say the same thing while promoting their new releases: that they have just created their best work to date. I won't say that because everything we have done so far has been consistently very good and unique. But I will say that we have never had such an incredible emotional load on any of our previous releases, and it's not likely that we will ever make such a charged album again. "Wasteland" is an epic, multidimensional, poetic and very deep album. Perhaps of the once in a lifetime kind."

RIVERSIDE's "Wasteland" marks the first studio album effort with newly composed music after the tragic passing of founding member and guitarist Piotr Grudziński on February 21st, 2016.