Информация для тех, кого уже сейчас интересуют грядущие прог-релизы. В общем, короткий список групп, чьи новые диски ожидаются к выходу в 2009 году.
Blind Ego, Credo, Cryptic Vision, Galahad, IQ (“Frequency”), Karnataka (“The Gathering Light”, весна-лето), K 2 (рабочее название “Black Garden)), Mangrove (“Beyond Reality”), Manning ("Number Ten", февраль), Metamorphosis (“Dark”, весна), Mindfields, OSI (весна; музыканты - Kevin Moore, Jim Matheos plus PT drummer Gavin Harrison, a guest appearance by Mikael Åkerfeldt from Opeth), Queensryche (“'American Soldier”, весна), Satellite (“Nostalgia”, март), SBB (“Iron Curtain”, конец января), Shadowland, Silhouette (“Moods”), Solstice, Tinyfish, Touchstone and many, many more…
Pure Reason Revolution (“Amor Vincit Omnia”, март), Steve Thorne (“Into The Ether”, апрель), ACT ("5th"), Cross (The Thrill of Nothingness”), Dream Theater, Iluzjon - поляки (“Silent Andromeda”), Leap Day (ex-members of Flamborough Head, King Eider, Nice Beavier), Magnum, Mr. So & So.
THE GATHERING will release their next studio album in April 2009, called "The West Pole". This band have found a new female vocalist (replacement for Anneke van Giersbergen) and will have two female guest singers on the CD.
The album, containing 9 tracks, is produced by René Rutten and will be released on their own Psychonaut Records label.
The new PENDRAGON DVD will be called "Concerto Maximo" and should be released during the early months of 2009. The total running time of the DVD is approximately three hours. The main feature was recorded last year, live in Katowice, on their 30th Anniversary Tour. Artwork has been done by Killustration and is based on the Pure concept.
Daedalus (“The Never Ending Illusion”), Glacier (“Ashes For The Monarch”), Phideaux (“Number Seven”), Umphrey’s Mc Gee (“The Bottom Half”).