Roger Waters The Wall, the eponymous soundtrack to the globally acclaimed feature film by Roger Waters and Sean Evans, will be released by Columbia / Legacy Recordings on November 20, 2015. Available physically on 2CD, 3LP vinyl, and digitally, the set captures Waters’ sold-out 2010-2013 “The Wall Live” tour, the first complete staging of the classic Pink Floyd concept album since 1990 and is currently available for pre-order at RogerWaters.com. A tour-de-force of rock & roll stagecraft anchored in a powerful message of peace and compassion, “The Wall Live” became a must-see concert event for music fans everywhere. It played to over 4.5 million people at more than 200 shows across four continents, making it the most successful worldwide tour by a solo artist in history.

Roger Waters The Wall is produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Beck, Paul McCartney) and offers an exhilarating listening experience for generations to enjoy. It is the ultimate concert souvenir – not only for the fans who saw the show, but for those who weren’t there or who may be discovering “The Wall” for the first time.

Roger Waters The Wall also serves as a companion piece to the feature film, ROGER WATERS THE WALL. Directed by Sean Evans and Roger Waters, ROGER WATERS THE WALL fuses the epic and the personal to operate on three levels simultaneously: as an immersive concert experience; as a road movie of Waters’ reckoning with the impact of war on his own family; and as a stirring antiwar film about the human cost of conflict. The film premiered in a “one night only” global cinema presentation in September, drawing hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide.

Originally released in 1979, Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” was the band’s first narrative concept album. Waters drew from personal history to chart the life and times of the central character, a mentally disintegrating rock star haunted by the wartime death of the father he never knew. The album’s thematic content and musical mastery, exemplified by worldwide chart-topper “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)” and radio staples “Run Like Hell” and “Comfortably Numb,” struck a chord with audiences worldwide. Pink Floyd’s subsequent 1980-81 tour for the album was unprecedented in its use of sets and theatrics, but the scale of production limited it to 31 dates in just four cities. “The Wall” wouldn’t be seen again until 1990, when Waters and an all-star cast performed a benefit production on the site of the no-man’s-land that had until recently divided West and East Germany. Twenty years later, concertgoers had the opportunity to experience “The Wall” anew, and millions of fans affirmed that its message and music remain potent and relevant as ever. With Roger Waters The Wall, that opportunity lives on.

The film, ROGER WATERS THE WALL, will be released on DVD, Blu-Ray, Digital Download, and 2-disc Blu-Ray Special Edition by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Roger Waters – Roger Waters The Wall 2CD/3LP VINYL / DIGITAL 

(release date: November 20)

Disc 1

1. In the Flesh?

2. The Thin Ice

3. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1

4. The Happiest Days of Our Lives

5. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2

6. The Ballad of Jean Charles de Menezes

7. Mother

8. Goodbye Blue Sky

9. Empty Spaces

10. What Shall We Do Now?

11. Young Lust

12. One of My Turns

13. Don’t Leave Me Now

14. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3

15. Last Few Bricks

16. Goodbye Cruel World

Disc 2

1. Hey You

2. Is There Anybody Out There?

3. Nobody Home

4. Vera

5. Bring the Boys Back Home

6. Comfortably Numb

7. The Show Must Go On

8. In The Flesh

9. Run Like Hell

10. Waiting for the Worms

11. Stop

12. The Trial

13. Outside the Wall

Soundtrack band members

Vocals, Guitar and Bass: Roger Waters

Guitars: Dave Kilminster

Guitars: Snowy White

Guitars: G.E. Smith

Keyboards: Jon Carin

Hammond & Piano: Harry Waters

Drums: Graham Broad

Vocals: Robbie Wyckoff

Background Vocals: Jon Joyce

Background Vocals: Pat Lennon

Background Vocals: Mark Lennon

Background Vocals: Kipp Lennon

Rock Legends YES begin preparations for their 2016 UK-European Tour

Grammy Award winning pioneers of progressive rock, YES have achieved worldwide success with a history spanning 47 years and 21 studio albums. The band is known for its expansive songs, mystical lyrics, elaborate album art and live stage sets.

Earlier this year YES tragically lost founding member, bassist Chris Squire. Chris had a career spanning over four decades and has influenced as well as played with some of the most notable musicians in rock and pop history. “It’s hard to imagine the future without Chris! He will always be in our thoughts and mind. Chris was a one-off, larger than life human being, who brought a serious amount to everything he was part of,” said YES guitarist, Steve Howe

“It’s been harder than I can say to put thoughts to words—to express the sense of loss I feel upon the passing of my cherished friend and band mate, Chris Squire. I am without one of the most important, most loved people in my life. Chris was always a gentle but strong leader; a steadfast rock of my existence,” added YES drummer, Alan White.

YES MOVING FORWARD & STRONGER THAN EVER

There is no better way to honor the memory of Chris than moving forward and continuing the legacy of the band he co-founded back in 1968.

YES have just finished a successful tour in North America with rock legends TOTO, and Billy Sherwood doing an amazing job taking over for Chris. YES are now planning a massive 25 date tour across the UK and Europe. YES, for the first time in their history, will perform 1971’s ‘Fragile’ and 1980’s ‘Drama’.

“This is the first time we’ll be performing ‘Drama’ in its entirety. And most of the songs haven’t been performed in some 30 years,” stated Steve Howe.

YES are among of the longest lasting and the most successful of the ’70s progressive rock groups, proving to be one of the lasting success stories from that musical genre. The band, founded in 1968, overcame a generational shift in its audience and the departure of its most visible members at key points in its history to reach the end of the century as the definitive progressive rock band. YES retained the same sound, and performed much of the same repertoire they were doing in 1971, and for their trouble, found themselves being taken seriously a quarter of a century later. Their audience remained huge because they had always attracted younger listeners drawn to their mix of daunting virtuosity, cosmic (often mystical) lyrics, complex musical textures, and powerful yet delicate lead vocals.

UK and European Tour Date 2016

27th April – Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, UK

29th April – City Hall, Newcastle, UK

30th April – Apollo, Manchester, UK

2nd May – Philharmonic, Liverpool, UK

3rd May – City Hall, Sheffield, UK

4th May – Colston Hall, Bristol, UK

6th May – Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK 

7th May – Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK

9th May – New Theatre, Oxford, UK 

10th May – Royal Albert Hall, London, UK 

13th May – Olympia Paris, France 

14th May – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium 

15th May – Tivolivredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands

17th May – Mehr Theater, Hamburg, Germany 

19th May – Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany

20th May – Haus Avensee, Leipzig, Germany 

21st May – Admiralspalast, Berlin, Germany 

23rd May – Beethovenhalle, Bonn, Germany

24th May – Hegelsaal, Stuttgart, Germany

25th May – Cirkus Krone, Munich, Germany

27th May – Volkshaus, Zurich, Switzerland 

28th May – Teatro Nazionale, Milan, Italy 

29th May – Gran Teatro Geox, Padova, Italy

31st May – Dbihall, Florence, Italy

1st June – Teatro Olimpico, Rome, Italy

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IRFAN’s new, third album “The Eternal Return” is out through the French label PRIKOSNOVENIE /Mandalia-Music.

8 years after the majestic album "Seraphim", Irfan are now back with an album which continues the beauty of the journey: 'The Eternal Return'. This new album was recorded with the original singer of the band Denitza Seraphim.
The new masterpiece counts 10 titles; it travels from the Sahara desert, to the Siberian steppes via the Gardens of Jerusalem and even the mystical worlds of Hildegarde Von Bingen.

The flutes are hypnotic and the voices transcendental. Transcendence is all across the album, together with the theme of the eternal return, return to our original source, the Garden of Eden.
The male/female duo unavoidably reminds us of Dead Can Dance ; Irfan adapts "Salamander" from the album "Toward the within".

How can we best define this album? Overpowering ? Mystical ? Dreamlike ? Romantic ? Touched by divine grace ? All at once. The quintet gathers the Earth, the Sky, the fire and water in a kind of modern liturgy which honours the past, the Egyptian, the medieval and the Christian cultures. This journey, through numerous oriental instruments such as oud, santoor, psalterion, daf, bodhran, duduk, ney, kaval elevates us to the level of Life’s mystery.
May Irfan’s music allow you to dream, dance, sing and see beyond the veil of illusions to taste the beauty of now / the present moment.
Musical references of this album draw from Dead Can Dance, Azam Ali Niyaz, Hildegarde Von Bingen.

Irfan will do a tour in 2015/2016 to introduce their new album to the public

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Mortiis has unveiled the video for "Doppelganger," the first single from the long-awaited upcoming The Great Deceiver album.

The "Doppelganger" single will also be available as a free download at www.mortiis.com beginning Monday, October 5. The download also includes a :Wumpscut: remix, the downloadable video, a screensaver and other graphics.

"As a song, 'Doppelganger' not so much investigates or peeks into a conflicted psyche, as it just rips it open and exposes someone for being a two faced piece of shit," Mortiis said. "I absolutely see myself as that. Sometimes. Other times I try to be a good person. I often fail. Perhaps I treat myself harshly. But it´s there now, in my face, and I don´t disagree with what the song is saying."

The video, directed by Robyn Van Swank with Nick Plotquin, brings the track to life with horrific images of bloodletting, mutilation and torture. "I thought there was a rough sort of irony in it all with the physical and psychological mutilation," Mortiis said. "The knife imitates the words...the truth bleeds out..."

The video for "Doppelganger" is also Mortiis' reaction to years of being artistically held back by record companies that shied away from the graphic content that visually sums up Mortiis' music. "I always thought that was ridiculous," he said. "We wanted to make videos that people would notice, that would cause a reaction, something they wouldn´t forget as soon as the next video came on. I always thought that if our music or imagery pissed someone off, or made them want to puke in their mouths that would be a way better reaction than indifference."

Mortiis had previously discussed making a video that would be one straight seen of self-mutilation but always knew the powers that be would put the kibosh on it. When he connected with Von Swank to discuss filming "Doppelganger," self-mutilation was naturally the first topic.

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October 6, 2015 - New York based Dark Alternative Rock band Echo Black has released their debut music video "Burn Another Day" (featuring Davey Suicide) which originally premiered with REVOLVER Magazine and was directed by Nathan Crooker. The track was produced by Nick Scott and is available for purchase now on iTunes & Amazon. The band also has announced the dates of their upcoming North American tour with Combichrist and The Birthday Massacre. The tour kicks off on October 28th in Baltimore, Maryland and works its way throughout the United States wrapping up on November 23rd in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Watch Echo Black's "Burn Another Day" (featuring Davey Suicide) music video below:

www.echoblackmusic.com