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Meshuggah Announce New Album ‘The Violent Sleep of Reason’
Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah have announced that they will be releasing their new album The Violent Sleep of Reason on October 7th. This will be the follow up to 2012’s Koloss (review), which follows the band’s pattern of releasing a new album once every three to four years.
Supposedly, the new album was inspired by Francisco Goya’s painting “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters“. The cover art was created by Keerych Luminokaya, who did the art for Koloss, The Ophidian Trek, and the albums featured in the 25 Years of Musical Deviance box set.
Pre-orders for The Violent Sleep of Reason are now open over at Nuclear Blast.
Upcoming tour dates with High on Fire:
10/10/2016 House Of Blues – Lake Buena Vista, FL*
10/11/2016 Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA
10/12/2016 The Pageant – St. Louis, MO
10/13/2016 Marathon Music Works – Nashville, TN
10/15/2016 Knottiest Mexico – Toluca, Mexico*
10/16/2016 House Of Blues – Houston, TX
10/17/2016 House Of Blues – Dallas, TX
10/19/2016 The Novo – Los Angeles, CA
10/20/2016 Brooklyn Bowl – Las Vegas, NV*
10/22/2016 Aftershock Festival – Elverta, CA*
10/24/2016 Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO
10/25/2016 Liberty Hall – Lawrence, KS
10/26/2016 Mill City Nights – Minneapolis, MN
10/28/2016 House Of Blues – Chicago, IL
10/29/2016 The Majestic – Detroit, MI
10/30/2016 Phoenix Concert Theatre – Toronto, ON CANADA
10/31/2016 Metropolis – Montreal, QC CANADA
11/02/2016 House Of Blues – Boston, MA
11/03/2016 Playstation Theater – New York, NY
11/04/2016 The Trocadero Theatre – Philadelphia, PA
11/05/2016 Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ
11/06/2016 The Fillmore – Silver Spring, MD
* MESHUGGAH only
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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