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Leprous Working On Followup To ‘Coal’: Short N. American Tour Announced

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10 years ago

August 5, 2014

Norwegian progressive rock/metal band Leprous have announced that they will be embarking on a short N. American tour this September, beginning with a performance at Atlanta’s Progpower USA. This will be followed by six dates, two of which are in Canada. If you’re going to the Detroit show, you better believe you’ll see me there!

The band comments:

We’re over-excited to announce that we’ll finally do some shows in the USA and Canada in September! It has always been a dream for us to do a US/Canada tour, and to start the tour in one of the coolest festivals in the country is an honor! Even though the tour is rather short we get to visit many great places. We promise to give everything we have to give, so we recommend you to attend a show near you!

The band has also announced that they are working on a followup to last year’s Coal. Vocalist Einar Solberg stated the following:

It’s been a very intense spring, where we’ve had the goal to write two song sketches every week. The purpose was that we did not want to spend lots of time perfecting ideas that were never that good in the first place, thus being able to choose between the ones with the most potential before starting making proper songs out of it. The way we work now allows us to maximize the potential instead of spending lots of time trying to save a poor sketch.

In May we had 30 sketches, and after a lot of talk back and forth we’ve selected approximately half of them for further development. I still don’t know how many songs we will end up with on the final album, but now we will have the luxury of putting together the “perfect” combination.

I have been twisting and turning my creativity to the point of the extremely tiring, but you can’t sit there and wait for the inspiration to magically fall into your lap. Some of the best sketches were written when I least expected to be creative, which is a good proof that you just have to keep on writing no matter what. I’m very happy about those months with hard work now.

Head below for the N. American tour schedule.

Tour dates:
12.09.2014 Atlanta (USA) – Progpower USA
16.09.2014 Detroit (USA) – The Token Lounge
17.09.2014 Chicago (USA) – Reggie’s
18.09.2014 Toronto (Canada) – El Mocambo
19.09.2014 Ottawa (Canada) – Mavericks
20.09.2014 New York (USA) – Webster Hall
21.09.2014 Springfield (USA) – Empire

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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

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2 weeks ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

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…