Music

Leprous ‘Bilateral’ Limited Vinyl Details Released: I Want It!

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10 years ago

August 14, 2014

I’ve been a champion of Norwegian prog rock/metal band Leprous for a while now. Their 2011 album Bilateral is an album I still blast, not just because of the amazing songwriting or the fantastic technicality but also because it’s just so damn fun! And for the longest time, I’ve been wanting the album on vinyl, which seemed like an impossible pipe dream. But no longer.

Finnish record label Blood Music has revealed details for the upcoming Bilateral vinyl reissue and I’m pretty much losing my mind. The album will be coming out on limited 2xLP multi-splatter with a frosted clear base (unf…) and is going to be available for pre-order in exactly one week.

Now, when I say this is limited, I mean it. There will only be 250 copies released, 100 for the USA/Canada and 150 for the rest of the world, so you better be ready next Thursday to snag your copy. The album will then be released on October 28th.

Head below to check out some artwork plans.

PRE-ORDER: August 20th at 5PM Finnish time (10AM NYC).
RELEASE: October 28th.

Specs:
* First time ever vinyl pressing of the amazing prog-metal classic.
* 180-gram+ Multi-Splatter [colors subject to change slightly – but relatively similar to what is pictured] on Frosted Clear Base 2xLP.
* Mastered specifically for vinyl from the 24-bit original mixes, cut at 45 RPM for optimum fidelity.
* 350gsm heavyweight board triple gatefold, utilizing the high resolution original artwork.
* Black inner sleeves.

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Music

“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…