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We're Looking for Experienced HEAVY METAL & PROG Writers
Currently, Sea of Tranquility is accepting resumes and sample work from experienced heavy metal & prog writers. If you have experience writing for either print magazines or internet webzines, specifically for any form of heavy metal (black metal, death metal, power metal, metalcore, progressive metal, etc), and progressive rock, we want to hear from you! Also, must be willing to accept digital download promos as the format for review.
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| News: The Gabriel Construct CD news
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Posted by Pete Pardo on Sun, May 19 2013 @ 07:23 CDT
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| Concerts: Genius At Work – Steve Hackett revisits Genesis at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK
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Over the past few years Steve Hackett has been gradually incorporating more and more vintage era Genesis classics into his live shows, laying the groundwork for last year's excellent Genesis Revisited 2 album and this subsequent tour. Following on from the hugely successful run of dates in North America Hackett and his five piece band have now reached Europe. Sea of Tranquility's Dean Pedley was amongst the sold out audience at Birmingham's lavish Symphony Hall as the golden era that spanned 1971 – 1977 came alive once again with sometimes spectacular results.
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| News: LITTLE ATLAS Releases Automatic Day
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Little Atlas returns from a 5-year absence with their brand new, full-length CD release, "Automatic Day." Featuring 10 tracks, "Automatic Day" will be released by 10T Records on June 3, 2013, with an official brick and mortar retail street date of July 18.
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Posted by Pete Pardo on Fri, May 17 2013 @ 08:02 CDT
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| Concerts: The Pineapple Thief/The Red Paintings/Atlas : Empire Glasgow ABC2 14th May 2013
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If there's no rest for the wicked, then Bruce Soord and The Pineapple Thief must have been very naughty boys indeed. Not content with a UK tour in 2012 to support their excellent After The Wars album, those pilferers of pointy fruits brought a second whistle stop four date jaunt round the UK (this time in support of the Build A World EP) to an end with a masterful display of power and precision. Joining the fun were outlandish Aussies The Red Paintings and impressive young Glasgow upstarts Atlas : Empire.
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| Concerts: Kreator, Evile, & Xentrix @ The Ritz, Manchester UK 4/27/2013
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Three titans of Thrash, together on the same stage, for only three dates. At last the planets had aligned and I just had to catch this event at any cost.
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Posted by Pete Pardo on Tue, May 14 2013 @ 06:22 CDT
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| Concerts: The Heavy Heavy Monster Show - Lordi @ Institute, Birmingham, UK 05/10/2013
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Seven years since they exploded across the TV screens of Europe with their Eurovision Song Contest winning anthem 'Hard Rock Hallelujah', horror movie monster metallers Lordi are still going strong. Returning to the UK in support of new album To Beast Or Not To Beast, the Finnish five piece are still bringing back the balls to rock and roll. Sea of Tranquility's Dean Pedley reports from a gig that also included support from Italian power metal band Kaledon.
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| News: Prog Legends Flash Featuring Ray Bennett & Colin Carter To Release New CD!
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British progressive rock legends Flash, featuring founding members Ray Bennett & Colin Carter, will be releasing their highly anticipated new CD on Purple Pyramid Records on May 21, 2013. Titled 'Flash featuring Ray Bennett & Colin Carter', it's the first album by the group in 40 years, taking the band to a new level of creativity and virtuosity with this current set of progressive melodic rock tunes.
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Posted by Pete Pardo on Fri, May 10 2013 @ 15:24 CDT
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| Concerts: Goatwhore & more at Sounds Asylum, Middletown, NY 5/1/2013
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What better way to kick off May than a night of extreme heavy metal, and on this night New Orleans veterans Goatwhore bring their brand of Louisiana styled thrashy black metal to the small club called Sounds Asylum along with 3 Inches of Blood, Revocation, and Ramming Speed. Sea of Tranquility Publisher Pete Pardo was on hand and brings this local concert report.
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Posted by Pete Pardo on Thu, May 09 2013 @ 08:19 CDT
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| News: SCHEMATA THEORY: UK PROG METAL NEWCOMERS RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM
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Bursting onto the UK metal/prog-metal scene all guns blazing, energetic new Reading-based six-piece Schemata Theory prepare to unleash their explosive debut album 'Dry Lung Rhetoric' on June 3.
The album, which was recorded at the renowned Stakeout Studios and produced by Jason Wilcock (Fightstar, We Are The Ocean, The Ghost of A Thousand), features 11 tracks and includes a guest appearance from Mutiny Within's Chris Clancy on concluding final track, 'The Final Breath'.
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Posted by Pete Pardo on Mon, May 06 2013 @ 07:03 CDT
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| Interviews: James Malone Talks About the Latest Arsis CD, Unwelcome
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Arsis have built up a reputation over the years as being able to consistently deliver melodic and quite technical death metal & thrash, and their latest Nuclear Blast release Unwelcome is no exception, packed to the hilt with memorable hooks and challenging guitar work. Band leader, guitarist, and vocalist James Malone caught up with Sea of Tranquility Publisher Peter Pardo recently to talk about the brand new CD, the art of heavy metal songwriting, touring plans, and the state of the genre itself.
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Posted by Pete Pardo on Sat, May 04 2013 @ 06:51 CDT
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| Concerts: Saxon, Quireboys, and Redline @ Rock City, Nottingham, UK 4/19/2013
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It's Friday night at Nottingham's Rock City and I feel like it's the 80's all over again, the place is packed. It's good to see that in these hard times of financial instability and uncertainness people still hunger for live music.
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Posted by Pete Pardo on Sat, May 04 2013 @ 06:28 CDT
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| News: New studio album from progressive rock act Sanguine Hum
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William James writes:
Esoteric Antenna is pleased to announce the release of the eagerly awaited new studio album by modern progressive rock ensemble Sanguine Hum. 'The Weight of the World' sees Oxford, UK's Sanguine Hum expand their musical horizons on all fronts with a seven-track collection of diverse compositions - technically challenging and exciting yet always melodic and direct. Songs such as "From the Ground Up", "Cognoscenti" and "System for Solution" pursue the Porcupine Tree meets Radiohead approach of their debut record 'Diving Bell' with powerful yet intricate riffs propelling the songwriting that continues to make ever more inventive use of surprising twists and turns in the arrangement.
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Posted by Pete Pardo on Wed, May 01 2013 @ 07:19 CDT
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| News: TRACER Release New Album "El Pistolero" & Video
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To coincide with the release of their new album "El Pistolero" on Monday May 6, the Australian rock band TRACER, have just posted the video for their new single "El Pistolero" on YouTube.
Read on to watch the new video single, "El Pistolero".
The explosive, fast-moving, and graphic promo video is inspired by Robert Rodriguez's film Desperado, and features Michael Brown (vocals, guitar), Dre Wise (drums) and bassist Jett Heysen-Hicks, performing the song as if it's their last night on earth.
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| Concerts: Audrey Horne, The Mercy House, Sahg - Glasgow Ivory Blacks 28th April 2013
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With their fourth album Youngblood, Audrey Horne have made such a bold statement that their brand of melodic Classic Rock finally looks set to eclipse the heavier, more progressive tendencies of the band members other outfits - I, Enslaved, Sahg and Deride. Something that this Glasgow show, packed with a stunning display of power, melody and grin inducing good old fashioned fun, reinforced in spectacular style. Add to that the bristling riffs of opening band Sahg and the in your face, like us or loathe us attack of The Mercy House and Glasgow was treated to a triple bill of eclecticism that was brought together by the craft and skill of all three bands.
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| Interviews: Wars, Worlds and the Wise. An interview with Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief
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Since joining the ever interesting roster of Kscope Records, The UK's The Pineapple Thief have started to build up a real momentum, the band's last three excellent studio albums, Tightly Unwound, Someone Here Is Missing and last year's All The Wars bringing acclaim from fans and critics alike. Add to that a string of impressive live dates round The UK and Europe, another in a series of interesting EP releases - Build A World and a digital download live release, and the past few months have been very, very busy indeed for TPT mainman Bruce Soord. Sea of Tranquility's Steven Reid caught up with the songwriting, singing guitarist prior to the band's last set of live shows to support All The Wars, to discuss all sorts of pineapple thievery and an interesting side project with Jonas Renske, a key member of Katatonia, which is set to reveal just how wise crowds are...
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| Interviews: Half Past Four bring the Good Times - full band interview.
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Back in 2008 Multi-National, Canadian based act Half Past Four made a huge impact on the prog and art rock scenes with their excellent full debut release Rabbit In The Vestibule. Some five years down the line and HPF are back, this time with Good Times, an album which expertly stretches the progressive boundaries this band are so keen to explore. Sea of Tranquility's Steven Reid caught up with guitarist Constantin Necrasov, singer Kyree Vibrant, keyboard player Igor Kurtzman and bassist Dmitry "Les" Lesov (drummer Marcello completes the line-up) to try and discover what makes this Half Past Four tick...
Thanks also to the band's PR manager Yana Tsipckin for making this interview possible.
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| Interviews: Scotland's Comedy of Errors keeps the prog alive with Fanfare and Fantasy
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Sea of Tranquility's Mark Johnson reviewed Comedy of Errors' debut release Disobey, back in 2011, and since that review has been eagerly anticipating their new album. Comedy of Errors is a Scottish band that have been writing music and gigging since the early days of the Neo – prog surge of the 1980s. Jim Johnston is the keyboard player of Comedy of Errors and he welcomed the opportunity to discuss the band's latest album Fanfare and Fantasy with Mark in this in-depth interview.
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Posted by Pete Pardo on Tue, Apr 23 2013 @ 18:55 CDT
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| Concerts: Hammerfest V – In Fear of the Dragon - Day Three 03/17/2013
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Completing our extensive coverage from this year's Hammerfest festival in North Wales, the final day saw yet another diverse mix of metallic genres across the two stages. The glory days of the original NWOBHM was represented by veterans Angel Witch, influential Swedish doom metallers Candlemass returned to the UK and, bringing the event to a suitably cacophonous conclusion, were legendary grindcore pioneers Napalm Death.
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| Interviews: Rock Fantasy to Celebrate 28 Years with a Grand Re-Opening on 4/20/2013
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If you are a heavy metal & hard rock fan here in the Hudson Valley in Upstate New York, there's been one thing you can always count on over the last few decades, and that's Rock Fantasy, a music shop opened up by Steve Keeler way back in 1985 that is still going strong today. Offering up CDs, DVDs, t-shirts, patches, LPs, posters, smoke shop items, DVDs, and various other rock memorabilia, Rock Fantasy has been the one-stop shop for many metal fans for close to 30 years. Sea of Tranquility Publisher Pete Pardo recently caught up with his longtime friend Steve Keeler to talk about the upcoming Re-Opening date, pinball, metal concerts in the area, and much more!
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Posted by Pete Pardo on Wed, Apr 17 2013 @ 20:01 CDT
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| Concerts: Jagermeister Music Tour featuring Ghost, Gojira, & The Defiled 3/18/2013
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Who would believe that you could see three bands for the princely sum of £5 (about $8) in today's recession hit world. That's what the Jagermeister tour was all about, a platform to put on three bands and give some rising Metal maximum exposure for minimum cost, all at the Sheffield Academy in the U.K.
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Posted by Pete Pardo on Tue, Apr 16 2013 @ 19:20 CDT
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Tuesday, April 16
· U.D.O. Bring Their Teutonic Heavy Metal Attack to The Chance 4/11/2013 (0)
Friday, April 12
· Hammerfest V – In Fear of the Dragon - Day 1 03/15 & Day 2 03/16 2013 (0)
· Rival Sons @ Institute, Birmingham, UK, 04/11/2013 (0)
Tuesday, April 02
· Factory of Dreams returns with Some Kind of Poetic Destruction (0)
· Thy Art is Murder Brings the Hate (0)
Saturday, March 30
· Grand Magus & Primitai @ NQ Live, Manchester UK 2/26/2013 (0)
· An Evening With Nile in Salt Lake City (0)
· Clutch, Orange Goblin, Lionize, Scorpion Child-Salt Lake City, UT, The Depot (0)
Sunday, March 24
· An Intimate Chat With Karl Sanders of Nile (0)
· A Few Words With the Mighty Orange Goblin (0)
· Hell – The Greatest Show On Earth, 2/23/2013 (0)
Saturday, March 23
· Triaxis – South Wales Premier Metal Band Unleash Some Rage & Retribution (0)
Friday, March 22
· Long Distance Calling / Solstafir / Sahg - Glasgow; Ivory Blacks 20th March (0)
· From Beyond The Light – Absolva lay waste to Hammerfest V (0)
Monday, March 18
· Riverside/Jolly/Dianoya - Glasgow; Classic Grand 16th March 2013 (0)
Tuesday, March 12
· The rock world mourns the losses of Peter Banks, Alvin Lee, and Dan Toler (0)
Sunday, March 10
· Enslaved Take Their Riitiir Show to The Bowery Ballroom, NYC 2/22/2013 (0)
· Voices From the Dark featuring Marduk at The Chance 2/21/2013 (0)
· Pinnacle of Bedlam-the Latest Slab of Brutality from Suffocation (0)
· Testament, Flotsam and Jetsam, 4Arm, Merlin's Beard in SLC (0)
Wednesday, March 06
· UFO + 4Bitten at Institute, Birmingham, UK 03/03/2013 (0)
Sunday, March 03
· After Nine Years, Power Metal Act Heimdall Return With Aeneid (0)
Thursday, February 28
· S.O.N.G.S. from the Riverside - An Interview with Mariusz Duda (0)
Monday, February 25
· Orange Goblin leads a heavy night @ Rock City Nottingham, U.K, 2/13/2013 (0)
Wednesday, February 20
· A World With Heroes Cancer Charity Kiss Tribute Interview Part 2 Russ Dwarf (0)
Monday, February 18
· A World With Heroes Cancer Charity Kiss Tribute Interview Part 1 Bill Leverty (0)
· SOS Festival Line-up complete, with ex-members of AC/DC, UFO and MSG (0)
Sunday, February 17
· Kingcrow Unleash In Crescendo (0)
Monday, February 11
· Congratulations to Rush for winning our Best CD of 2012! (0)
Sunday, February 10
· The Sword & Lonely Kamel @ Slade Rooms Wolverhampton UK 1/6/2013 (0)
Wednesday, February 06
· The Enigmatic Aeon Zen - An interview with Rich Hinks (0)
Sunday, January 27
· Shadow Circus tackles A Wrinkle in Time with On a Dark and Stormy Night (0)
· Epic Industrialist Tour - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall, U.K 12/13/2012 (0)
· An Intimate Conversation with Testament's Chuck Billy (0)
Monday, January 21
· The Return Of Ugly Kid Joe... (0)
Sunday, January 20
· A Chat with German Power/Prog Metal Act Beyond the Bridge (0)
· Epica & Stream of Passion at Rescue Rooms, Nottingham U.K 12/11/12 (0)
Sunday, January 13
· Brazil's Newest Heavy Metal Export-Vandroya (0)
Tuesday, January 08
· Interview with Dan Baird & Warner E Hodges of Homemade Sin (0)
Sunday, December 30
· More Of What You Fancy From The Quireboys (0)
Saturday, December 29
· Iced Earth bassist Luke Appleton looks back on 2012 and ahead to 2013 (0)
Friday, December 28
· Introducing Night By Night (0)
Sunday, December 23
· Hard Rock Hell VI - Fistful Of Rock Day Three @ Pwllheli, Wales 12/02/2012 (0)
· Quofestive featuring Status Quo @ LG Arena, Birmingham, UK 12/17/2012 (0)
Friday, December 21
· Hard Rock Hell VI - Fistful Of Rock Day Two @ Pwllheli, Wales 12/01/2012 (0)
Wednesday, December 19
· Hard Rock Hell VI - Fistful Of Rock Day One @ Pwllheli, Wales 11/30/2012 (0)
Sunday, December 16
· New Sensations on the Thrash Scene? Meet Eversin! (0)
· Italian Power/Prog Metal Act Wind Rose Unleash Shadows Over Lothadruin (0)
Saturday, December 15
· Thin Lizzy 'The Farewell Tour' @ HMV Institute Birmingham, UK 12/11/2012 (0)
Sunday, December 09
· Brazilian Power Metal Act Scelerata Unleash The Sniper! (0)
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