Poland’s Progressive Rock shooting stars RIVERSIDE are premiering the first new music or their much anticipated upcoming fifth studio album “Shrine Of New Generation Slaves” today.
Check about the online-teaser here: http://youtu.be/KOB8BCv9ZmE
Furthermore, RIVERSIDE will soon be releasing a digital download version for the first single off “SONGS”:
“Celebrity Touch” (artwork pictured on top!) will be available, with an edit-version as b-side,
from digital retailers as of December 17th, 2012 in Europe.
RIVERSIDE checked in with the following comment:
“The lyrics on the new album deal with different situations we face in our modern times and how we sometimes become enslaved by them and by the style of life they dictate. For instance, we are dominated and bombarded by increasingly stupefying media. The media, in turn, is dominated by more and more people who are known for their well-knownness… Celebrities, the modern representatives of a need which lies deep within us all and is rarely satisfied – the feeling of importance. This feeling, and some of the dilemmas and complications connected with it, is the subject of our newest single – “Celebrity Touch”.
Musically, we still try to extend the bridge to connect the new music to the old. In this track we achieved some kind of original mixture and I hope you will enjoy this piece of new album.”
The artwork for the “Celebrity Touch” single as well as for the “SONGS” album was designed once again by Travis Smith (www.seempieces.com), who has already worked on all the previous releases of the band as well as for artists like Avenged Sevenfold, Devin Townsend, Anathema, Nevermore or Opeth.
“SONGS” will be released in Europe on January 21st, 2013 and in North America on February 5th, 2013 via InsideOutMusic.
The album’s tracklisting reads as follows:
RIVERSIDE – “Shrine Of New Generation Slaves”
1. New Generation Slave (4:17)
2. The Depth of Self-Delusion (7:39)
3. Celebrity Touch (6:48)
4. We Got Used To Us (4:12)
5. Feel Like Falling (5:17)
6. Deprived [Irretrievably Lost Imagination] (8:26)
7. Escalator Shrine (12:41)
8. Coda (1:39)
“Shrine Of New Generation Slaves” was recorded at Serakos studio in Warsaw, Poland (where the “Reality Dream” trilogy” was also tracked) with Magda Srzednicka and Robert Srzednicki.
Here is also an updated list of confirmed tourdates for RIVERSIDE:
RIVERSIDE – “New Generation Tour” + Jolly & Dianoya:
Presented in Germany by Eclipsed, Rock Hard and Powermetal.de
09.03.2013 Dresden (Germany) – Tante Ju
10.03.2013 Leipzig (Germany) – Werk 2
11.03.2013 Berlin (Germany) – K17
12.03.2013 Osnabrück (Germany) – Rosenhof
14.03.2013 London (UK) – O2 Islington Academy
15.03.2013 Sheffield (UK) – The Corporation / Y-Prog 2013
16.03.2013 Glasgow (UK) – Classic Grand
17.03.2013 Leamington Spa (UK) – The Assembly
19.03.2013 Vosselaar (Belgium) – Biebob
20.03.2013 Paris (France) – Le Divan du Monde
22.03.2013 Haarlem (The Netherlands) – Patronaat
23.03.2013 Hengelo (The Netherlands) – Metropool
24.03.2013 Weert (The Netherlands) – De Bosuil
25.03.2013 Köln (Germany) – Live Music Hall
27.03.2013 Karlsruhe (Germany) – Substage
28.03.2013 Darmstadt (Germany) – Central Station
More RIVERSIDE live shows:
04.04.2013 Konin (Poland) – Oskard
05.04.2013 Poznan (Poland) – Eskulap
06.04.2013 Walbrzych (Poland) – MDK
07.04.2013 Wroclaw (Poland) – Eter
11.04.2013 Katowice (Poland) – Mega Club
13.04.2013 Kraków (Poland – Studio
14.04.2013 Warsaw (Poland) – Progresja
21.04.2013 Gdansk (Poland) – Parlament
04.05.2013 Gettysburg (US) – Rosfest 2013
You can still read about the album’s recording process of the new album by visiting the band’s online blog here:
http://www.riversideband.pl/
A video interview with the band directly from the studio can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
“Shrine Of New Generation Slaves” is the full-length follow-up to “Anno Domini High Definition“, which had entered the sales charts in Poland at # 1 (Gold album status by now!), Germany at # 94 and The Netherlands on # 58 upon release in 2009. In 2011, RIVERSIDE last released a special EP entitled “Memories In My Head” in order to celebrate the band’s 10th anniversary of existence.
RIVERSIDE Discography:
Out Of Myself – CD/LP 2003
Voices In My Head – EP 2004/2005
Second Life Syndrome – CD/LP 2005
Rapid Eye Movement – CD/LP 2007
Reality Dream – 2DVD/2CD 2008/2009
Anno Domini High Definition – CD/LP 2009
Memories In My Head – EP 2011
Shrine Of New Generation Slaves – CD/LP 2013
RIVERSIDE Line-Up:
Mariusz Duda – vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar
Piotr Grudziński – guitars
Piotr Kozieradzki – drums
Michał Łapaj – keyboards
Stay tuned for further news on RIVERSIDE and their upcoming studio album in the coming weeks…
RIVERSIDE online:
http://www.riversideband.pl
http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.myspace.com/