Threshold - March Of Progress (Limited Edition) (2012)

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Threshold - March Of Progress (Limited Edition) (2012)

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Threshold - March Of Progress (Limited Edition) (2012)

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Year : 2012
Style : Progressive Metal
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 152 mb


Bio:

Threshold is a progressive metal band, formed in Surrey, UK in the late 1980s.Threshold began their career in 1988, initially playing covers of metal groups like Ratt and Testament. As they continued playing together, they began to write their own songs, and eventually stopped playing covers altogether. Early recordings were released locally on cassette under the band name "If Not, Why?". They played their first gig at The Compasses in Egham, Surrey, with Jon Jeary on vocals and Ian Bennett on bass. In 1992, they signed their first record deal, and after adding vocalist Damian Wilson to the group alongside guitarists Karl Groom and Nick Midson, bassist Jon Jeary and drummer Tony Grinham, produced their first commercial recording, "Intervention," which was released on a Dutch progressive rock compilation album. Shortly afterwards, keyboardist Richard West joined the band, and he remains with them to this day.The band's debut album, Wounded Land, was released in 1993, taking its name and some thematic elements from Stephen R. Donaldson's novel of the same name. Wilson was unavailable to join the band for the follow-up tour, and so Glynn Morgan was recruited to replace him. He sang on the band's 1994 second recording, Psychedelicatessen, which spawned a music video for the song "Innocent," the band's first. The following year, Morgan and the band toured Europe and recorded some of their performances for the short live album, Livedelica.Threshold took a break before their next effort, during which time Morgan and then-drummer Jay Micciche left to form Mindfeed. Rather than finding an unknown singer to replace him, the band turned again to Damian Wilson, and together they recorded 1997's Extinct Instinct. They followed this with another tour of Europe, this time supported by Enchant. Additionally, Johanne James, the band's current drummer, played with them for the first time during this tour. Wilson was unavailable for their next album, so former Sargant Fury vocalist Andrew "Mac" McDermott, joined to record Clone and would remain with them until 2007.In 2001, Threshold released Hypothetical, which saw Johanne James firmly cemented as the band's permanent drummer. Another lineup change occurred in 2003, when bassist Jon Jeary left and was replaced by Steve Anderson. Around this time the band also re-released their first three studio albums in Special Editions, with bonus tracks, a remastered sound, expanded liner notes and, in the case of Wounded Land and Psychedelicatessen, special CD-ROM content. Their newer albums, starting with Hypothetical, were released in Limited Editions, with similar bonus content. Currently, Clone is the band's only regular release to not have an enhanced version, although it is possible that one will be produced in the future.Threshold left their longtime label, InsideOut Music, in 2006 to join Nuclear Blast Records. The band released Dead Reckoning which spawned a music video for an edit of the song 'Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams'. The song also appeared on the 2008 movie soundtrack In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. This marks the first occasion of a song by the band appearing in a motion picture.In July 2007 vocalist Mac left the band and original singer Damian Wilson returned as Threshold's frontman for the first time in nearly a decade for the band's tour dates which extended into 2009.InsideOut Music released the first official Threshold compilation in November 2007. The album, titled "The Ravages of Time," is a two-disc set, covering all of the band's official albums from Wounded Land to Dead Reckoning.In 2009 the band released a limited edition eight-disc singles box set, including previously unreleased b-sides and brand new re-recordings of old demo songs released in other forms before, including Smile At the Moon, (which was debuted live on the 2009 Essence of Progression Tour), Shifting Sands, Half Way Home and Fist of Tongues.On 5 November 2010, Threshold stated on their website that they had started writing a new album. The post stated "the new album is due for release through Nuclear Blast Records sometime in 2011" and that they "will record the new volume at Thin Ice Studios in the UK, with production as usual by Karl Groom and Richard West." The release date has now been revised to 2012.On 3 August 2011, former vocalist Andrew McDermott died of kidney failure.On 24 August 2012, Nuclear Blast announced the release of March of Progress. It was the first album to feature Damian Wilson on vocals since 1997.On March 25, 2014 they announced their new record, which is due to be released September 2014, the follow-up to "March Of Progress" will be called "For The Journey". The album is being produced at Thin Ice Studios in England, by band members Karl Groom (guitars) and Richard West (keyboards). Commented Richard West: "Our recording sessions have been wonderful, we’ve really enjoyed making this record. All the basic parts are recorded so now it's just a case of finishing our solos, compiling the vocals and adding more production moments. I think we've made a very solid record, we're really looking forward to putting it out there!". Final mixing will take place at Thin Ice Studios in May.

Album:

March of Progress is the ninth studio album by progressive metal band Threshold. It is the first studio album on which original lead vocalist Damian Wilson sings since his return in 2007. It is also their second album on their current label, Nuclear Blast. The limited edition includes a bonus track, "Divinity".March of Progress is another one of the high points of Threshold’s career, but it is a triumph which was attained at a high cost. Just after Dead Reckoning was released, Mac suddenly left the band – and then, in 2011, the heartbreaking news came that Mac had died of kidney failure. Given the long radio silence between Reckoning and March, clearly both events threw Threshold for a loop, but March of Progress showed definitively that they were able to power through and come back swinging.Damian Wilson reappears, smooth vibrato tenor intact as though he had never left, as the permanent vocalist on this album. But March doesn’t actually throw back to his frillier ‘90’s work on Wounded Land and Extinct Instinct. Stylistically, it is up-to-date. It charts a careful middle passage between the rangy, power-metallic stylings of Reckoning and the progressive spit-shine polish of Subsurface. At this point, the Formula is down to a well-practised art form and not really in need of much adjustment, but Groom and West are far from resting on their laurels – both musically and lyrically, it’s clear that they still have a great deal to say, and are insistent on saying it all with as much class and conviction as they can bring to bear.Thematically, March provides us with a broad and colourful range of emotion, both playing to Damian’s strengths as a singer, and expressing grief over the loss of Mac. The theme of perseverance and persistence, at the ragged edges of personal will and in the face of adversity, rears its head with dogged regularity: ‘Staring at the Sun’, ‘The Hours’, ‘Don’t Look Down’ and the pounding, doomy-as-fuck ‘The Rubicon’. In some cases, the constant upbeat exhortations to stand firm in the face of life’s troubles can wear – ‘Don’t Look Down’ in particular approaches flower-metal territory with its happy-freak vibe and poppy chorus.But all of this alternates with, and is thrown into sharp relief by, some of the most despairing and melancholy work Threshold has done to date: the lonely meandering echoes and bleak imagery of ‘Colophon’, but also the out-and-out tear-jerking ‘That’s Why We Came’. The latter is a particularly poignant example, punctuated by soul-searing wails. ‘You’ve witnessed the pain that cannot be explained – as landscapes erase, we’re leading the way…’ The band clearly put their all into writing this album – their disillusionment as well as their determination. And so they carry on…This is all interspersed with the same kind of penetrating, prophetic warnings of the perils of political correctness and thought-policing, dismay at smug political complacency, doubts about the global technocratic experiment, and keen observations about the self-defeating tensions in modern consumer society, that marked Subsurface ten years before. ‘Sliding away, from plenty to dependency we fall; subsiding again, collapsing from the burden of it all – but we think we’re on a march of progress!’ They note all this, even in the grand view, without being preachy or condescending. It’s still clear where they stand, though – even though they see some dangers coming out of their own tribe and focus with great clarity on those, they still understand full well that ‘we fall when we surrender to the corporation view’, and that ‘our faith can only offer what we faithfully pursue’.If everything I’ve just described here sounds like too much heavy lifting for one single album to do, that’s because it is. March of Progress is nothing if not ambitious, even for a band as capable and as wide-reaching as Threshold. (Notably, it’s also their longest full-length release yet, clocking in at 69 minutes!) It’s imaginable how an album like this could have fallen apart into an incoherent and frustrating mess. But it didn’t.In the end, Threshold not only didn’t collapse. The pressure merely added lustre to their alchemy, and a diamond emerged from the ashes.

Line-Up:

Damian Wilson – lead vocals
Karl Groom – guitar, backing vocals
Richard West – keyboards
Steve Anderson – bass guitar
Pete Morten – guitar
Johanne James – drums

Tracklist:

01. Ashes 06:51
02. Return of the Thought Police 06:09
03. Staring at the Sun 04:26
04. Liberty Complacency Dependency 07:49
05. Colophon 06:01
06. The Hours 08:15
07. That's Why We Came 05:41
08. Don't Look Down 08:13
09. Coda 05:23
10. Rubicon 10:22
11. Divinity 6:28 (Bonus Track)


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