Set To Enter Studio In April For New Album

The wait is over, and one of the premier bands of the American progressive metal movement is back! Fates Warning are proud to announce that they will enter the studio in April to begin tracking on a new studio album - their first album of new material in nine years, and their first studio release for InsideOut Music.

The U.S. run will launch November 15 in Joliet, IL and wrap December 14 in Seattle, WA. The band's 11th studio album is set for a fall release, and will feature founding guitarist Jim Matheos, classic lineup members Ray Alder (vocals) and Frank Aresti (guitars), longtime bassist Joey Vera and drummer Bobby Jarzombek.

Call it a true classic rock triple header -- and the quintessential live concert experience.

In a career first, iconic and Grammy-winning rock band Yes will perform three of their classic albums in their entirety, all in one concert, on a special tour in 2013: 1971's The Yes Album, 1972's Close To The Edge and 1977's Going For The One. Music audiences will experience the albums, each representing an important milestone in Yes' career, performed from beginning to end.

Wounded Land and Psychedelicatessen To Be Re-issued As "Definitive Edition" Vinyl

Legendary British progressive metal maestros Threshold proclaim the MARCH of progress! Matching the title of their highly successful new masterpiece March Of Progress (out via Nuclear Blast since August 24, 2012), the band will finally return to the European stages in March of 2013. Guitarist Karl Groom states enthusiastically: "It will be great to be back on the road with Threshold - and in particular to play songs from our latest album!"

Make sure to be there when the magic happens:

Joe Bonamassa, the world’s premiere guitarist, will perform four exclusive London concerts during March 2013. Each concert will be specially filmed for DVD and will feature never-before performed live tracks. The four London concerts will chronicle Joe’s atmospheric rise from the intimate club atmosphere of The Borderline, to the prestigious Royal Albert Hall. The live in-concert DVDs will be released during fall 2013.

Hailed as The Guitar Event of the Year, Bonamassa will pay homage to the historic London venues he’s played by going back to his ten studio albums to perform songs for the very first time. The four London 2013 concerts will individually showcase a unique band configuration that will highlight diverse elements of Joe’s style. Each performance will be distinctive with different set lists. Collectively, there will be upwards of eighty new and old songs performed over the four nights that even the most die-hard Bonamassa fan will experience for the first time.

Performing Turn Of The Cards & Scheherazade and Other Stories
FMPM is proud to present the long awaited return to Montreal of English progressive rock band Renaissance, Thursday October 11th, 2012 at the Gesù (1200, De Bleury, Montreal · 514-861-4378) .

Renaissance rose from the ashes of the UK rock group, the Yardbirds, with vocalist Annie Haslam and principal songwriter and guitarist Michael Dunford joining at the dawn of the 1970's to define their sound as a fusion of folk rock and classical music. The band's lengthy career features fifteen albums with Haslam and Dunford remaining as the creative core.

Osada Vida, one of the most interesting Polish bands on the prog-rock scene, have just confirmed their appearance at the ProgStage 2012 festival in Israel. The event is scheduled for October 4th-7th, 2012 and will present heavy metal, progressive metal and some progressive rock. Swedish metal band Pain of Salvation will headline the festival. Other top acts include progressive rock band The Flower Kings (Sweden), metal band Andromeda (Sweden) and one of the most famous bands from Israel - Orphaned Land. Full details can be find at this location.

Progressive rockers Uriah Heep will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of their classic fourth album, Demons And Wizards by performing the LP in its entity at select U.S. shows this fall.

Demons And Wizards is regarded by many fans and critics alike as Uriah Heep's best album, often ranked against the preceding Look At Yourself. Even Rolling Stone magazine, which printed an infamously negative review of the band's debut album, ran a positive assessment of Demons And Wizards.

Two of the UK's most rapidly rising progressive/melodic hard rock acts Touchstone and The Reasoning have announced that they are to join forces for a co-headline tour of Europe this autumn.

The ten-date "Adventures In The City" tour unites the two bands as The Reasoning prepare their new studio album Adventures In Neverland for September 2012, and Touchstone celebrate the release of their back catalogue and new album The City Sleeps, which entered the UK rock charts at No. 36 on its release at the end of 2011. It will also mark an important year for the bands, having both recently signed new record deals (Touchstone with German label SPV/Steamhammer and The Reasoning with Cherry Red's dynamic front-line label Esoteric Antenna).

Pavlov's Dog Announce Live & Unleashed Tour 2012

"A band should start a comback only if they can perform bigger and more sophisticated as they were when they left. Pavlov's Dog did this terrificly successful. It's a furious, a moving to tears comeback!" (Eclipsed Magazine voted Echo & Boo on rank 13 of 2010's most important releases)

Joe Satriani (Chickenfoot), John Petrucci (Dream Theater) and Steve Morse (Deep Purple) will join forces for the South American edition of the G3 tour in October.

More shows will be announced soon.