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CD/DVD Releases: Threshold's Dead Reckoning Finished

Posted on Friday, December 29 @ 19:47:45 UTC by nightowl

Threshold have now finished recording their new album. The CD will be called Dead Reckoning and is due for release through Nuclear Blast Records on 23 March 2007. Dead Reckoning was produced by Karl Groom and Richard West.



The track list is as follows:

1. Slipstream
2. This Is Your Life
3. Elusive
4. Hollow
5. Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams
6. Fighting For Breath
7. Disappear
8. Safe To Fly
9. One Degree Down

Richard West checked in with this message: "It's great to finally be finished, it felt like we could keep working forever, but Nuclear Blast gave us a Christmas deadline and that helped us focus on finishing. We started writing over the summer with the intention of modernising our approach with a darker heavier sound. But once the writing starts the songs sometimes take over, so alongside the heavier tracks like 'Slipstream' and 'Hollow' there's a 10 minute progressive epic called 'Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams,' a huge Pink Floydesque ending to 'One Degree Down,' and the last song we wrote is a power ballad called 'Safe To Fly' which proved to be the missing piece of the puzzle.

"While Karl was busy tracking drums and guitars at Thin Ice Studios, I was recording vocals and keyboards at Bray Studios. It was a nice place to work, everyone from Iron Maiden to Cliff Richard were there rehearsing for tours, and I had a steady stream of musicians and crew popping in for coffee. I'd like to think it was to see me, but it was most likely the coffee, I get it freshly roasted to order from www.justcoffee.co.uk and it's probably the best coffee in the country - I strongly recommend the Guatemalan!

"At one stage we were going to call the album Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams, but in the end it was more suitable as a song title, it didn't sound solid or powerful enough to represent the overall sound of the album. Our fans were great, they started posting their own artwork for the Pilot title on our forum, based on everything from the Hammerfall artwork (their new album is called Threshold) to Dastardly and Mutley (cartoon characters). Our cover artist for the last few years has been Thomas Ewerhard and he did a great design for Pilot, but with the new album title Dead Reckoning came a new artist called Davide Nadalin who has done a wonderful cover for us, which we'll reveal in the new year. Thomas's artwork won't be wasted though, we hope to use that for something next year.

We've started announcing our live shows for 2007. Originally we were going to tour before the summer, but now it looks like we'll start the summer with some festivals and tour after that. Keep watching our website for the latest tour dates, and hopefully we'll get to see you all next year. Have a great Christmas! - Rich"

In other Threshold news:

Threshold drummer Johanne James has been named drummer of the year by The Classic Rock Society. The award was presented to him by the legendary Carl Palmer and CRS president Martin Hudson at their annual awards ceremony. As well as drumming for Threshold, Johanne fronts and drums for Kyrbgrinder, who's debut album Defiance is due for release in January.

Threshold are booked to perform at ProgPower USA next October. Other bands include Sonata Arctica, Pagan's Mind, Primal Fear, Redemption, Virgin Steele, Raintime, Firewind, Communic, Vanden Plas and Freak Kitchen. Threshold last played at the USA festival in 2002. Threshold are also booked to perform at Metalcamp 2007 in Slovenia next July. Metalcamp claims to be the hottest and longest metal event of 2007 with 7 days of camping and beach party, 5 days of live music across 2 stages, and more than 80 bands. For the latest tour details see www.thresh.net/touring.htm.

[Source: Threshold]

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