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 Post subject: Palace In Thunderland Announce Details Of Their New Album
PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:30 am 

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Palace In Thunderland Announce Details Of Their New Album, "In The Afterglow Of Unity."

After an arduous, two year long writing process, which was plagued by sickness, injuries, surgeries, locusts, random phases of catatonic introspection, Gary Busey, and overzealous tart toters, Palace In Thunderland have finally commenced recording their latest full length album. Entitled "In The Afterglow Of Unity", the new songs take a sharp and decisive turn from their past material, delving head-first into a more 90's post-hardcore, indie space rock, and shoegaze based sound. While still drawing inspiration from traditional sources such as Black Sabbath, Fu Manchu, Hawkwind, Monster Magnet, Kyuss, Iron Maiden and Thin Lizzy, the band reached back to embrace the 90's influences of their youth for the latest outing, citing bands such as Floor, Quicksand, Hum, Fugazi, Swervedriver, Failure, My Bloody Valentine, Girls Against Boys, Smashing Pumpkins and Torche as all being crucial in furthering their ambitious sound.

Palace In Thunderland is composed of four members whose unique contributions formulate the band's synergistic sound. Fronted by Andy Beresky (Black Pyramid) on guitar and vocals, he brings the same passion for writing earth-shattering riffs and haunting, memorable melodies, as well as his unmistakably massive tone and penchant for psychedelic experimentations. Monte Newman (HydroElectric) adds his expertise with exotic effects on second guitar, creating elaborate atmospheres and subtle textures while also handling the vocal harmonies. Adam Abrams (Blue Aside, Space Mushroom Fuzz) lays down the low end with his frenetic fretwork on the bass, and also plays the keyboards and synths. Matt Netto (Blue Aside) brings his signature complex, heavy drum sound, and also handles some lead and backing vocals.

The complete tracklist goes as follows:

1) The Owl In Daylight
2) Beyond The Stars
3) Awakened Dream
4) The Distant Shore
5) Troglodytes
6) Deus Ex Machina
7) Pink Quarter
8) Decadent Decay
9) Before The Dawn Descends
10) The Absolute And The Relative
11) Soul Storm
12) The Sun Faced Moon

Lyrically, the album focuses on themes of cosmic transcendence, higher consciousness, anarchy, freedom, and the various possible futures of human society and evolution.

Recording will begin Monday June 16th at Sonelab Studios in Easthampton Mass, with Justin Pizzoferrato (Witch, Dinosaur Jr, Black Pyramid) engineering the drums. Further tracking will take place at Reverse Feed Studios and the Thunderland Compound.

Monte Newman had the following to say about the album: "Finally…the Apostles are no longer silent. This album has been a long time coming. After years of separate musical adventures, we have taken our experiences and compiled them into this latest offering. Soon we will all bask in The Afterglow Of Unity. I for one am pleased with the reignited fires in the heart of Thunderland!"

"This is the best the band has ever sounded, and it's the most ambitious material we've ever written. This is how I'd imagined the band to sound when I started it all those years ago, and it just took us this long to get to that point. We're going to take our time and do this one right, for once. In the words of Winston Zeddemore, 'we've got the tools, we've got the power," said Andy Beresky when asked about the album.

A release date for the album has not yet been confirmed.

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 Post subject: Re: Palace In Thunderland Announce Details Of Their New Albu
PostPosted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 11:48 am 

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Hey y'all,

Just an update, the recording is going really well. The drums sound enormous, and we're incorporating a lot of atmosphere into the guitars. The production is coming out really unique in that regard. We're all extremely pleased with the progress.


We've been documenting some of the action on our Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/PalaceInThunderland

There's some cool pictures and very goofy videos from the sessions.

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 Post subject: Re: Palace In Thunderland Announce Details Of Their New Albu
PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:42 pm 

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Stardate 8.6.14,

The Apostles will once again congregate in the hidden Thunderland Temple for their latest series of sonic sun salutations...

Today we're hoping to finish up the basic guitar tracking. There are two songs left in that regard, and they're the two toughest and most intricate on the album.

After that, we're going to bring in even more special effects/pedals, keyboards, some 12 string, and Andy's electric jaw harp tracks.

We'll keep you updated on the progress, we're having a total blast!





Edit for latest update: The vocals for "In The Afterglow Of Unity" will be recorded in a haunted bathroom inside an abandoned secret Illuminati temple...

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 Post subject: Re: Palace In Thunderland Announce Details Of Their New Albu
PostPosted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 12:28 pm 

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Here's a look inside of our "Thunderland Compound". This is right before we started a recording session for the day.

Tracking is almost complete at this point. We'll be leaving the confines of the Thunderland Compound to do the vocals in an old barn at Park Hill Orchard in Easthampton MA next week. Hopefully we'll get a little clip of that process as well, and then eventually we'll tease some actual material. At this point, we're pretty much looking at the 2015 release, realistically...

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 Post subject: Re: Palace In Thunderland Announce Details Of Their New Albu
PostPosted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 9:10 am 

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Here's a preview of an actual track from the album. It's called "Pink Quarter", it's a short instrumental that bridges the first half and the second half of the album. We're going to prepare a "preview" video for Youtube that features a little bit of each song, so you get a little bit more of a taste of what we're going to offer. Hopefully we'll have that up next week...

For now, enjoy!

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 Post subject: Re: Palace In Thunderland Announce Details Of Their New Albu
PostPosted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 12:45 pm 
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^ I like what's going on in the beginning behind the guitar melody (just the right amount of echo), bass line and cymbal shimmer. I wasn't prepared for it to go into that level of heavy! I immediately put on my headphones and listened again *Thumbs up*!

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 Post subject: Re: Palace In Thunderland Announce Details Of Their New Albu
PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:20 pm 

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Thanks man, glad you dig it! There's another instrumental you may dig that goes from all echoed trippiness to Sabbath heaviness, and we did at least one pretty traditional "doom"/Sabbath worship track with a Maiden-esque bridge to boot.

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 Post subject: Re: Palace In Thunderland Announce Details Of Their New Albu
PostPosted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:12 am 

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So, the album is mixed, and it sounds phenomenal. This is the only album I've ever heard back and been really satisfied with. I have no liked a single other album that I've worked on, I've always been so dissatisfied. Not this time.

It's going to be mastered by Mark Miller, also at Sonelab, and we're tentatively setting the release date for 4/21. It will be available on CD and through our Bandcamp.

Details on the album artwork are forthcoming....

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 Post subject: Re: Palace In Thunderland Announce Details Of Their New Albu
PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:35 am 

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The cat is out of the bag.

W. Ralph Walters is handling the artwork for "In The Afterglow Of Unity."


The mastering is done, and pretty soon we'll officially debut a track entitled "Troglodytes."

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:44 am 

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Here it is, as promised. Enjoy!!

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 7:41 am 

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Here's a sneak peek of the cover art! Looks pretty rad if I do so myself.....


Also, we're going to debut another new track later today, which I'll post here!!

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:52 am 

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Here's the latest track, "Decadent Decay." Enjoy!!

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 Post subject: Re: Palace In Thunderland Announce Details Of Their New Albu
PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 11:56 am 

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Someone was kind enough to put this tune up on Youtube for us, it's one of the more Stonerrockin' tracks, if that's your kind of thing.

The entire album is now available to stream or purchase in MP3 form on Bandcamp: https://palaceinthunderland.bandcamp.com/


If you want to hold out to purchase the physical CD, we will definitely be able to take orders and ship by 4/21....

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 12:09 pm 

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Cool, looks like I figured out how to stream the whole thing on here. Enjoy!!

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