Photo Credit: Dave Cerminara
Progressive
instrumental duo ZOMBI have begun recording their sixth
full-length and first new album in over four years. The album will be
self-produced by the band and recorded at Machine Age Studios in
Pittsburgh, PA and Steve Moore Private Studio in Central NY State and will see
a release later this year via Relapse Records.
The
record, which will consist of nine new songs and clock in at over 60 minutes,
was heavily inspired by the band touring in 2013 with Italian prog legends Goblin.
Their first tour in over six years allowed the duo to play as a band again
instead of a collaborative studio project.
Steve
Moore commented on the new material:
"It's
a rock record - think of it as a follow up to Surface to Air. There
are no techno jams or symphonic prog fantasies. No solo track interludes. It's
dark and heavy. Live drums on every song and lots of bass guitar. We have
officially moved from "studio project" mode back into "live
band" mode."
A.E.
Paterra added:
"The
last time we sat down together in the same space, just the two of us, along
with drums, bass guitar, and a couple synths, was back in 2005. To be
able to do that again was great, and we crafted more than 90% of this album out
of pieces we composed together during sessions from the past year."
Additionally,
Relapse Records will be reissuing ZOMBI's earliest
recordings, The Zombi Anthology, this April. Long
out-of-print and previously made available by the band themselves (over 10
years ago) in an extremely limited, CD-only run, this is the first time that ZOMBI's
very first recordings have ever been available in stores. The Zombi
Anthology represents ZOMBI at the peak of their
horror-score obsession and will be released on CD/LP/Digital April 21st in
North America, April 20th in the UK/World and April 17th in
Germany/Benelux/Finland.
Pre-Orders
for The Zombi Anthology are available via this location while a trailer can be viewed here.
Source: Relapse
Records
