18 March 2025: Steven Wilson "The Overview"; Markus Reuter "Aurora Drift"; Nerthus "The Path of the Elder Ones"

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Steven Wilson releases his eighth studio album, The Overview, on Fiction Records on 14th March 2025. The two track, forty-two-minute​ album is his most audacious to date, inspired by the “overview effect” experienced by astronauts looking back at the Earth from space.

The Overview sees Wilson return to expansive, progressive music, a genre he helped redefine and repopularise with both his solo and Porcupine Tree releases. The two wildly ambitious tracks are each made up of distinctive musical sections that flow from one to the other, playing out as unique and continuous pieces. Wilson’s 21st-century progressive music updates the classic ‘prog’ musical palette to incorporate everything from glistening electronics to post-rock and beyond, which brings the genre right into the beating heart of the current musical landscape.

The album also features a set of lyrics by XTC’s Andy Partridge that help drive the story in “Objects Outlive Us”.

The Overview is instantly recognisable as Steven Wilson and will stand alone as an utterly unique release for 2025. Headphones and a wide-open mind are recommended.

TRACKLIST

1. OBJECTS OUTLIVE US (23.17)
● No Monkey’s Paw
● The Buddha Of The Modern Age
● Objects: Meanwhile
● The Cicerones
● Ark
● Cosmic Sons Of Toil
● No Ghost On The Moor
● Heat Death Of The Universe

2. THE OVERVIEW (18.27)
● Perspective
● A Beautiful Infinity I
● Borrowed Atoms
● A Beautiful Infinity II
● Infinity Measured In Moments
● Permanence

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Click here to see the videos for Volumes 1-6: shorturl.at/L0ddJ

This is Vol. 7, "Aurora Drift":

"Where is this place? This temple? This ancient choir? These memories, faces, beings? What is this magic? This spell? The cast is strong, hypnotic, and then it ends as mysteriously as it began..."
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"Stream for Consciousness" is a concept born from experimenting with various ways to create ethereal ambient soundscapes, targeting different moods and uses. Whether it be for meditation, relieving anxiety, music to sleep or study to, this project aims to create music to ease you into reaching a conscious state, through carefully crafted melodic pieces.

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released February 21, 2025

Composed and played by Markus Reuter
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Erik Emil Eskildsen
Produced by Markus Reuter and Erik Emil Eskildsen

Markus plays Touch Guitars® AU8

Special thanks to Lindsay Jones

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"The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." – The Call of Cthulhu.


Highly recommended for lovers of Lustmord, Schloss Tegal and early productions from Cold Meat Industry.

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released December 27, 2024

REVIEWS

Avant Music News
avantmusicnews.com/2024/12/22/amn-reviews-nerthus-the-path-of-the-elder-ones-2024-eighth-tower-records

Igloo Magazine
igloomag.com/reviews/nerthus-the-path-of-the-elder-ones-eighth-tower

Ver Sacrum
www.versacrum.com/vs/2025/01/nerthus-the-path-of-the-elder-ones-dei-nerthus.html

Luminous Dash
luminousdash.be/reviews/nerthus-the-path-of-the-older-ones-eight-tower

This Is Darkness
’m a huge fan of all things Lovecraftian, so I was thrilled when I discovered that the ever awesome Eighth Tower Records were releasing this dark ambient / post-industrial album from Nerthus. With eerie, otherworldly tracks full of dark menacing soundscapes and creepy field recordings, this is a wonderfully dark album that does an amazing job of capturing the essential essence of the Lovecraft mythos. Fantastic!



Published by Eighth Tower Records.
Music and Mastering by Nerthus.
Artwork by Nerthus.
Layout by Matteo Mariano.
Cat. Num. ETR054.
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10 January 2023: Fruupp; dEUS; The Great Old Ones

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From Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
Psychedelic Paul      5 stars 

With a bizarre name like FRUUPP, you might imagine this five-piece band are some obscure Krautrock outfit from deep in the heart of Germany, but no, they're some obscure Belfast-based outfit from deep in the heart of Northern Ireland. They have four albums to their credit with this album "Future Legends" (1972) being their first. Later albums were "Seven Secrets" (1974), "The Prince of Heaven's Eyes" (1974), and "Modern Masquerades" (1975). A fifth album was planned for 1976, but due to poor record sales and the emerging Punk/New Wave movement, Fruupp were consigned to the prog history books when they broke up at the end of the year. Progressive Rock has triumphed over the shortlived Punk-Rock era in the long run though, because Fruupp have gone on to become "Future Legends" in their time, with their marvellous brand of mellifluous melodic prog experiencing a well-deserved resurgence of interest on the Internet. The 2009 CD remaster of "Future Legends" includes the bonus track, "On a Clear Day", which classical buffs may recognise as being a proggy reworking of "Jupiter" from Gustav Holst's "Planets Suite"

"Future Legends" opens with the title track, a short classical piece of music which acts as a prelude to "Decision", a lively and rumbunctious number that gallups along nicely with a pounding rhythm and builds up to an impressively rousing finale. An awesome opening to the album. "As Day Breaks with Dawn" follows next, with a melodic classically-inspired opening, which breaks out into a powerful thrumming Genesis-like number with the singer sounding remarkably like Peter Gabriel. Yes, we're definitely in Genesis territory here, with a somewhat heavier sound, and very good it is too. Onwards now to Track 4 and "Graveyard Epistle", a song which begins as a melodic ballad before breaking out into some very proggy, heavy and intense riffing. In true prog fashion, there are constant changes of tempo, staccato breaks and a few key changes thrown in too, to keep the listener entertained and enthralled. We're halfway through the album now and this is sounding very good indeed!

Side Two opens with "Lord of the Incubus". It's a grand-sounding title and the music is impressively grand too, Again, it sounds like a song Genesis could have recorded in their classic prog years. There's a thumping rhythm section and the guitarist is really in his element here as he demonstrates his virtuosity with some masterly soloing. Track 6 "Olde Tyme Future" has a more sedate pace, with some beautifully melodic keyboard motifs. The cryptic lyrics are shrouded in mystery but with music this good, who cares about the lyrics anyway!? And now we come to the penultimate and longest song on the album, "Song for a Thought". It's a seven and a half minute long magnum opus which opens in fine rollicking style and then transposes into a laid-back mellow and melodic groove in the middle section. before the resounding and reverberant grand finale, which might just blow your socks off. It's melodic, it's dramatic, and it'll leave you feeling euphoric. The final song is a brief and gentle vocal reprise of the classical title track which opened the album. It's a perfect ending to a magical album full of proggy tales of mystery and imagination.

This is a very impressive debut album from this Northern Irish band that's likely to appeal to fans of the classic Peter Gabriel years of Genesis. It's hard to pick out a highlight of the album, because "Future Legends" is full to the brim with great songs. If you're looking for a band with the musical talent and melodic finesse of Genesis with a somewhat heavier edge, then you'll be in prog heaven with this superb album. This prog masterpiece is such a delight to listen to that you may be inspired to give Fruupp's following three albums a spin too. A must-have album for any discerning collector of classic British prog.

Psychedelic Paul | 5/5 | 2019-12-3

      

Keep You Close is the sixth studio album by Belgian rock band Deus. It was released in Belgium on 17 September 2011, in mainland Europe on 19 September and in the United Kingdom on 3 October. On its first day of release, the album was certified gold in Belgium for sales of 10,000 copies.[9] It was eventually certified platinum on 7 October 2011, denoting sales in excess of 20,000 copies                                                                                Keep You Close Review

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More cinematic, melodic, and mellow than their usual experimental indie pop output, Keep You Close is the sixth studio album from one of Belgium's biggest musical exports, dEUS. Compared to the likes of Elbow, Tindersticks, and Broadcast, the follow-up to 2008's Vantage Point features the single "Constant Now" and two tracks featuring guest vocals from former Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli ("Twice [We Survive]," "Dark Sets In"). 

 

Mythos Of Cthulhu

by The Great Old Ones

Cthulhu is the priest or leader of the Old Ones, a species that came to Earth from the stars before human life arose. The Old Ones went dormant, and their city slipped under Earth’s crust beneath the Pacific Ocean. They communicated with humans by telepathy, and, in hidden corners of the world, uncivilized people remembered and worshipped Cthulhu in rites described as loathsome. These groups had statues of Cthulhu that seemed to be made of materials not found on Earth and chanted the phrase “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn” (“In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming”). When conditions are right, the city will rise, and, with the help of the eternal Cthulhu cult, Cthulhu will awaken and again rule the world.


These Great Old Ones, Castro continued, were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. They had shape—for did not this star-fashioned image prove it? — but that shape was not made of matter. When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live. But although They no longer lived, They would never really die. They all lay in stone houses in Their great city of R’lyeh, preserved by the spells of mighty Cthulhu for a glorious resurrection when the stars and the earth might once more be ready for Them. But at that time some force from outside must serve to liberate Their bodies. The spells that preserved Them intact likewise prevented Them from making an initial move, and They could only lie awake in the dark and think whilst uncounted millions of years rolled by. They knew all that was occurring in the universe, but Their mode of speech was transmitted thought. Even now They talked in Their tombs. When, after infinities of chaos, the first men came, the Great Old Ones spoke to the sensitive among them by moulding their dreams; for only thus could Their language reach the fleshly minds of mammals.

H.P. Lovecraft: "The Call of Cthulhu" 

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released January 5, 2023

REVIEWS

Michael Housel
bizarrechats.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-mythos-of-cthulhu-great-old-ones.html

Music by Raffaele Pezzella (a.k.a. Sonologyst) 

FreeForm Radio thanks Raffaele for providing us with a copy of this excellent release.

Special thanks for the collaboration to Mario Lino Stancati (voice and electric guitar), Alexandros Magkos, a.k.a. Grim Machine (percussion, electronics, voice).

Mastered by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst)
Artwork by MrZarono
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10 May 2022: The Great Old Ones; Richard Bennett

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Yog-Sothoth

Yog-Sothoth is an unfathomably powerful deity and one of the most powerful of the Outer Gods, a race of ancient deities who wield great power, size and intelligence, equal and possibly even superior to Azathoth himself, and is a truly cosmic menace that is beyond mortal comprehension. Yog-Sothoth is the embodiment of all of time and space across an essentially infinite number of space-time continuums. For all intents and purpose, he is connected to the multiverse. He is the grandfather of Cthulhu and the grandson of Azathoth. Yog-Sothoth is an all-knowing, all-seeing, and (supposedly) all-powerful being. He was born from the Nameless Mist, one of the three offspring of Azathoth alongside the Darkness and Nyarlathotep.

"Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again."

H.P.Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror

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Thank you to Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst) for providing us with a copy of this release.

released April 29, 2022

REVIEWS

Avant Music News
avantmusicnews.com/2022/04/25/amn-reviews-the-great-old-ones-yog-sothoth-2022-eighth-tower-records

Warmth Highest
birdboyblizzard.music.blog/2022/04/23/yog-sothoth-by-the-great-old-ones/


The Great Old Ones is a project by Raffaele Pezzella (a.k.a. Sonologyst). Yog-Sothoth is the first of a series of soundscapes inspired by the Lovecraftian pantheon of deities.

Music by Raffaele Pezzella
4th track in collaboration with Kenneth Kovasin playing daxophone, cymbal, kantele, lyre, electronics.

Cdr limited edition of 100 numbered copies

Edited by Eighth Tower Records
Mastered by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst)
Artwork by MrZarono
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Richard Bennett East Grinstead, UK

Richard has played piano since he was 9 and done the exams up to grade 7. He has been writing music since his  teens. He tune s and repairs pianos as a profession and just enjoys writing music and recording it as a hobby. He has five albums available on Bandcamp.