North Sea Echoes – featuring progressive metal pioneers singer Ray Alder and guitarist Jim Matheos of Fates Warning – are back with a new studio album, “How To Cast A Shadow“, set for release on July 24th on Metal Blade Records!
With this year’s “How To Cast A Shadow“, the band’s identity is further explored and expanded. Matheos explains, “this record is a bit heavier, with several more songs featuring real drums, played by Dennis Leeflang. It wasn’t necessarily intentional or planned, just the way things shaped up and how they emerged this time.”
Alder concurs. “[A track like] ‘I’ll Leave A Light On’ is much heavier than anything on Really Good Terrible Things. It has a darker, melancholic feel that fits well on this album. I loosely based the lyrics on a character from my favorite sci-fi series. I won’t say which, but they do use the quote ‘out there in the black.'”
Watch “Enjoy the View“ here: https://youtu.be/sbXCX_P617k?si=uRMR3eyToualW9AZ
Tracklist:
- A Time of Innocence and Purpose
- Enjoy the View
- Good Enough
- I’ll Leave a Light On
- All Fall Away
- Revenge
- Villains or Saints
- What Is and What Was
- All That Comes After
- How to Cast a Shadow
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