Having just played a first post-studio live-show as part of the Metal Hammer Festival / Prog Edition in Kattowice, Poland together with Dream Theater this past weekend, polish prog masters Riverside are pleased to announce the first details for their much anticipated upcoming studio album.
Entitled "Love, Fear and the Time Machine", the band's sixth studio longplay album will be released via InsideOutMusic on September 4th, 2015, feature cover artwork by longtime design-partner Travis Smith / Seempieces (Katatonia, Opeth, Nevermore, etc.) and contain the following track listing:
Riverside ' "Love, Fear and the Time Machine":
1. Lost (Why Should I Be Frightened By a Hat?)
2. Under the Pillow
3. #Addicted
4. Caterpillar and the Barbed Wire
5. Saturate Me
6. Afloat
7. Discard Your Fear
8. Towards the Blue Horizon
9. Time Travellers
10. Found (The Unexpected Flaw of Searching)
RIVERSIDE are additionally working on a musical bonus package entitled "Day Session", the brighter companion of the "Night Session" presented on the band's previous album "Shrine Of New Generation Slaves".
RIVERSIDE's Mariusz Duda checked in with the following comment about "Love, Fear and the Time Machine":
"On the new album I wanted to combine the 70s and the 80s. The 80s were a decade of musical growing up for me. On the new album we don't sound as retro and 70s as before, we moved forward, we sort of demolished the previous foundations and build new ones. Despite the huge dose of melancholy and nostalgia, there is a new space, the songs are arranged with more flow and at the same time they have never been so concise and to the point before. The lyrics on "Love, Fear and the Time Machine" talk about a transformation. About making an important, perhaps life changing, decision everyone has to make at some point in their lives. What happens to us when we have to make it? On the one hand we're excited by the change, we feel free, liberated, and on the other we fear the unknown, we are afraid of what might happen to us. We go back in time and we go forward in time in our heads. And all that happens when we have to decide something important. The first of the songs on the album is called 'Lost', the last one, 'Found'. If we sometimes get lost in life, it is to go through something and be found again on the other side, to be reborn as someone better and more valuable. I would like this album to be one of those that one day simply becomes your best friend."
Here is an overview of the upcoming Riverside tour-dates, on which the band will already showcase some of the new material as well:
Riverside Summer Festivals (*) And "An Evening With" Headline Shows:
July 11 - Spain, Barcelona, Be Prog! My Friend festival * Be Prog! My Friend Fest
July 14 - Italy, Milano, Lo-Fi
July 15 - Italy, Bologna, Alchemica club
July 18 - Germany, St Goarshausen, Night of the Prog festival * Night of the Prog Festival X
July 21 - Germany, Reichenbach, Bergkeller
July 23 - Germany, Worpswede, Music Hall
July 24 - The Netherlands, Zoetermeer, De Boerderij
July 26 - United Kingdom, Maidstone, Ramblin' Manfair festival * Ramblin'Man Fair
Aug 29 - Poland, Olsztyn, Amfiteatr im. Czesława Niemena
Sept 5 - Brazil, Sao Paulo, Via Marquês / Overload Music Festival *
Sept 7 - Chile, Santiago, Teatro Cariola
Sept 10 - Mexico, Mexico City, Lunario del Auditorio Nacional
Riverside North America Tour W/The Sixxis:
Sep 12 - Atlanta, GA - ProgPower USA Center stage, https://www.progpowerusa.com
Sep 13 - Richmond, VA - The Canal club
Sep 15 - Philadelphia, PA - Bull Shooters Saloon
Sep 16 - New Brunswick, NJ - NJ Proghouse at The Crossroads Theatre
Sep 17 - Pittsburgh, PA - Hard Rock Cafe
Sep 19 - Montreal, QC - Theatre La Tulipe
Sep 20 - Quebec City, QC - L'Imperial
Sep 22 - Toronto, ON - Mod Club
Sep 23 - Detroit, MI - Token Lounge
Sep 24 - Chicago, IL - Reggies
More dates to be confirmed soon!
Riverside European Tour W/The Sixxis & Lion Shepherd:
Oct 15 Germany, Dresden, Tante Ju
Oct 16 Germany, Oberhausen, Turbinen Halle 2
Oct 17 The Netherlands, Zwolle, Hedon
Oct 18 The Netherlands, Tilburg, 013
Oct 20 UK, London, Islington Assembly Hall
Oct 21 UK, Bristol, Marble Factory
Oct 22 UK, Manchester, The Ritz
Oct 23 UK, Glasgow, O2 ABC2
Oct 24 UK, Northampton, The Roadmenders
Oct 26 UK, Southampton, The 1865
Oct 27 France, Paris, Divan Du Monde
Oct 30 Portugal, Lisbon, Paradise Garage
Oct 31 Spain, Madrid, Joy Eslava
Nov 1 Spain, Barcelona, Sala Apolo / Be Prog! The Madness Day festival
Nov 2 France, Lyon, Marche Gare
Nov 4 Switzerland, Pratteln, Z7
Nov 5 Germany, München, Strom
Nov 6 Germany, Karlsruhe, Substage
Nov 7 Germany, Berlin, C-Club
Nov 8 Poland, Krakow, Rotunda
Nov 10 Poland, Gdansk, B90
Nov 11 Poland, Warsaw, Stodola
