US progressive metal band PARIUS have released their new album, 'Alchestronomy', through Willowtip Records. The record is out now on digipak CD, a limited longbox CD, gatefold vinyl and digital, and the label has posted the whole thing as a full-album stream.
The follow-up to 2022's 'The Signal Heard Throughout Space', 'Alchestronomy' is a single 36-minute suite that the band treat as a celebration of their 15-year career. It was recorded as a deliberate time capsule, without quantizing, pitch correction or other modern editing tricks.
The concept pits an alchemist against an astronomer, each convinced he holds the key to living forever. PARIUS call the album a kind of musical inkblot test, built to work both as one continuous prog epic and as seven separate, conventionally structured songs, and name DREAM THEATER's 'Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence' and THE MARS VOLTA's "Cassandra Gemini" as its ancestors.
The lineup is Louis Thierry on vocals, Ryan Rauch on guitars, Kenny Rentz on bass and Dan Silver on drums, with former HAKEN keyboardist Diego Tejeida guesting. The band produced the record themselves, Jamie King mixed and mastered it, Stephen Andrade painted the artwork, and Christophe Szpajdel drew the logo.
'Alchestronomy' tracklist:
- Alchemy
- Unbecoming Of A Gentleman
- Celestial Sea
- Chrysopoeia
- Equivalent Exchange
- Blind Eyed Starlight
- Astronomy
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