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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: MinistroRaven on February 03, 2021, 02:40:20 PM
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Finnish Prog Metal band Wheel have announced their new album ‘Resident Human’. The follow-up their 2019 album ‘Moving Backwards’ will be released on March 26th, 2021.
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Tracklisting:
1.Dissipating (11:52)
2.Movement (4:24)
3.Ascend (4:23)
4.Hyperion (12:09)
5.Fugue (4:32)
6.Resident Human (10:32)
7.Old Earth (2:17)
Pre-order ‘Resident Human’ here:
https://Wheel.lnk.to/ResidentHuman
Watch the stunning video for the album’s first single “Movement” here:
https://youtu.be/lz4OJ8xKRLE
Listen to the track "Hyperion" here:
https://wheel.lnk.to/Hyperion
The Helsinki-based Wheel were formed in 2015 when singer James Lascelles moved to Finland and, through a fluke appearance on a Finnish TV show, met the core of what would become the early stages of the band. The members’ love of polyrhythms, different grooves, abstract time signatures and bands that see things differently would create the unique sound that appeared on their first EP in April 2015. A follow EP ‘The Path’ in 2017 would show further cement the group as one to look out for.
With their first headline tour booked in for February 2020, and the promise of a US tour waiting for them in April, it was around then the instrumental bare bones of ‘Resident Human’ were coming together. Initially to be squeezed into a 10-week recording period, their plans changed once COVID-19 hit the world hard; the band had to roll with the ever-changing punches.
Pushing back their allotted studio time, as a three-piece of vocalist and guitarist James Lascelles, bassist Aki Virta, and drummer Santeri Saksala - after guitarist JC departed amicably in Spring (with Jussi Turunen later joining the ranks) – Wheel hunkered down to get the album together.
From the desperate content harvest of copy/paste culture ("Ascend") to the polarized rhetoric surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement in America ("Movement"), 'Resident Human' is Wheel vocalizing the ashes they’ve witnessed falling throughout 2020 - putting a voice to our fallible nature.
“We joked at the start of the year that it's going to be the year of progressive music concept albums about COVID,” James laughs. “And we’ve kind of done that…but it's more about the time COVID has allowed us to explore ourselves rather than the pandemic itself.”
WHEEL online:
http://www.wheelband.net/
https://www.facebook.com/wheelband
https://twitter.com/Wheel_band
https://www.instagram.com/wheel.band/
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Moving Backwards was the better Tool album released in 2019 for sure. Also the logical follow up to Karnivool's Asymmetry. ;)
Eagerly looking forward to this one. I'm very interested to see where they take their sound from here. This will certainly satiate my Karnivool jones for a good while.
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Moving Backwards was the better Tool album released in 2019 for sure. Also the logical follow up to Karnivool's Asymmetry. ;)
Eagerly looking forward to this one. I'm very interested to see where they take their sound from here. This will certainly satiate my Karnivool jones for a good while.
I don't think it was better than Fear Inoculum, however it was a good album.
Having said that, I am looking forward to this. :metal
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Very good band with a pathetic thread. Hopefully this wakes it up a little. They announced a new album for May 3rd.
https://bravewords.com/news/wheel-to-release-charismatic-leaders-album-in-may-empire-music-video-posted
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So, the third Wheel, eh?
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So, the third Wheel, eh?
:icy:
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Enough for a tricycle at least!
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They are becoming one of my favorite newer bands, so I'm definitely looking forward to this. The mix on the latest music video seemed weaker than the previous two albums though, so I'm slightly worried.
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I had never heard of Wheel when I saw them open for Vola last fall, but they really made a good impression in a live setting. I'm looking forward to their upcoming US tour :metal
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Excellent band! I have high expectations for the new one.
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New fan here, thanks to Elite sending them to me in my last roulette!
Looking forward to the new album.
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The upcoming album is available for review
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Maving Backwards and Resident Human were my new jam last year, killer albums. The two new singles are promising, looking forward to the new album. :tup
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Album review:
https://lotsofmuzik.com/wheel-charismatic-leaders-album-review-by-jorge-pozo/
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Just home a bit ago from the kickoff show of their US tour. It was cool to see them headline the same venue where they opened for Vola back in the fall, and they brought the same intensity to tonight's show :metal
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The album is well written but mastered way too loud. Kills it.