Australia's conceptual prog rock/metal outfit, Arcane, continues to perform across their homeland on the launch circuit for their impending Known/Learned double-album release, set to hit the streets via Sensory Records this winter. Arcane has released another new single from their new opus, with the nearly 8 minute-long opening track to the Learned half of the album, "Hunter, Heart & Home".

In 2013, Arcane sanctioned Sam Vallen (Caligula's Horse) to produce their most massive album to date, a two-part conceptual masterpiece entitled Known/Learned, with 16 expansive tracks encompassing an immense 2 hours of music. The first movement, Known delivers a more traditionally-oriented progressive rock performance, and the second, Learned, takes a lighter, more acoustic/folk inspired path, the opuses coalescing one central storyline. The recordings were mastered by Troy Glessner at Spectre Mastering in Seattle, and the album's cover art provided by Chris Stevenson-Mangos.

A generous crowd funding campaign supported by passionate fans, organizations and fellow bands helped Arcane produce Known/Learned, yet as the album was seeing completion, the band crossed paths with New Jersey-based progressive label, The Laser's Edge, who took the album on for worldwide release and distribution upon its recent completion through its Sensory Records entity. A limited run of the album will be dispatched to the loyal funding crowd, while Sensory will release the album on a 2CD digipak and deluxe digital package worldwide, in North America January 20th and in Europe on February 13th.

Known/Learned tracklisting:

Known

“Promise [Part 2]”
“Unturning”
“Instinct”
“Womb (In Memoriam)”
“Selfsame”
“Holding Atropos”
“Keeping Stone: Sound Of Fire”
“Learned”

Learned

“Hunter, Heart & Home”
“Little Burden”
“Impatience And Slow Poison”
“Known”
“Nightingale’s Weave”
“Eyes For The Change”
“Keeping Stone: Water Awake”
“Promise [Part 1]”

Third track from the Known disc, “Instinct”:

The band's ongoing round of album launch shows tied in with the release of Known/Learned concludes this weekend, with the final gig taking place this Saturday, December 13th in Melbourne. Additional tour news for Arcane will follow shortly.