RIVERSIDE - New Album Due This Summer
May 1, 2009, 15 years ago
The new studio album, Anno Domini High Definition, from Warsaw, Poland-based prog-metallers RIVERSIDE will be released on June 22nd (Europe) and July 14th (North America) via InsideOut Music.
Anno Domini High Definition, Riverside’s fourth album, is no concept album in the classic sense, although it features a central theme and a haunting message. “It’s an album about people who know they need to speed up or they’ll get left behind“, Duda summarizes the tracks, adding: “About people who sometimes, despite themselves, will stop at nothing to achieve their aims. It’s an album about chaos, constant race, uncertainty, stress, and the struggle to survive.”
Experts have called Riverside a stylistic mix of TOOL, PORCUPINE TREE and DREAM THEATER, but Duda reckons that other influences are more dominant on Anno Domini High Definition: “We wanted to reflect the energy of the early 70s and combine it with modern sounds. Now I think there is more of a RUSH, LED ZEPPELIN and DEEP PURPLE sound. But at the end of the day, this record ultimately sounds like Riverside.”
Available as regular edition and special edition digipack with bonus DVD Live in Amsterdam.
