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Two former Porcupine Tree members are taking the long road back. Voyage 35 — the new project from Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin and longtime touring guitarist John Wesley — have announced a new single and a run of European and UK dates this September.

The band takes its name from Voyage 34, Porcupine Tree‘s 1992 debut EP — a deliberate nod to the era they’re stepping back into. Their focus is the early Delerium Records and Snapper Records material, roughly 1992 to 2000, a body of work built on extended improvisation, hazy psychedelia, and cosmic drift. Much of it has never been performed live or hasn’t been heard on a stage in over two decades.

The first release under the Voyage 35 banner arrives 04/03: an eight-minute reimagined cover of a track from On the Sunday of Life, Porcupine Tree‘s sprawling 1992 debut, complete with an accompanying video. An atmospheric, formative era piece, the recording leans into the space rock and bedroom psychedelia that defined the band’s earliest work.

Equally significant is what’s coming with them on tour: the original Fruit Salad Lightshow, Porcupine Tree‘s iconic visual experience that was central to the immersive atmosphere of those early shows. London audiences have been promised a few unspecified special guests at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire date.

The project’s origins are unusual. Edwin traces it to a chance reunion with former Porcupine Tree manager and Delerium Records founder Richard Allen and the band’s original booking agent Glenn Povey. “Richard and I met up after many years of no contact,” Edwin recalled. “And the idea of forming a band and touring was more of a joke about how it might happen amusingly. Having been asked many times over the years if performing the old repertoire was a possibility, I always responded that it was firmly locked in a drawer marked ‘No.’”

That position eventually shifted. “There was a certain energy, naivety, and spirit to the band’s early years that I am very fond of,” Edwin said, “and I know that many fans share that nostalgia from the large amount of correspondence I have received over the years. Although I am not usually one for the rear-view mirror, I am very much looking forward to performing that music again and bringing a new energy to it, in a live environment.”

There’s also a more pointed context here. Edwin was famously absent from Porcupine Tree‘s 2021 reunion — the band having reassembled without him after a decade on hiatus. He was their bassist from the very first show in 1993 at The Nag’s Head in High Wycombe through to the 2010 hiatus. “For several reasons, I’d long considered Porcupine Tree a thing of the past,” he said, “not least because it was made clear to me that there was ‘no role for me’ in the band.”

Wesley, who played live with Porcupine Tree from 2002 to 2010, didn’t need much convincing. “I realized deep inside that I really missed playing that music,” he said, “so an opportunity to go out with Colin and an amazing set of musicians to perform music I deeply cared about was not something I was going to miss.”

European tickets are on sale now. UK tickets go on sale at 10 AM this Friday.

Voyage 35 — 2026 Tour Dates:

• 09/04 — Revislate, ITA @ 2Days Prog + 1 Festival
• 09/08 — Aschaffenburg, GER @ Colos-Saal
• 09/10 — Utrecht, NED @ Tivoli Vredenburg
• 09/11 — Uden, NED @ De Pul
• 09/12 — Zoetermeer, NED @ De Boerderij
• 09/15 — Bristol, UK @ O2 Bristol Academy
• 09/16 — London, UK @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire
• 09/17 — Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz
• 09/18 — Newcastle, UK @ The Grove
• 09/19 — Glasgow, UK @ Classic Grand

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Stream EGREGORE’s It Echoes In The Wild HERE.

It Echoes In The Wild, the bizarre and unhinged second album by Vancouver-based black/death metal entity EGREGORE, will be released this Friday, through the formidable roster of 20 Buck Spin, who today unveils the entire album for advance streaming.

Here we find ourselves, among the Canadian miscreants EGREGORE – uniting members of Mitochondrion, Reversed, Ruinous Power, formerly of Auroch, and more, whereupon they return from whence the wind howls like a damned choir and the Earth knows no master, to chart a broader sonic wilderness via It Echoes In The Wild. And much as sea-rogues and freebooters sought fortune upon blackened waters, so too does EGREGORE venture musically into diabolic and ungoverned lands.

Presenting something more expansive, elemental, and untamed on It Echoes In The Wild, the early occult black death metal lunacy of EGREGORE embraces atmospheric breadth equally alongside primitive force to delve deep into not only geographic wilds, but the psychological, esoteric and spiritual hinterlands at the edges of complete madness. Dark invocations and secret tongues draw forth echoes from forest and fen, cave and cliff, tempting the temporally tethered to receive the curse, all the while driven by a primal, unknowable sardonic menace.

Though the voyage be perilous, to succumb to It Echoes In The Wild is to become ensconced in a lawless dominion of the soul in service of a higher call. Mirroring nature’s unbridled forces and the hidden echoes that dwell within, EGREGORE’s second album takes the band’s mystical insanity and magical perversion to the edge of the abyss and plunges forward.

It Echoes In The Wild was engineered and recorded by Mariessa McLeod, mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Blood Incantation, Dream Unending, Tomb Mold), and completed with cover art by Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos, illustration and layout by Dipayan Das, and logo by Karmazid. The result is an album prime for fans of Nocturnus, Morbid Angel, King Diamond, Samael, Superstition, Angelcorpse, Mortuary Drape, Necrophobic, Absu, and The Chasm.

From the EGREGORE cult: “There is no sight apart from the seen; no feeling beyond the felt; no independent capacity for knowledge outside of what is known.

“Self: a confluence of cause and condition. Consciousness: a triangulation of pre-requisite factors. When this is understood, there is no longer any boundary as to where you end and the infinite begins. Everything is connected. This is the word of the law, and it echoes in the wild.”

Sustain the malefic howl of EGREGORE’s It Echoes In The Wild early on YouTube RIGHT HERE, and view the videos for “Stair Into The Vortex” HERE and “Servants Of The Second Death” HERE.

20 Buck Spin will release It Echoes In The Wild on LP, CD, and digital platforms this Friday, March 20th. Preorders can be placed at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE.

Furthermore, effective immediately, EGREGORE is pleased to announce a partnership with Waste Management Bookings for all live engagements. Stand by for updates.

EGREGORE:
Shawn Haché aka Essentia Collapse – drums, vocals, acoustic guitars
Sebastian Montesi aka Catastrophe Saturna – lead guitars, acoustic guitars, vocals, synth
Phil Fiess aka Helios Thread – bass, vocals

Album guests:
Dylan Atkinson aka Exodus To Unukalhai – additional lead guitar
Cuillen aka Axis i Arcana – vocals
Lillian Liu aka Jaded Castigator of the Baleful Communion – lead synth
Brayden Turenne aka Oracular Phantasm – electronics, ambient interludes
Mashruk Huq aka Voice of the Dweller – spoken word on “Corsairs Of The Daath Gulf”

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Carnivore A.D. is stepping out from behind the legacy with their first original material. The New York hardcore and metal outfit — featuring bassist/vocalist Baron Misuraca (Sheer Terror, Darkside NYC), guitarist Chuck Lenihan (Crumbsuckers, Christian Death), and drummer Joe Cangelosi (Kreator, Massacre, Whiplash) — has shared “I Stand Alone”, the second single from their debut studio EP Transmutation, due 03/27 via Apostasy Records. A lyric video for the track is now streaming.

Formed as a tribute outfit built around the explosive catalogue of Carnivore and co-founded with the full endorsement of original drummer Louie Beateaux, Carnivore A.D. has spent years keeping Peter Steele‘s primal vision alive on stages from Hellfest to Maryland Deathfest. Transmutation marks the point where that mission shifts — not by erasing the past, but by building something new from it. The EP, also dedicated to the memory of Keith Alexander, represents the band’s first attempt at original songwriting: material that doesn’t try to replicate the Carnivore legacy so much as grow out of it.

Beateaux puts it plainly: “Think of Carnivore A.D. as a renowned dining establishment where its chef passed on years ago, but the recipes remain, and folks still want to dine there instead of cooking the food themselves. And Chef Pete wouldn’t mind because his friends are making it with love.”

Over the past years, Carnivore A.D. has appeared at established metal festivals (including Brutal Assault and Hellfest) as well as stages at events like Rock Hard Festival, Lisbon Tattoo Rock Fest, Ruhrpott Metal Meeting, and Maryland Deathfest, reinforcing its reputation through consistent live performances and international presence.

Transmutation was recorded and mixed at Soundlodge by Jörg Uken, with artwork by Simon Bossert. The five-track EP runs as follows:

1. Prologue
2. Transmutation
3. I Stand Alone
4. Social Decomposition
5. Mine Is the Hand

The band has a run of live dates lined up across the US and Europe through April, including a stop at Inferno Festival in Oslo on 04/02. Full dates below.

• 03/20 — Sanford, FL / West End Trading Co
• 03/21 — Tampa, FL / The Brass Mug
• 04/02 — Oslo, NO / Inferno Festival
• 04/03 — Gothenburg, SE / The Abyss
• 04/04 — Schwerin, DE / Bus Stop
• 04/05 — Berlin, DE / Cassiopeia
• 04/06 — Kassel, DE / Goldgrube
• 04/07 — Dortmund, DE / Junkyard
• 04/08 — Düsseldorf, DE / Pitcher
• 04/09 — Goes, NL / T Beest
• 04/10 — Drachten, NL / Iduna

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After a week of teasing the release on Instagram, Infected Rain have unveiled their new single “Stranger,” accompanied by a music video.

Frontwoman Lena Scissorhands shared the following about the track:

“‘Stranger’ came from that moment when you no longer fully recognize yourself. It’s about the inner fight with your identity, the roles you’ve held onto for too long, and the distance that grows between who you are and who you think you should be. In the end, it’s about becoming strangers to ourselves… and trying to find the way back.”

Watch the music video below.

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