British rock band PORCUPINE TREEnominated for the Grammy Awards, has announced «Closure/Continuation.Live«, a new live album that documents their triumphant return to the stage in 2022.
«Closure/Continuation.Live» will come through Music For Nations/Megaforce Records on Friday, December 8 in a wide range of formats, including 2CD/2Blu-Ray Deluxe Version (with a 60-page book in a slipcase), vinyl box set (with 4 x 12″ limited heavyweight clear vinyl), and Blu-Ray/DVD (with the complete live show).
Both Blu-Rays include Dolby Atmos surround sound, 5.1 audio, and 24-bit high-resolution audio. Pre-orders are now available. 500 signed 8″ x 8″ prints will be randomly assigned to ensure all pre-orders have an equal chance of receiving one.
Recorded on November 7, 2022 at the Ziggo Dome of Amsterdam, with capacity for 17,000 people, «Closure/Continuation.Live» shows a PORCUPINE TREE – Steve Wilson (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Richard Barbieri (keyboards, synthesizers), Gavin Harrison (drums) – at the peak of their powers, playing a superlative set of enthusiastically received songs, including the epic “Harridan«, which premieres today along with an official live video that can be seen below.
«Closing/Continuation. live» -which has Wilson, Barberi and Harrison and musicians on tour Randy McStine (guitars) and Nate Navarro (bass) – places the listener/viewer right in the heart of the stage as psychotropic visuals explode alongside songs from 2022’s acclaimed eleventh studio album (and first new LP in over twelve years), “Closure/Continuation«, as well as classic songs from his rich canon such as «Trains«, «Fear of a Blank Planet” and “Anesthetize«.
PORCUPINE TREEone of the most avant-garde and challenging rock bands of any era, was founded in 1987 by the celebrated musician and producer Steve Wilson as an outlet for the experimental recordings he was making outside of his acclaimed post-rock duo, No-Man. With the incorporation of the keyboardist Richard Barbieri and the drummer Gavin Harrison, PORCUPINE TREE They soon became a proper band, releasing ten studio albums between 1992 and 2009. With each new release, PORCUPINE TREE exploring new musical ideas, their expansive music moved from pastoral psychedelic rock and ambient electronic soundscapes to experimental pop and propulsive metal. Later releases such as «Fear of a Blank Planet» (2007), nominated for the Grammy Awards, and «The Incident» (2009), the band’s best-selling album to date, which reached the top 25 in both the United States and the United Kingdom, allowed PORCUPINE TREE effortlessly merging different genres to create its own groundbreaking musical universe.
As relentlessly creative on stage as they are in the studio, PORCUPINE TREE They have proven to be innovative live artists known for their sonic innovation and inventive visual productions. In October 2010, the band entered a period of hiatus after a spectacular concert at the Royal Albert Hall from London, their biggest live show to date.
Recorded quietly and sporadically over the last decade and completed during a period when touring was reduced in 2020/21, «Closure/Continuation» marked the long-awaited return of PORCUPINE TREE and the most collaborative album of their praised career. A stunning and timely comeback from one of rock’s most innovative and influential bands, the album was met with ecstatic praise and chart success around the world, reaching #2 on the Official UK Album Chart, #1 in Germany, and Top 10 in all of Europe. PORCUPINE TREE celebrated «Closure/Continuation» with an extensive and ambitious world tour, their first since October 2010, in which they performed before more than 150,000 rapt fans in sold-out stadiums on four continents.
Booking “Closure/Continuation.Live» here.
Tracklistings:
CD/Blu-Ray box: 2 CDs (full live show), 2 Blu-Ray discs. Disc 1 includes the complete show and bonus material; Disc 2 includes Dolby Atmos surround sound, 5.1 surround sound, and 24-bit high-resolution audio.
“Blackest Eyes”
“Harridan”
«Of the New Day»
“Rats Return”
«Even Less»
«Drown With Me»
“Dignity”
«The Sound Of Muzak»
«Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled»
“Chimera’s Wreck”
“Fear of a Blank Planet”
«Buying New Soul»
“Walk The Plank”
“Sentimental”
“Herd Culling”
«Anesthetize»
“I Drive The Hearse”
«Sleep Together»
«Collapse the Light Into Earth»
“Halo”
«Trains»
Blu-Ray/ DVD: 1x Blu-ray disc with the full live show + Audio with Dolby Atmos surround sound, 5.1 Audio and 24-bit Hi-Res Audio (Excluding bonus features), 1x DVD of the full live show.
“Blackest Eyes”
“Harridan”
«Of the New Day»
“Rats Return”
«Even Less»
«Drown With Me»
“Dignity”
«The Sound Of Muzak»
«Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled»
“Chimera’s Wreck”
“Fear of a Blank Planet”
«Buying New Soul»
“Walk The Plank”
“Sentimental”
“Herd Culling”
«Anesthetize»
“I Drive The Hearse”
«Sleep Together»
«Collapse the Light Into Earth»
“Halo”
«Trains»
4×12” Vinyl:
Side A
“Blackest Eyes”
“Harridan”
«Of The New Day»
Side B
“Rats Return”
«Even Less»
«Drown With Me»
Side C
“Dignity”
«Sound Of Muzak»
«Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled»
Side D
“Chimera’s Wreck”
“Fear of a Blank Planet”
Side E
«Buying New Soul»
“Walk The Plank”
“Sentimental”
Side F
«Anesthetize»
Side G
“Herd Culling”
“I Drive the Hearse”
«Sleep Together»
Side H
«Collapse the Light Into Earth»
“Halo”
«Trains»
(Photo – Carl Glover)
