Life of Chuck

The return of Shadow Of Intent with their highly anticipated fourth studio album “Elegy” will happen on the 14th January 2022. Written and recorded at guitar player and producer Chris Wiseman’s studio in Beacon, New York and featuring guest vocals from Phil Bozeman of Whitechapel and Chuck Billy of Testament, it also sees them bringing back keyboard virtuoso Francesco Ferrini (Fleshgod Apocalypse) who has contributed additional arrangements to give a full cinematic experience to each song as he did on their hugely successful “Melancholy“. As if that wasn’t enough, the band’s new drummer Bryce Butler (The Faceless, Abigail Williams) teamed up with engineers Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland at Atrium Audio (Rivers of Nihil, Lorna Shore, August Burns Red) to record live drums. Christian Donaldson also returns for mixing and mastering as well as artist by Pär Olofsson for album artwork.

Brian Eno & Karl Hyde - High Life (2014) {Opal WARPCD255}
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Electronic / Synth Pop / Electro-Acoustic / Alternative

High Life, the second collaboration between Brian Eno and Underworld's Karl Hyde, began immediately after the completion of Someday World. Its release follows a mere two months later. While some traits of the former are present here – a heavy reliance on African-sourced rhythms, and hypnotically repetitive keyboard and bassline – it is a very different companion. While the pair relied on more formal "song forms" on Someday World, High Life is looser. These six tracks place more value on jamming. The centerpiece is Hyde's guitar. It's front and center throughout, with myriad rhythm tracks close behind. A two-chord reinvention of Chuck Berry's signature riff commences album-opener "Return" before becoming subsumed in sonic treatments and Edge-like sounds.