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THE CIRCLE OF WONDERS IS BACK
WITH A NEW FULL-LENGTH CONCEPT ALBUM
IV: TIMBER
October 21, 2024
(Burbank, CA) - Back for more, THE CIRCLE OF WONDERS has returned with a brand new, full-length concept album - IV: Timber - the project's most compositionally ambitious to date. Less than a year after the release of the last full-length LP, III: The Sparrow & The Architect, The Circle Of Wonders has taken it beyond what the project has done before by adding an increased orchestral element to the music, as well as weaving multiple recurring melodies throughout as the story unfolds. Clocking in at just under 88 minutes, IV: Timber is also the project's longest album to date, with three songs over 10 minutes in length.
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The story takes place in October of 1975, and tells of Benjamin "Timber" Timberton, a lumberjack and Vietnam War veteran, who is losing the toughest battle of his life - accepting the death of his best and oldest friend, Brett Godfrey. The only surviving member of his platoon, Timber has been back stateside for a few years after an honorable discharge due to injury in the attack that killed his team - Brett being one of those casualties. Facing survivor's guilt, shell shock, and depression, he feels he has very little left and has turned to alcohol to comfort his pain. Ashley, his wife, desperately wants the man she married to return to her, but she has had little luck getting through to him. One night, his thirst for inebriation leads him mysteriously out of his town of Grizzly Hollow and into the strange town of Burdale. There, at The Burdale Bar, he tells the barkeep his sorrowful story. Seated in a nearby booth, an old woman known to locals as The Witch overhears his story and makes him an offer which may be his last...
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"IV: Timber is a moving, excellently ​​composed album whose impeccable melodies do a phenomenal job of selling its themes of deep, uncompromising love in the face of trauma and despair." - The Progressive Subway​​​​​​​​​​​​
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The track listing for IV: Timber is:
1. Timber [Intro]
2. Inciting Incident I: Song Of Sorrow
3. The Key
4. Hollow
5. A House On Hallowed Ground
6. This Melody Means Death
7. Visions Of The Dead
8. A Lover's Pursuit I: Carry On
9. A Lover's Pursuit II: Inciting Incident II: In The Company Of Trees
10. A Lover's Pursuit III: The Witch & The Widow
11. A Lover's Pursuit IV: Death Do Us Part (Never Once)
12. Isolation
13. Sickness
14. Franklin Street
15. My Dear (Fall Of The Redwood)
1:23
5:57
5:59
1:25
10:03
1:49
16:09
4:57
4:48
5:23
4:35
4:06
3:53
3:59
12:18
1 hr 27 min
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ALL HAIL ARRIVES WITH NEW SINGLE
FOLLOW THE LEADER
FULL-LENGTH ALBUM RELEASE PLANNED
June 17, 2024
(Burbank, CA) - ALL HAIL has returned after a 9 year hiatus, and they've brought with them a new single - Follow The Leader - from their upcoming album Songs Of Shipwreck. This song, and the subsequent album, was written over 10 years ago with a release originally planned in 2014. Unfortunately, those plans were never realized... until now. Released as a tribute to their fallen friend/brother/bandmate Bronson Gross, Follow The Leader is a high energy track featuring syncopated drums, technical guitar & bass passages, and soaring vocals. The remaining members are keen on paying homage to the fun they had as a band all those years ago by releasing the full album by the end of 2025.
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THE CIRCLE OF WONDERS
MAKES A KILLER RETURN WITH
III: The Sparrow & The Architect
December 25, 2023
(Burbank, CA) - THE CIRCLE OF WONDERS has released it's third full-length album, III: The Sparrow & The Architect. The LP tells the story of a man investigating the murder of his best and only friend, a hobo named Itchy Foot. His murderer, the notorious serial killer The Architect, has returned to Haven Hill, New Mexico after a 5 year hiatus from killing. Our protagonist, Iggy "The Sparrow" Scott, does everything he can to unearth the truth behind the killer's identity once and for all. As it turns out, the lives of these two title characters are more closely connected than The Sparrow could have ever imagined.
The track listing for III: The Sparrow & The Architect is:
1. Gentle Giant (intro)
2. A Killer Return!!
3. Slaughterhouse
4. Memory Of Mother
5. The Elsewhere Hotel
6. Man Misunderstood
7. The Detective Tapes I - [interlude]
8. A Massacre At Patterson Park
9. I Call Shotgun
10. Liar
11. The Autopsy Of Itchy Foot
12. Like A Dog
13. On And On (...and on and on)
14. The Detective Tapes II - [interlude]
15. Pinned To The Coat Of A Deadman
16. Framed
17. The Detective Tapes III - [interlude]
18. Potter's Field
19. Apartment C3
20. The Sparrow And The Architect
2:01
3:32
4:39
3:07
6:23
2:53
1:13
5:23
4:39
5:23
6:56
4:12
3:28
1:22
7:35
4:07
1:20
2:59
4:19
6:11
1 hr 21 min
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