Ah yea, I read that the other day and was definitely happy! I'm a little more happy to know that Between The Buried and Me, TesseracT, Porcupine Tree, and Mastodon are all writing/recording/recorded new albums!

Just read this new blog on Porcupine Tree's myspace:

15 Dec 08 Monday


PT new album update

Writing for the next PT studio record is well underway, with the band recently spending 2 weeks secluded in the English countryside working on new tracks. Recording of these pieces and a new 35 minute SW song cycle is due to start in February, and tour plans are being put in place from September onwards following release of the new album. A London show is already announced for 9th October at Hammersmith Apollo, and there will be many more dates confirmed over the coming weeks, so please check the tour dates page for updates. You can also join the PT ticketing club to ensure that wherever possible you will be offered the best tickets for the shows (plus you get a free live CD). For information on how to join and details, click here.

Hell yeah. I can't wait - they haven't toured America in so long, I was beginning to worry they weren't going to come back New tour + new CD, hooray!

That's like their 4th or 5th release since their on Roadrunner?

Oh I don't think so. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the Tree was only picked up by Roadrunner in about 2005 or thereabouts. I could be wrong though. KScope/Snapper, Delerium, Roadrunner, I can't keep them all straight; they've been with a lot of labels.

NEW PILLOW

And tacos. Who doesn't like tacos?

Communists

The grades I got this semester.

And fucking Italian food. Glorious.

Oh I don't think so. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the Tree was only picked up by Roadrunner in about 2005 or thereabouts. I could be wrong though. KScope/Snapper, Delerium, Roadrunner, I can't keep them all straight; they've been with a lot of labels.

Deadwing, Fear of a Dead Planet, Nil Recurring, We Lost The Skyline, now this?

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I think I'm gonna do a list. Need some energy... Aah yesss, coffee... And maybe just maybe some Ziltoid... Aah yess... Here we go.

Things and people that are just plain awesome and make life great:

Coffee
Moomin lemonade
BBQ-chicken pan pizza
Almost all food related to christmas
Coffee breaks at work
Only two days left of this contract and I'm free for a month
Playing guitar. Especially acoustic
John Lennon and the Beatles (Gonna try me some Paul McCartney later)
Realising that there was great music here before I was even born
Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Hicks
George Carlin
Devin
Anathema
This song Marinate by a swedish rap group Looptroop
Hidria Spacefolk. A finnish astrobeat (WTF?!?) band. Trance and India.
Hanging alone at home before going to work. About an hour still left
Hanging with friends when there's no outsiders. I feel like I can think much more clearly for some reason
"Philosophic" conversations
Plain stupid conversations
The moment when you say something clever
Internet porn
Some other things on the internet
Showering
Sleeping late
Nhl09 on xbox
The Simpsons
The dog. Cute little fella she is.
Kirk Lazarus as a black guy.
The Godfather. Just recently saw it. Gotta watch the remaining two films
Great music coming in 2009. Porcupine Tree, Devin, Anathema, Dredg, Pure Reason Revolution and others
This hoodie I'm wearing.

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The Godfather. Just recently saw it. Gotta watch the remaining two films

the 2nd is good, i suggest you dont watch the 3rd

Oh I don't think so. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the Tree was only picked up by Roadrunner in about 2005 or thereabouts. I could be wrong though. KScope/Snapper, Delerium, Roadrunner, I can't keep them all straight; they've been with a lot of labels.

Deadwing, Fear of a Dead Planet, Nil Recurring, We Lost The Skyline, now this?

I think We Lost the Skyline was released independently...and if I knew that show was happening I would have been there. PT played a show here and announced they were doing the live acoustic show the next day, if I knew this days ahead of time I would have been there(the whole being 2 hours away from home and finding something out like that dont make for a good time)

Oh I don't think so. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the Tree was only picked up by Roadrunner in about 2005 or thereabouts. I could be wrong though. KScope/Snapper, Delerium, Roadrunner, I can't keep them all straight; they've been with a lot of labels.

Deadwing, Fear of a Dead Planet, Nil Recurring, We Lost The Skyline, now this?

I think We Lost the Skyline was released independently...and if I knew that show was happening I would have been there. PT played a show here and announced they were doing the live acoustic show the next day, if I knew this days ahead of time I would have been there(the whole being 2 hours away from home and finding something out like that dont make for a good time)

I forgot to mention that they recorded 2 shows for a DVD release. And personally I think Deadwing was pre-RR. Still a lot of releases in a couple years time!

And a new one next year. Steven Wilson is a music releasing machine. He put out all those albums last year and the year before and such, Insurgentes this year and a new PT album next year...

Pig butchering, when everything goes smoothly.

Had to work this morning which was a bad start, but now the roasting joints are in freezer and fridge, bacons and hams are in cures,sausage and salami meats and fats are cubed and awaiting mincing in the morning, heads, tails trotters and "variety meats" have been softened and ground up for brawn and hurky, bones and bits all roasted and simmering in stockpots. Greats slabs of skin and fat to be rendered down and turned into scratchings.

Awesome result in the circumstances. Go me. Also chimney man repaired chimney so now we have heat as well as pork.

Awesome day.

And a new one next year. Steven Wilson is a music releasing machine. He put out all those albums last year and the year before and such, Insurgentes this year and a new PT album next year...

In an effort to prove Biert wrong, I just looked through mah CD's ( ) - apparently Fear of a Blank Planet was released under Atlantic? I swore it was Roadrunner... really though, I can't keep these things straight.

As you said Alucard, SW is a machine - kudos to him for being do driven and motivated. I just hope he doesn't burn himself out News of a new PT album and hopefully another tour just makes me so happy. I'm grinning like an idiot!!!

I forgot to mention that they recorded 2 shows for a DVD release. And personally I think Deadwing was pre-RR. Still a lot of releases in a couple years time!

Yeah, I just hope he can keep it up. I saw in an youtube video that he said he wanted to get married this year. Then have children next year (like you can plan those things?) so if that happens, I'm afraid things might slow down a bit. But for now, dude is still going strong at 40 (doesn't look 40 does he? )

He looks like a girl, that's what he looks like. And he sings like one too.

He looks like a girl, that's what he looks like. And he sings like one too.

But they like that kind of thing in Britain!

Hell, 40 and going strong? The singer of Meshuggah is over 40 and still growling his fucking head off! Dude's a beast.