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Latest Cloudkicker News
Below is our complete Cloudkicker news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Cloudkicker Premiere New Single “Follow Through”
Even more fresh material from Cloudkicker has just arrived, as project mastermind Ben Sharp has released a new track titled “Follow Through.”
This latest offering closely follows the recently shared “Things You Can’t Change,” with Sharp offering the following statement on the new song: More...
Cloudkicker Premiere New Single
Fresh music from Cloudkicker surfaced online, streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below. Ben Sharp—the creative force behind the progressive metal project—revealed that the track came together quickly, having been written and recorded over this past weekend.
In a social media post shared overnight, Sharp stated: More...
Cloudkicker Premiere New Full-Album Stream
Cloudkicker premiere the full-album stream of the band's brand new album "Unending", which was released August 15th via Bandcamp.
Check out now "Unending" in its entirety below.
Cloudkicker Debut New Song
Cloudkicker debut a new track titled “Not To Scale Or Painted” which you can stream below. The song was written, recorded and mixed on January 25th.
Comments the band’s mastermind Ben Sharp: More...
Cloudkicker Streaming New Live Album
Cloudkicker is set to release "Live With Intronaut" on Tuesday November 24th via Century Media Records. The CD version will be available as a digipack and is streaming now via the Bandcamp player below.
Bad news for fans on the vinyl front though: the LP has been delayed until January 27th. The track listing is as follows:
1. Subsume Part 1
2. Subsume Part 2
3. We are going to invert.../Here, wait a minute, damn it!
4. We're goin' in, we're going down.
5. Seriosity
6. You and yours
7. Dysphoria
8. Subsume Part 8
9. Push it way up! More...
Cloudkicker Posts Live Video
Enigmatic prog outfit Cloudkicker recently recorded a live album with Century Media's own Intronaut.
The album will be released on November 24th and includes the song "Push It Way Up!" which Cloudkicker has created a video for from footage of the tour the two bands did together earlier this year.
Watch it below, thanks to the folks at Metal Injection. The new live album's track listing is:
1. Subsume Part 1
2. Subsume Part 2
3. We are going to invert.../Here, wait a minute, damn it!
4. We're goin' in, we're going down.
5. Seriosity
6. You and yours
7. Dysphoria
8. Subsume Part 8
9. Push it way up! More...
Cloudkicker Announces Live Release
In early 2014 it was announced that enigmatic prog outfit Cloudkicker would tour North America with Intronaut. Message boards went crazy over this announcement, as Cloudkicker, aka Ben Sharp, had vowed the band would never play live.
The two bands piled into a van and every night played to an overzealous fanbase who knew they were experiencing a perhaps once in a lifetime opportunity.
For those unfortunate ones who missed a show, the band stopped off at Texas recording studio, The Fathom Tree, and played the set start to finish live and captured it all on tape. Century Media is proud to release "Cloudkicker - Live With Intronaut" from this recording session. The track listing is:
1. Subsume Part 1
2. Subsume Part 2
3. We are going to invert.../Here, wait a minute, damn it!
4. We're goin' in, we're going down.
5. Seriosity
6. You and yours
7. Dysphoria
8. Subsume Part 8
9. Push it way up!
The album will be in stores on November 24th. The CD version is available as a digipack and the vinyl comes in 4 colors limited to 1500 copies worldwide:
500 Black vinyl
450 Piss Yellow vinyl (US retail exclusive color)
350 Royal Blue with Sliver & Black Splatter
200 Coke Bottle Clear and Bone split
Pre-orders are available over at this location and footage from the band's Cleveland show can be seen below. More...
TesseracT Announces North American Tour
U.K. progressive rock band TesseracT will once again be returning to North America. It will be the band's third tour supporting the critically acclaimed "Altered State" album (see review here).
Former touring partners, Intronaut, who will be fresh off a tour of their own with Between The Buried and Me and Deafheaven will be direct support. To make these events even more special, instrumentalists, DIY prog artist, Cloudkicker, will be touring for the first time ever with the members of Intronaut as his backing band.
Comments TesseracT:
"Last year we spent a few short weeks with a bunch of west coast musicians called Intronaut, stalwarts of the scene who have been honing their skills for years into an awesome blend of progressive jazz tinged metal. For as long as we can remember there has been a home studio producer of genre defying music called Cloudkicker. He has until now been restricted to the studio. So, it's with great pleasure that we get to rejoin our brothers in Intronaut, and be a part of Cloudkicker's first ever tour! This will be seriously fun."
Intronaut comments:
"When we first met Ben a few years back and discovered the Cloudkicker album "Beacons", we unanimously fell in love with it and have since bugged him to let us be his band. Now it is finally happening. Intronaut is absolutely over the moon about this once in a lifetime opportunity for Cloudkicker fans to hear his stuff live. Sweetening the deal even further is the fact that we get to do the tour with our favorite British chaps in TesseracT. This tour is going to kick ass!"
Cloudkicker, aka, Ben Sharp elaborates:
"This just happened to be a time when Intronaut was free and, incredibly, I was able to get the entire month of April off from work. We have been in touch since 2010 and they had told me a few times that we could make this happen, but it wasn't until last fall that I decided to give it an honest effort. Having the professionalism and technical proficiency of a band like Intronaut was the piece of the puzzle that finally encouraged me to pursue this since they are making it so easy for me. I know that when we show up for the first night of the tour everything will be locked in and we can just focus on having a good time." More...