To celebrate 35th anniversary of “The Long Good Friday” movie, Silva Screen Records is remastering and re-releasing the long deleted original score, to include selected dialogs. A stereo version of “The Long Good Friday Soundtrack” will be released by the label on March 25, 2016 (which also happens to be Good Friday). The score is written by multi-instrumentalist Francis Monkman, best known for being member of progressive rock bands Curved Air and Sky. Monkman’s electronic synth score features seminal members of Sky – Herbie Flowers (guitar), Tristan Fry (percussion) and Kevin Peek (guitar), as well as Ronnie Aspery and Stan Sulzmann on saxes and helps to ground the film in the early ‘80s. One of the truly great British gangster thrillers, “The Long Good Friday” rated as the 21st best British film of the 20th century in a BFI 1999 survey. The film, a 1981 British gangster piece, starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, was first shown in the UK at the London Film Festival in November 1980. Viewed today, 35 years after its release, the film remains like all classic films completely timeless. With its two outstanding leads, compelling direction by John Mackenzie and filmed against a background of London about to undergo massive change, this is a cinematic milestone. “Monkman’s score tightens the tension to the screaming point” (AllMusic).

Metal Blade Records
(USA) / February 28, 2016

“The Art of Loss” is the debut album by the US prog-metal band Redemption. Tracklisting: 1. The Art of Loss, 2. Slouching towards Bethlehem, 3. Damaged, 4. Hope Dies Last, 5. That Golden Light, 6. Thirty Silver, 7. The Center of the Fire, 8. Love Reign o'er Me, 9. At Day's End. Line-up: Ray Alder (Fates Warning) – vocals; Nick Van Dyk – guitars; keyboards; Chris Quirarte – drums; Sean Andrews – bass; Bernie Versailles – guitars. Release date: February 26, 2016. Format: CD, LP, digital. Label: Metal Blade Records.

Fantaizic Music
(France) / February 28, 2016

20 years after their first release, Elvaron returns with their 5th album titled “Ghost of a Blood Tie” – to be released on April 11, 2016. Elvaron is a modern progressive metal band evolving in a fantastic literary universe. Elvaron gathers many musical influences of prog-masters like Rush, Symphony X or Dream Theater while retaining a more aggressive US thrash-legends’ power like Overkill or Testament. The new album sets to music the texts of the French author of Fantasy, namely Melanie Fazi (Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire & Prix Masterton), written specifically for this album. Track listing: 1. The Journey Within 7:38, 2. Silent Windows 9:03, 3. A Price to Pay 5:39, 4. From a Brother to a Shadow 6:57, 5. No Town of Mine 9:01, 6. Run Away in Fright 6:54, 7. Distant Shores 3:27, 8. The Man Who Wears My Face 15:15. Formats: CD, digital. Label: Fantaizic Music.

InsideOut Music
(USA) / February 28, 2016

The British prog-metal band Headspace has a new release, “All That You Fear Is Gone”, out on February 26. Tracklist: 1. Road to Supremacy (4:58), 2. Your Life Will Change (6:41), 3. Polluted Alcohol (6:10), 4. Kill You with Kindness (8:17), 5. The Element (1:50), 6. The Science within Us (13:14), 7. Semaphore (5:39), 8. The Death Bell (1:49), 9. The Day You Return (3:24), 10. All That You Fear Is Gone (4:53), 11. Borders and Days (5:23), 12. Secular Souls (10:35). Line-up: Adam Wakeman (Black Sabbath) – keyboards; Damian Wilson (Threshold) – vocals; Lee Pomeroy (Steve Hackett) – bass; Pete Rinaldi – guitars; Adam Falkner – drums. Formats: CD, LP, digital. Label: InsideOut Music.

Kscope Music
(UK) / February 28, 2016

Kscope Music will release the brand new studio album “Lighthouse” from the Russian progressive duo iamthemorning on April 1. “Lighthouse”, the follow up to the band's 2014 album “Belighted”, will be released on CD, LP (with MP3 download code) and digitally. Formed in 2010 in St Petersburg, Russia, iamthemorning features pianist Gleb Kolyadin and the charismatic vocals of Marjana Semkina. The band self-released its debut album in 2012 before signing to Kscope Music and releasing “Belighted”, its first record for the label in September 2014. In 2015 the duo toured Europe with labels mates, the art-rock outfit, Gazpacho. As with “Belighted”, the engineering and mixing on “Lighthouse” is handled by Marcel van Limbeek (Tori Amos) and self-produced by Gleb and Marjana. The album also features guest musicians Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson) on drums and Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree) on bass. “Lighthouse” is a rich and eclectic album with echoes of classical music, the Canterbury scene, northern folk, jazz and electronic sounds. Featuring a story of the progression of mental illness, the album takes the listener through the stages with the story's central character, her attempts to fight it, and temporal remission leading to a final breakdown. Lyrically, the works and lives of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath inspire the album. Recorded across London, Moscow and St. Petersburg, the core instrument of the band, the grand piano, was recorded in Mosfilm Studios in Moscow, one of the largest and oldest studios in Russia. Founded in 1920, Mosfilm is renowned for recording orchestras for soundtracks for the most famous Soviet-era films, including works by Tarkovsky and Eisenstein. The album artwork for “Lighthouse” was created by watercolor artist Constantine Nagishkin whom the band has previously collaborated with before.