Inside Out Music to release Threshold “best of” in November

Friday, 07 September 2007

Inside Out Music to release Threshold "best of" in November

Eight studio albums, two live cuts and several exclusive fan club releases, plus tours alongside renowned acts such as Dream Theater, Psychotic Waltz, Enchant, Pain Of Salvation and DeadSoul Tribe: Threshold have long left their mark on the international rock music scene.

Naturally, The Ravages Of Time includes important compositions and classics by the band, among them the lavish 'Sanity's End', which effortlessly takes the 10-minute hurdle and proves that Threshold always allow their albums enough space to breathe. "You can't judge our songs with a stopwatch," guitarist Karl Groom explained some years ago, accounting for the fact that expansive arrangements are part of his band's concept, as numbers such as 'Falling Away', 'The Art Of Reason', 'A Tension Of Souls', 'Innocent', 'Fragmentation', and the haunting 'Oceanbound' with its memorable line "Let the sky become an ocean pull me in above my head" prove. Then there are previously unreleased radio edits of 'Slipstream' and 'Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams' from their current album release, Dead Reckoning, which arrived at the stores in spring 2007, plus rare radio versions of the classics, 'Pressure' and 'Exposed', which confirm that Threshold's numbers lose none of their fascination even in this condensed format.

The Ravages Of Time sees a development come full circle which started towards the end of the Eighties. Nick Midson and Karl Groom formed the band, presenting their first permanent line-up consisting of drummer Tony Grinham, bassist Jon Jeary, keyboardist Richard West and vocalist Damian Wilson in 1991. Two years later, a small British label put out their debut album, Wounded Land, which earned unanimously positive reactions in Europe and Japan. Frontman Wilson and skinsman Tony Grinham subsequently left the band.

Threshold's second offering, Psychedelicatessen, was recorded with their successors, Glynn Morgan (vocals) and Nick Harradence (drums), followed by the live mini-album, Livedelica, in autumn 1995. Morgan left the fold the following summer to form Mindfeed. Mark Heaney was enlisted as the new drummer, and Damian Wilson returned as the new/old vocalist on the third studio recording, Extinct Instinct, voted Album of the Month by Rock Hard magazine in March 1997. One month later Threshold embarked on a tour of Europe, which ended with another split with Wilson.

In summer 1998, a line-up took shape which was to last almost ten years, featuring former Sargant Fury vocalist Andrew 'Mac' McDermott at the helm. McDermott demonstrated his qualities on Clone (1998), recording with Threshold four more brilliant albums in Hypothetical (2001), Critical Mass (2002), Subsurface (2004) and Dead Reckoning (2007), plus the live cut Critical Energy (2004). He left the group during the summer 2007 tour and was replaced by none other than Damian Wilson.

TRACKLISTING:

CD One: The Latter Years

1. Slipstream (radio edit)
2. Light And Space (edit)
3. Mission Profile
4. Falling Away
5. The Ravages Of Time
6. Phenomenon
7. Pressure (radio edit)
8. Fragmentation
9. Oceanbound
10. The Art Of Reason
11. Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams (radio edit)

(Total 71:29)

CD Two: The Former Years

1. The Latent Gene
2. A Tension Of Souls
3. Eat The Unicorn
4. Consume To Live
5. Innocent
6. Exposed (radio edit)
7. Sanity's End
8. The Whispering
9. Voyager II

(Total 70:06)