"Northumbria" to be featured in soundtrack of new film

Sections of the title track "Northumbria" will be featured in the soundtrack to the new H&H/Flyboy Films Production of "Lamp of Conscience." The production began lensing in Sharpsburg, GA (near where the TV series The Walked Dead is filmed) on July 26th and is directed by Edward Hopf and produced by Joseph M. Dwyer. As a cross promotion, the new Aethellis video of the track "Northumbria" (currently in production) will feature key shots from "Lamp of Conscience."

Reviews of Northumbira

The reviews of Northumbria are starting to trickle in. Here are links to a few:

Music Street Journal review

Zero Day Rock review

Again, many thanks to Nick Katona at Melodic Revolution Records. He's been a huge asset to the promotion of Northumbria and as a result the "back catalog effect" has created a renewed interest in the first album (Ron Fuchs of ProgNaut.com recommends the 2008 remastered version).

Northumbria availability

Melodic Revolution Records' new Aethellis release Northumbria is available as a physical CD at CD Baby and as a digital download from MRR. Other online stores to follow shortly.

The album can be heard as an online stream at Progstreaming.com as well.

Melodic Revolution Records

I'm pleased to announce that Aethellis has joined the Melodic Revolutions Records label. The label is undertaking promotion for a wide release of the new album Northumbria.

On behalf of the band I want to thank MRR's Nick Katona for his support and enthusiam for the new album!

Aethellis: Northumbria release

There was a minor setback for the masters of the new Aethellis album Northumbria where when converted to formats where compression is employed, the tracks displayed some increased vocal sibilance. Concerned with this issue, the "offending" tracks were re-mastered and sound great in any format now. Whew!

The tunes are being submitted for copyright and when I return from a vacation later in September we'll begin releasing tracks for streaming and downloading online followed by CDs being made available.

Unfortunately an event scheduled for today (September 17th) was cancelled at which the band was performing. We were really looking forward to it but that's how it goes sometimes. Fortunately another performance was picked up just prior to that cancellation, this one at the Harford Fall Fest, Bel Air MD on October 15th. There will be copies of both the original and new CDs available there during our performance and we'll be playing tracks from both albums.

Then time to hunker down and learn more new material and prepare for the CD release concert!

Havre de Grace gig

Just a quick note to say THANK YOU to all the folks who braved the rain and came out to the Havre de Grace Seafood Fest. We had a great time playing on Saturday (August 13th) and were genuinely touched by the standing ovation and calls for "one more song!" Just goes to show you when Charlie Daniels plays the night before it gets the crowd geared up!!!

"Saint Augustus" video

Finally got the "Saint Augustus" video online and created the new Aethellis video channel on YouTube. Next up will be the live video of "Djibouti" and soon a "Northumbria" video to coincide with the release of the new album. Whew!