Aethellis from Melodic Revolution Records was Online With Andrea to share their music and their journey. Hosted by Andrea R. Garrison. October 8th, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. The show is archived and can be heard below.

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Said keyboardist/vocalist Ellsworth Hall, "The one thing I noticed after revisiting the radio podcast some weeks later was how much I over-used the phrase 'you know'  during the interview!"

Ah well, we all have our catch-phrases. Andrea discussed the new album Northumbria with Ellsworth and guitarist/vocalist Mark Van Natta.

Aethellis: Northumbria

Ellsworth Hall - keyboards, lead and backing vocals, guitar, "digi-drums"
Mark Van Natta - guitars, lead vocals
Erik Marks - bass
with
Chris Marks - guitar (on "Sounds Good")
Mike Harrington - drums (on "Sounds Good")
Joe Dwyer - sax (on "Celui Qui Soit La Bosse")

Recorded and engineered by Ellsworth Hall at Ellstudio, Timonium MD

Aethellis: Fall 2012

After the Padonia Park gig on September 1st, the band will be on hiatus through October. Keyboardist Ellsworth Hall will be in California in September working on a new version of his Piano Concerto for a Christmas release (see http://themanorselby.com) and bassist Erik Marks will be on a tour which includes Kenya, Africa in October. The planned concert promoting the new album has been rescheduled for early Spring 2013 but interim gigs are in the works for November 2012 through February as warm-ups for the big concert which will be extensively videotaped for a DVD release. Intensive rehearsals are also planned for this period.

"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!