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Hungarian experimental progressive rock band Ghost Toast is set to release their fifth studio album “Shade Without Color” on March 3rd, 2022, via Inverse Records. The first single “Get Rid of” is released today and it can be listened below.

The band comments:
“"Get Rid Of" is some kind of a battle cry - who the enemy is, is up to you! We wanted this song to be a fast and heavy opener with a sad vibe that turns into a desire for freedom.
 

Today, legendary Belfast, Ireland based instrumental outfit And So I Watch You From Afar has shared “I Dive Pt1” & “II Dive Pt2”, and announced their ambitious upcoming multimedia album “Jettison”. The latest offering from the group will be available on February 18th, 2022, via Equal Vision Records in partnership with Velocity Records.

Ground breaking, genre defying instrumental trio, Animals As Leaders have announced their highly anticipated new album “Parrhesia” today. Their first new full length album since 2016’s critically acclaimed “The Madness of Many” will be released on March 25th, 2022, via Sumerian Records.

Highlighting the news of their first new album in 6 years is the release of brand new single and accompanying music video “The Problem of Other Minds”. Watch the vidoe below.

Deeper Graves – the solo project of Jeff Wilson of Chrome Waves, Contrition, and formerly of Nachtmystium, Wolvhammer, Abigail Williams, and more – will release its second album, “The Colossal Sleep” through Disorder Recordings in late January 2022.
 

Steve Vai and Dreamcatcher Events have announced Vai Academy 6.0 – “Finding Your Note” will be staged August 4-8, 2022 in Las Vegas, NV at the Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa. Featured guests at this year’s gathering include Nuno Bettencourt, Guthrie Govan, Larry Mitchell, Joe Robinson, Billy Sheehan, Yvette Young, plus special guest Tommy Emmanuel.

Lybica are a dynamic and instrumental three-piece force from South Florida that seamlessly blends flavorful guitar melody with powerful metallic crunch. Lybica take you on an epic musical journey of peaks and valleys where the possibilities are endless.
 
Today, the band has announced its signing to Metal Blade Records and has shared the virtual performance video for the song “Ferment”. Watch it below.
 

Chicago instrumental progressive quintet Outrun The Sunlight are ecstatic to announce their new album “A Vast Field of Silence”, to be released on November 12th, 2021.

The band have also released their beautiful first single from the record, “Awareness”. Watch the video for “Awareness” below.

Paris based instrumental stoner combo Qilin has signed a licensing deal with Wormholedeath for their album “Petrichor”, which is due for release on November 19th, 2021, worldwide.

Like this creature from the Asian mythology from which the band takes its name, Qilin plays a hybrid music alternating between powerful, raw parts and soaring interludes. FFO: Yawning Man, Domkraft, Stone From The Sky, Glowsun, Spaceslug, Kylesa, Sleep, Yob.

Statement about the album and the signing: