Prog Nation Loses 2 Bands
2009-06-25 by VicariousIntent | 23 Replies | 1703 Views |
 This summer's Progressive Nation Tour may not be what fans had originally expected. Bands Pain of Salvation and Beardfish have both dropped off the tour due to issues with their label.
Taking their place are bands Bigelf and Scale The Summit, who will support headliners Zappa Plays Zappa and Dream Theater as the tour makes it's way across the U.S. The European leg of the tour will feature Dream Theater, Opeth, Bigelf and Unexpect.
The full article is posted below:
"It is with the utmost disappointment that I am forced to share the unfortunate news of both Pain Of Salvation and Beardfish having to pull out of this summer's Progressive Nation tour....
"Their label Inside Out just recently lost the financial funding for the tour as a result of their distributor SPV recently claiming bankruptcy...which effectively meant that both Pain Of Salvation and Beardfish lost the tour support that was essential to their ability to come to North America for Progressive Nation.
"All parties involved (myself, both bands, Inside Out, etc) are beyond devastated at this turn of events and are truly sorry to all of the fans that were looking forward to this lineup. We tried everything we could do to salvage the situation, but in the end it was not possible...
"Well as the album title says, every Black Cloud does indeed have a Silver Lining....so with this unfortunate news, I bring to you the good news of 2 incredible bands that will jumping on board Progressive Nation to join Dream Theater and Zappa Plays Zappa this summer: Bigelf and Scale The Summit.
"Los Angeles' Bigelf are my personal favorite new band to come along in many years...their latest CD 'Cheat The Gallows' is my favorite album of the year and I already had positioned them onto the European run of Progressive Nation in the Fall....with them now joining us on PN09 in North America as well, it looks like world domination is now not that far out of reach for them!
Pretty soon, everyone will hopefully be falling for their retro, psychedelic, progressive, hard rock, doom metal as hard as I have!
"Houston instrumental band Scale The Summit are a recent discovery for me and their top notch musicianship will be a perfect fit to this Progressive Nation lineup stylistically falling very nicely between the musicality of Dream Theater and Zappa Plays Zappa. They bring the instrumental elements of prog rock and fusion into today's contemporary hard rock/metal sounds and are one of the most talented group of young musicians I've seen assembled in many years.
"Once again, apologies to anybody disappointed in this unexpected and unavoidable lineup change...but the circumstances were beyond our control... In any event, PN09 will carry on and still deliver the most musical bang for its buck this summer throughout North America and we look forward to sharing the evening with you!"
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Scale The Summit is really getting around. I remember seeing them opening for Six Minute Century in a bar here shortly after they moved from California.
Anyway, tour doesn't sound so good.
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SCALE THE SUMMIT!!
only good band this year. and after such a good line-up last year
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Shit, me and my friend were really looking forward to seeing POS. Ah well.
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STS is like a breath of fresh air for me. not super techy yet very impressive and very tasteful. hell, i even bought their tab book.
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POS was the only band worth seeing on this tour.
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fucking pissed, me and my buddy got 4th row to one of the shows, had to spend a shit ton of money for those...pry wouldnt of paid that much if those 2 werent there
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"POS was the only band worth seeing on this tour."
stick to reviewing rap.
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i listened to POS while you were in diapers.
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Glad I didn't get tickets now, but I haven't heard anything from Scale the Summit or Bigelf.
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Fuck that shit. I was really looking forward to seeing Beardfish. FUCK that SHIT.
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i listened to POS while you were in diapers.
because that really has any relevance whatsoever.
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Why was my article for this one rejected?
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it's pretty relevant did u just discover sarcasm im proud
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lol
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I won't be going to this.
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zappa's avante garde, not prog. i dont consider technical speed crap metal as prog either, so this looks like a failure of a tour.
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do BTBAM play prog nation? if not they really should.
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yes, last years prog nation was a win set.
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Last year tour destroys this years.
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i listened to POS while you were in diapers.
how does it feel to know you just got baited by the most obvious troll dig in the history of everything. trying to sound intelligent like that is just a fail idk
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What a piss poor lineup compared to last year.
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Last year's lineup was amazing. Dream Theater was the worst band of the night I thought.
I saw this year's and thought meh, but discovered that Beardfish was quite good, as was Pain of Salvation. Hearing this news led to my loss of hope, as I despise Bigelf and Scale the Summit isn't anything that great.
What happened Prog Nation? Such a letdown. Glad I didn't buy my tickets >.>
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Scale The Summit is amazing. The end.
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