Either way, I hope you enjoy the music - a little body of work that's rich in music, soul and detail.When 'Out Of Myself' spills over to Germany via the American label Laserʼs Edge in 2004 and from then on circulates as a real insider tip in the prog scene, the album is already more than a year old. Perhaps you'll be coming to it for the first time, or perhaps you're a fan from back in the day who's CD was eaten by the dog. HOWEVER, this is the first time the album has had a digital release. and for a second time events within the industry had conspired to destroy our work and our ambitions. Without tour support, and without the likes of social media or kickstarter to help us move forward independently, we were done. The net result was that they paid lip service to the contract to avoid having to compensate us for not releasing the album, by putting the minimum number of copies into the stores (500 I believe). and V2 ran a million miles away to avoid association with what, actually, was something of a scandal. Literally one week before the release of the album, one of the label owners had a very serious run in with the police. They in turn did a deal with Virgin offshoot, V2, to fund the project - ultimately V2 would be their masters but they would hold on to their identity as an independent and we would have the funding we needed to get back on the road. During this time we were writing, and re-writing this album and getting increasingly frustrated not to be out on the frontline touring and getting our music out there.Įventually, we secured a deal with a small independent City of Angels who were friends of our based out of LA. Meanwhile, MCA, seeing this success starting to blossom, decided perhaps they would keep us under their thumb, but we were having none of it and spent a good while extricating ourself from their clutches.

Badly stung by the appalling treatment we'd received from MCA, we had re-grouped, worked hard to establish a little following in the US and had enjoyed a lot of success in licensing tracks from the Metropol album onto various movies (including the likes of The Matrix, Arlington Road, Charlie's Angels, The Jackyl, The Bone Collector and a whole heap more). The second and final Lunatic Calm was a *long* time in the making.

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