Anglo-Finnish
progressive metallers Wheel are pleased to present the ‘Rumination’ EP, a new
3-track collection the band recorded earlier this year. Listen & download
here: https://wheelband.lnk.to/Rumination-EP
The have already
released two tracks from the EP, and today you can listen to the third and
final track ‘Impervious’. The band comment: “'Impervious' is a song
about the remarkable resilience of some modern politicians who get caught in
scandal after scandal and lie after lie,yet continue to have a career and (at
least some) public approval.
A lot of bands shy
away from stating their political opinions these days as the rhetoric tends to
be pretty toxic, but we want to call out bullshit where we see it: politicians
should not be above the law but in many cases, it seems that they are. The
chorus of the song was a chance to vent some of my frustration about this.
Just to be clear -
this is not an attack on our audience and whatever political side they feel
like they belong to - it is a sincere desire to see the most influential and
powerful figures in our society held to the same laws and standards as
everybody else.
Although it doesn't
always feel like it, we need to remember that we are not against each other, we
are against them.”
The tracklisting is as
follows, and you can listen to each individual track below:
‘Blood Drinker’: https://youtu.be/bGNTUS43ZBA
‘Synchronise’: https://youtu.be/uNeRmyjtsQ4
‘Impervious’: https://youtu.be/-1Oo-WQB5i4
The band will join
Apocalyptica in Finland in next week, before hooking up with them again in
Europe in early 2023. The band add on the tour: “It has been years
since we have played so many shows in Finland and we are all excited to get
back out to cities we played back in 2019 like Oulu and Tampere, and to visit
places we have never played in outside of festivals, such as Seinajoki and
Kuopio.
Of course, we are all
stoked to finally be playing a show in our home town (Helsinki) too, as outside
of Tuska Festival earlier this year, we haven't played here since before Covid!
As always, it is a
pleasure to get to tour with our friends in Apocalyptica and to hear them play
a few more times before the end of the year. They are one hell of a band and
you should come and see them (and us) at your earliest
For the full list of
dates, head over to http://wheelband.net/
Following the bands
powerful debut album ‘Moving Backwards’ in 2019, they returned in 2021 with the
punchy ‘Resident Human’, a record that was packed with vivid vistas of
expanding and contracting sounds, whilst honing the bands intensity into
something compelling and energetic. The band capped off 2021 supporting Leprous
across Europe on their anniversary tour, with extensive live plans in place
throughout the rest of 2022 and into 2023, when they will release their third
studio album.
WHEEL are:
James Lascelles
(Vocals/Guitar)
Santeri Saksala (Drums)
Aki ‘Conan’ Virta (Bass)
Jussi Turunen (Lead
Guitar)
Find WHEEL online:
https://www.facebook.com/wheelband/
https://www.instagram.com/resident.wheel/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIzIcRCwJlp5rd5mYsNdEtw
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