Metallic Taste of Blood
Colin Edwin's genre-defying and intense collaborative album with Eraldo Bernocchi, Balazs Pandi and Jamie Saft, release their eponymously titled new album next month.

Pre-orders are now being taken here


To hear a preview track, and for more information, read Colin's blog entry here

The second leg of Steven Wilson's spectacular Grace For Drowning tour starts this week in the USA, before moving on to Mexico, South America, Scandinavia, mainland Europe and finishing in London on the 15th May. Featuring an astounding 6 piece band including Marco Minnemann on drums, Nick Beggs on bass, Adam Holzman on keyboards, Theo Travis on sax/flute and Niko Tsonev on guitar, films and other visuals and a quadrophonic sound system, last year's tour was rated by many that saw it as the finest live event of the year. You can see a trailer which includes images and music from that tour here.

A full list of tour dates and ticket links can be found here.

Gavin & 05Ric will be making their first tour of the UK this June. Together with Stickmen (Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto). Dates are

June 3rd Manchester Academy
June 4th Birmingham Academy
June 5th Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach
June 6th Bristol Academy
June 7th London Islington Academy

ticket sales are here

Two editions of the Storm Corrosion album are now available to pre-order: a deluxe vinyl double LP, and a bundle which includes the vinyl LP and the album on CD and Blu-Ray (note that there will also be standalone CD and Blu-Ray editions available to order soon). The Blu-Ray contains stereo and 5.1 mixes of the album as well as additional demo and instrumental versions, all at 96K/24bit high resolution. The 2LP version comes in a heavy duty textured gatefold sleeve, with inner bags and a poster, and has been overseen by vinyl specialists ToneFloat.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/storm-corrosion-preorder-20120309

Colin Edwin has a new solo album, entitled "PVZ" which is available now through burning shed .

"PVZ" is a purely digital release in both FLAC and mp3 format, but there is also a limited edition USB key version, which comes in a presentation tin with the USB key containing the FLAC and mp3 files as well as printable artwork designed by Carl Glover.

See Colin's Blog page for the tracklisting and background information about the album.

There is now a microsite for the forthcoming No-Man live release "Love and Endings". This will include a DVD of the performance. Release date for this is 12th March, on CD/DVD and 2 LP vinyl. Love and Endings is a document of no-man's performance at the Leamington Spa Assembly on October 14th, 2011.

The second leg of SW's spectacular Grace for Drowning tour will start at the beginning of April and run through to mid May. Many shows have not been confirmed yet, but these are: 30th April - Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2nd May - 013, Tilburg, Netherlands, 4th May - Trianon, Paris, France, 6th May - Garage, Saarbrucken, Germany, 7th May - Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany, 9th May - Z7, Pratteln, Switzerland, 10th May - Alcatraz, Milan, Italy, 11th May - Orion, Rome, Italy, 13th May - FZW, Dortmund, Germany, 14th May - AB, Brussels, Belgium, 15th May - Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK (ticket link below). Note that London will be the only UK date, and this time it will be standing not seated. SW is planning to introduce some new music into the show for this run, and one of the dates will also be filmed for a Blu-Ray / DVD release. All the tickets links and the rest of the dates will be announced in the next few days. Note that the ticket links included above are valid, but tickets may not actually be on sale for another day or two, so keep trying.

Lasse Hoile has created a short tour spot for the current in progress Steven Wilson Grace For Drowning tour, here. The North American leg of the tour is about to start, so if you are near to any of the shows don't miss one of the most visually and musically spectacular shows of recent years!

Tour date details and ticket links for the tour can be found at the Grace for Drowning website.

There is now a Steven Wilson app for iPhone, and it's totally free. It includes the first official release of the track "Cut Ribbon". It's just for iPhone at the moment (although can also run on iPad), but there are plans to follow it with an Android version later on. Link here to get it.

Gavin will be appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman next Tuesday, August 23. He will be playing with the band and have a featured drum solo.