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Further Forward Russia: new material previewed online

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by Cody Jefferson

Adventure rockers, ¡Forward, Russia!, have released a preview of their forthcoming album online.

The band have placed a six-minute composition on the internet via YouTube, with the video showcasing a number of tracks from their second album, Life Processes, which is set for an early 2008 release.

The posting is to coincide with their first UK tour for sometime which calls in at the following venues:

October
23 Hull The Lamp
24 Leicester The Charlotte
25 Exeter The Cavern
26 Cardiff Barfly
27 Brighton Barfly
29 Sheffield Leadmill (Steel Stage)
30 Sunderland Independent
31 Dundee Reading Rooms

November
1 York Fibbers
2 Bradford St George's Hall

Support comes from I Was A Cub Scout.

Watch that video here:


Are you watching the same video?

Some of those sound amazing to me


Typically great production

by Matt Bayles there, but I think the vocals sound a bit too 'epic' and not really very much like ¡Forward, Russia! Plus I just don't really like the style of their new songs. I'm seeing them for about the billionth time at Fibbers and all I can say is I'm glad IWACS are supporting.


so,

if you've suddenly 'gone off' forward russia because of new material, why buy tickets in the hope of a good support band? why not just buy tickets to a band you would want to see?


I think it sounds pretty awesome.

I wasn't too sure about the direction of the new material after the gig in Leeds where they previewed quite a bit of it, but after hearing clips of the recorded stuff, I have every faith I'm not going to be let down.


Because I've come up to York to Uni

with my mate Joe and he loves them and seeing as we didn't know anyone else, I said I'd go so he didn't go by himself. I didn't realise you had to be a die hard fan of a band to be admitted to their gigs these days?


???

what are you even talking about?!
i think the new songs sound a lot more inventive and varied than the old ones. Don't be a Doctor was a complete departure from GMAW, without really being 'epic'. Also, the song that kicks in at 2.58ish is one of their heaviest so far. There are live bootlegs of that song ('A Shadow is a Shadow is a Shadow') and a few more from Truck at:http://www.last.fm/music/%C2%A1Forward%2C+Russia%21


in the shoutbox

:-)


Hmm

There's some heavy sounding stuff on there. I like it! Certainly a progression from GMAW, I'd forgotten how much I love these guys.


this sounds pretty good

especially the post rocky EITS type stuff and the big mastodon riffs. i'm glad they've gone with this direction rather than doing an album of 12 ballads or generic jerky indie songs.


I still can't get over being let down by their album

the demos were so raw, so brilliant. The album just sounded too slick. Also, the singer pisses me off on stage. He looks like an octopus made of jelly.


croooooooonnn!!!

croon, croon, croooooooon-croon!! pull my own shirt and CROOOOOOOONNNN!


The...

...New stuff I've heard sounds HUUUGE.


i saw

forward russia a lot in the last couple of weeks. the last song (could be called spannish triangles) is literally amazing