Fearful Symmetry released their debut album, 'Louder Than Words', earlier this summer.

'Fearful Symmetry' is actually me and my cousin.

We've been prog fans for a very long time (among other genres) and decided we'd like to make our own album that reflected the broad range of prog music we've enjoyed over the years, as well as what's around now. See if you can pick out the influences!

I composed the music for what became the title track, and asked my cousin Jeremy to come up with some lyrics. He'd written about William Blake for his thesis and decided to raid his own ideas. It seemed to work well and so the idea of a 'concept' album was born (life and works of William Blake) - in keeping with recreating a 'classic prog' album.

We had a checklist of thing to include - animal sounds, bells, gongs, tempo/time signature and mood changes, you know the kind of thing. I think we ticked them all off. It's a bit 'genre-defying', I guess.

I play guitar, bass, and keyboards for nearly all of the album, but musician friends were keen to contribute - including a LSO cellist on one of the more pastoral songs! Jeremy played bass on one track, and came up with some of the song melodies, as well as sang on the opening track. Otherwise we used guest singers. We also saved up and got a friend who is a session drummer to add real drums, and paid for the album to be mixed by a mastering engineer.

We think it's really paid off and some internet radio programmes have played and favourably reviewed the album. To be clear, we're really only hoping for as many people as possible to at least hear the music.

TMB Radio:

“It is an excellent debut album, from a British band that has a tradition in progressive rock, and that made a modern album but based on the classic prog. ! EXCELLENT ALBUM! 😀”

Tracks have featured on progrock.com radio - and being played this evening (7pm UK time) - 23Aug2019.

Listen on https://fearfulsymmetry.bandcamp.com/releases

Website: https://fearfulsymmetry.rocks

Facebook: @fearfulsymmetryrocks

Distrokid is submitting our album to all the usual platforms: Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music, Google Play, Deezer etc etc.

A second album is planned for this summer, and the debut from 2019 received some pretty positive reviews, so I feel the suggestion should at least be given some attention before the thread gets locked through inactivity.

Here is one review which contains a fair bit of additional info about the project:  https://houseofprog.com/blog/2020/06/05/fearful-symmetry-louder-than-words/" rel="nofollow - https://houseofprog.com/blog/2020/06/05/fearful-symmetry-louder-than-words/ .

The debut album "Louder Than Words" was also featured in Julie Sanchez's Prog Rock Nation/Progkast Top 15 Prog albums of the year podcast back in January 2020.

Fearful Symmetry was added to progfeak by our good old friend Svetonio at the time when the debut album was released, so that is indeed a recommendation all by itself:  https://progfreak.com/Fearful-Symmetry-172957.html" rel="nofollow - https://progfreak.com/Fearful-Symmetry-172957.html ! 

Edit: I'm not sure about the sub genre suggestion of Symphonic/Neo though. I'd be tempted to pass this over to the Crossover team in the first instance.

As for sub-genre on the site, Crossover strikes me as the obvious choice, although it would fit well within Eclectic as well. It is basically an art/classic rock album, with very strong progressive foundations, and both of these sub-genres grew out of what we called art rock back in the day.

Suzi, you need to add a short bio (what is on your website is fine). The Bandcamp link is already here for the team to listen to, so that is good.

Your say is worth a great deal in these parts.

There is some very strong stuff here, and, as you say, fine musicianship. I particularly enjoy the vocalist they have worked with. Orc and Luvah is a quite lovely piece of work.

thanx for the reminder, I'm not sure what happened with the submission

while listening crossover seems to be an appropriate solution, I'd say

a detailed biography would be fine of course

have alerted the crossover team

Hi lazland

You proposed that I include a short bio, but I'm not clear on how best to do this. Is there a specific place for it, or do I reply to the topic thread?

Many thanks for your help

Suzi

I suppose this includes his paintings too. Two of his most famous ones have been used as a cover for albums by bands that are in the archives: "The Ghost of a Flea" for the album "Another Fine Tune You've Got me into" by Gilgamesh and "Nebukadnezar" for the album "Death Walks Behind You" by Atomic Rooster.

Hi Suzi

It only needs to be a short history of the project, i.e. how it started, personnel, recording process and releases, and any other information you feel would add to knowledge of the project, so maybe something about the William Blake inspiration?