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| Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - Threshold to release "Best of" album | Threshold will release their first ever "Best Of" collection in November, featuring over 140 minutes of music from all their studio albums plus some previously unreleased radio edits. The album will be released by Threshold's previous label Inside Out Music. The tracklisting for the compilation, entitled "The Ravages Of Time (The Best of Threshold)", was selected by the band in conjunction with the label. "The decision to include the unreleased single edits was because we know there are a lot of fans who are frustrated when there are edits made but not available on CD", commented Richard West. "Of course there wasn't room for everything but between us we thought it was a good overall list".
The artwork was designed by Thomas Ewerhard, who was responsible for many of Threshold's previous album covers including the iconic Hypothetical and Subsurface. The new cover was originally created for the band's previous album when it had the working title of "Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams". The 24 page booklet will include a new biography written by Trevor Raggatt.
The following is taken from the Inside Out press release:
Eight studio albums, two live cuts and several exclusive fan club releases, plus tours alongside renowned acts such as Dream Theater, Psychotic Waltz, Enchant, Pain Of Salvation and Dead Soul Tribe: Threshold have long left their mark on the international rock music scene.
Naturally, The Ravages Of Time includes important compositions and classics by the band, among them the lavish "Sanity"s End", which effortlessly takes the 10-minute hurdle and proves that Threshold always allow their albums enough space to breathe. "You can"t judge our songs with a stopwatch", guitarist Karl Groom explained some years ago, accounting for the fact that expansive arrangements are part of his band"s concept, as numbers such as "Falling Away", "The Art Of Reason", "A Tension Of Souls", "Innocent", "Fragmentation", and the haunting "Oceanbound" with its memorable line "Let the sky become an ocean, pull me in above my head" prove. Then there are previously unreleased radio edits of "Slipstream" and "Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams" from their current album release, Dead Reckoning, which arrived at the stores in spring 2007, plus rare radio versions of the classics, "Pressure" and "Exposed", which confirm that Threshold"s numbers lose none of their fascination even in this condensed format.
CD One: The Latter Years
1. Slipstream (radio edit)
2. Light And Space
3. Mission Profile
4. Falling Away
5. The Ravages Of Time
6. Phenomenon
7. Pressure (radio edit)
8. Fragmentation
9. Oceanbound
10. The Art Of Reason
11. Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams (radio edit)
CD Two: The Former Years
1. The Latent Gene
2. A Tension Of Souls
3. Eat The Unicorn
4. Consume To Live
5. Innocent
6. Exposed (radio edit)
7. Sanity's End
8. The Whispering
9. Voyager II
"The Ravages Of Time (The Best of Threshold)" will be released in the US on 20 November and Europe on 19 November (Germany, Austria and Switzerland on 16 November). |
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