Blueneck detail album No.5

By Scott Munro
( Prog )
published

UK band to release King Nine in November

UK post/prog veterans Blueneck have announced details of their fifth album.

King Nine launches on November 7 via Denovali Records and is the follow-up to 2012’s Epilogue.

To mark the announcement, the Bristol-based band have released a stream of opening track Counting Out. Hear it below.

The album comes bundled with a 16-page lyric and photo booklet featuring artwork by artist and filmmaker Lasse Hoile, who has previously worked with Porcupine Tree, Anathema and Opeth. He spend six weeks in the US taking shots for the project, which will be available on CD, vinyl and digital formats.

King Nine tracklist

  1. Counting Out 2. Sirens 3. King Nine 4. Man Of Lies 5. Broken Fingers 6. Father, Sister 7. Spiderlegs 8. Mutatis 9. Anything Other Than Breathing
Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.