It’s a huge pleasure to announce that concept album ”Cursed Cruise” by Soniq Circus is out January 22 2025 on your favourite streaming platforms!!
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”Cursed Cruise” is the third full length album by the Swedish band, released 14 years after their last one. However, it has been preceeded by two EP:s that include much of the material, ”Chapter 1: The Game Begins” (2022) and ”Chapter 2: The Accident” (2023). The album sums up the chapters in remixed versions, adds four new songs and tells the whole Cursed Cruise story of a bunch of people meeting on a cruise where weird things start to happen after being invited to a game of cards by a mysterious being, leading to a storm, an accident and eventually the ship sinking with all onboard.
Release date January 22, 2025
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Since the debut album, Soniq Circus have found inspiration in bands like Rush, A.c.t, Saga, Yes, Spock’s Beard, City Boy, Vulkan, Dream Theater, King Crimson etc, but the EP:s have seen a slightly heavier and darker side emerge, leading to high ratings in reviews in Sweden Rock Magazine (8 of 10), dprp (7 of 10) and progarchives (mainly 4 and 5 of 5).
Of course the material on Cursed cruise includes some awesome epic, heavy prog songs with many twists and turns, odd time signatures, returning themes, solos and great musicianship, like the 16,5 minute ”Let the game begin”, but also ”The Quarrel”, ”The Accident”, ”Achilles down” and ”Cagnazzo”. To mix it up, there’s also two shorter and hard rocking pieces “The I of the Storm“ and ”Cold Water”, two calmer and reflective pieces closing the album, and two instrumental pieces where the band has a lot of musical fun, including the overture “Unbegun“ where riffs and melodies from all other songs appear in disguise.
Concerts
Don’t miss Soniq Circus performing material from Cursed cruise on stage when opening for BEARDFISH on their first Swedish tour in over a decade.
Feb 13 – Brygghuset, Stockholm
Feb 14 – Musikens hus, Göteborg
Feb 15 – Folkets hus och park, Skurup (30 min from Malmö, including cult band ATLAS)
Ticket links on www.progressivecircus.com/tickets
Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Unbegun (06:00)
2. Let the game begin (16:24)
3. Cold water (04:27)
4. The quarrel (06:48)
5. The I of the storm (03:55)
6. The accident (08:30)
7. Achilles down (07:54)
8. In mental rust (05:23)
9. Cagnazzo (06:00)
10. In the end (02:11)
11. The last casualty (04:24)
Total time (71:56)
Credits
All songs written by Christer Ugglin, Markus Nilsson, Marcus Enochsson, Marco Ledri and Alexander Abrahamsson, except Cold water, Achilles down and Cagnazzo by Christer Ugglin, Markus Nilsson, Marcus Enochsson, Marco Ledri, Alexander Abrahamsson and Martin Grönlund, and In the end by Marcus Enochsson and Marco Ledri.
Line-up / Musicians
Christer Ugglin / drums
Markus Nilsson / bass
Marcus Enochsson / guitars, vocals and trumpet
Marco Ledri / keyboards and additional guitars
Alexander Abrahamsson / lead vocals and cowbell