Chest Rockwell: Laugh and the World Laughs with You

A Neo-Prog concept album about the Trojan War, this 5 song EP will be followed by an EP in the Spring which finishes the story.  It was digitally released November 25 ($3 at chestrockwell.bandcamp.com) with the CD release to follow December 30th ($5 online and at shows).

The album is recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Jon Craig with art by Matt Simone.

Players include: Josh Hines (vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, electric sitar), Nick Rouse (drums, percussion, piano), Nick Stewart (bass, keyboard), Seth Wilson (electric guitar, acoustic guitar) and Jon Craig (keyboard, trombone).

Chest Rockwell‘s brand of Prog has been compared to Rush, King Crimson and Pink Floyd.  According to Josh Hines, the music is comprised of “A lot of mixed meter time signatures, key changes, symphonic elements, dynamics, odd rhythms, etc.  Other than that prog stuff it’s got some metal, some post-rock soundtrack sounding stuff, some thrash, some math rock, etc.  It’s fairly technical stuff which is why we get thrown in progressive rock a lot.” Check it out at www.youtube.com/therealchestrockwell.

Chest Rockwell’s 2009 album Total Victory was finalist in the 2010 Italian Prog Awards and made 2 Best of 2009 lists, finishing as high as #8 on one of them.  Laugh and the World Laughs with You has also garnered praise with www.progarchives.com calling it “a modern heavy prog album, interspersed with passages that, with careful thought and nurturing, can move this band into commercially fruitful territory.  This is, at the end of the day, very impressive, modern, heavier progressive rock, with a hint of pomposity, and I say this as a compliment.”

Look for the release show with Technology Vs Horse at Tidballs.