Ghost Of The Machine share first music from upcoming album Empires Must Fall

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By Jerry Ewing
( Prog )
published 2 January 2025

UK prog sextet Ghost Of The Machine will release second album Empires Must Fall in March

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UK prog rockers Ghost Of The Machine have shared the first new music from their upcoming album Empires Must Fall, releasing a new lyric video for the melodic new singleThe One.

Last month the band announced they would release their second album on March 7 through progrock.com's Essentials label.

Singer Charlie Bramald told Prog the new album would “scratch that ‘prog’ itch", featuring “denser and darker arrangements that strike a careful balance between shorter, more accessible songs and those epic-length pieces that we’re known for."

Empires Must Fall has again been produced by Bob Cooper and mastered by Grant Berry with striking cover art courtesy of Claudia Caranfa.

"Our first record concluded with the tyrannical Puppet King being vanquished by his final victim... she slew him with a pair of scissors," Bramald continues. "So, we wondered what the consequences of that violent but liberating final act would be. We started with a simple question which has only complex answers: what is true justice? Is the Puppet King’s slayer—the newly crowned Empress of the Light—succeeding at being a benevolent ruler? Can she right all the wrongs that she herself had suffered? And what will it take to finally break the cycle of violence and coercion?”

Pre-order Empires Must Fall.

Ghost Of The Machine - The One (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube

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Jerry Ewing

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.

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