King Crimson – In The Court of The Crimson King: King Crimson at 50 (2022) 2xBlu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.1 + 4CD

Title: King Crimson – In The Court of The Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
Release Date: 2022
Genre: Progressive Rock

Production/Label: Panegyric
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 37933 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3145 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 39.96 + 43.82 GB

A two disc Blu-Ray/DVD edition of Toby Amies’ superb documentary In The Court Of The Crimson King – King Crimson at 50 including the full documentary film, an edit from an early version of the film, the final performance of Starless from the band’s final concert in Tokyo (in December 2021) and four trailers/shorts.

Film Audio: DTS-HD MA 5.1 24/48 (Blu-Ray), Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 24/48 (DVD). Audio for the film and all other selections plays in LPCM Stereo 24/48 on both formats.

Presented in miniature gatefold sleeve with credits booklet.

“In the Court of the Crimson King is really about as good as rock documentaries get.” – Variety

“This elegant, intimate, funny and surprisingly moving film covers every aspect of the group — from its thorny interpersonal history to the almost religious loyalty it inspires in fans — and lays out exactly what makes Crimson such a singular and enduring musical force.” – Rolling Stone

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Toby Amies’ film about one of rock music’s most enduring, but simultaneously elusive, bands provides a unique insight into the working process of a complex touring band, interspersed with contributions from previous band members to provide a contextual backdrop to the band’s past, as the most recent (2014-2021) line-up tours the world just before and during its 50th anniversary.

As King Crimson producer and band manager, David Singleton observed of the film: “All of life is here, not just music, and certainly not just rock. It has rightly been described as going beyond King Crimson into a ‘universal, inspirational study of what it is to work or dream to work as an artist’.”

While director Toby Amies writes of the experience: “In the Court of the Crimson King is not a film that wants to tell the audience what to think, rather it presents several different points of view about the creative process and what it means to be in this most unusual band; leaving the audience with a sense of both how complicated it all is, but also just how incredibly rewarding the King Crimson experience is both for the musicians and its fans.”
Robert Fripp announced that King Crimson had “moved from sound to silence” on social media after their final date in Japan in December 2021, making this release all the more poignant as a unique record of the band’s longest lasting line-up with tantalising glimpses of the band’s history.

King Crimson has been described as popular but never populist. Just as King Crimson has been, for more than half a century, an atypical rock band, this film is a refreshingly atypical music documentary.

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King Crimson – Meltdown: Live in Mexico (2018) 1080p Blu-ray AVC DTS-HD MA 5.1 + BDRip 720p

Title: King Crimson – Meltdown: Live in Mexico
Release Date: 2018
Genre: Rock, Prog Rock

Production/Label: iscipline Global Mobile
Duration: 2:32:28+3:39:18
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 382 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio 2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4556 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 36.83 GB

3CD/1Blu-Ray set featuring over three and a half hours of material performed during King Crimson’s five night residency at Teatro Metropolitan, Mexico City in July 2017 plus audio extras.

The Blu-Ray contains over two hours of multi-camera HD recorded footage, audio soundtrack in 24/48 LPCM, hi-res stereo and 5.1 DTS HD-MA (with ‘picture off’ mode allowing the music to be heard independently in lossless audio).

Meltdown includes, for the first time with this line-up, audio recordings of Breathless, Discipline, Moonchild and Tony and Jeremy’s nightly Cadenza improvs.

Mixed by Don Gunn, Mixes produced by King Crimson member Bill Rieflin from full multi-track recordings and presented in two mini-vinyl style gatefold packs with booklet – including photos by Tony Levin and sleeve notes – enclosed in an outer slipcase.

A comprehensive overview of a band at the peak of its performing ability.

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King Crimson – USA (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

King Crimson – USA (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:07:13 minutes | 830 MB | Genre: Rock
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USA was recorded towards the end of King Crimson’s final US tour of the 70s in June 1974. It was issued as an epitaph for the band in Spring 1975 as a single album – at a time when doubles or even triple live albums were more considered the norm for live releases. Deleted towards the end of the vinyl era in the mid-80s, it remained unreleased in the album era until the expanded edition was finally issued in October 2002. In common with much of Crimson’s output, it was not well received at the time by critics, though its critical reputation grew immeasurably in the intervening years to the point where a review of the ‘21st Century Guide to King Crimson’ boxed set in 2004 identified the album as the point “…where Fripp maps out the guitar blueprint for the entire post-punk movement.”

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King Crimson – Heaven & Earth (2019) [18CD + 4 Blu-ray Super Deluxe Box Set]

This box set features 18 CDs, 3 x blu-ray audio, one blu-ray video and two DVD-Audio discs. The first three CDs are devoted to enhanced version of the studio albums The ConstruKction Of Light (2000) and The Power to Believe (2003). The former has been remixed (by Don Gunn) and features all new drums by Pat Mastelotto and has a new moniker The ReconstruKction Of LightThe Power to Believe is featured as an extended/enhanced stereo mix and includes the studio version of Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With and Level 5.

The next four CDs feature the instrumental/improvised ProjeKcts, er, projects, described as “research and development” by Robert Fripp. These are all new to CD and each ‘ProjeKct’ each CD features a different line-up.

A further 11 CDs feature live recordings (several new to CD, with some material previously unreleased) from the 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2008 tours.

Of the three blu-ray audios:

  • Disc One contains the complete recordings of ProjeKcts 1, 3, 4 & 6 – every single concert plus additional material the ProjeKcts released, it features the complete albums: ProjeKct 1- Space Groove, The ProjeKcts – 4CD box, ProjeKct 1 – Jazz Café Suite, ProjeKct X – Heaven & Earth, BPM&M – ExtraKcts & ArtifaKcts and Rieflin/Fripp/Gunn – Repercussions of Angelic Behaviour
  • Disc Two contains the complete recordings of ProjeKct 2 (every single concert). More than 30 shows plus an album’s worth of rehearsals.
  • Disc Three contains The ReconstruKction Of Light – the album in stereo and 5.1 mixes with the drums completely re-recorded by Pat Mastelotto – stereo mixes by Don Gunn, 5.1 mixes by David Singleton and the original album in hi-res stereo, The Power to Believe – expanded/enhanced 2019 master (2 tracks with additional elements plus 3 extra tracks assembled/mixed by David Singleton) and 5.1 surround mixes by David Singleton – all mixes executive produced by Robert Fripp – plus the Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With and Level 5 mini-albums, the 2000 show from London, the EleKtriK live album from 2003 and a video of a tour of the KC studio/live equipment setup from 2002.

There is also blu-Ray video disc of Europe 2000 – The Bootleg TV tour, which features around 10 hours of audio/video mostly never seen/heard since the concerts with versions of selected songs and improvs (usually two per night of each) from almost every show. Includes footage and music from 20 performances.

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King Crimson – Three of a Perfect Pair (1984/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

King Crimson – Three of a Perfect Pair (1984/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:18 minutes | 734 MB | Genre: Rock
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Upon its release in 1984, Three of a Perfect Pair caused some unrest among fans of King Crimson. Most of their audience felt that the band had made a conscious and obvious decision to try to break through to a more mainstream pop audience. But in hindsight, this is hardly the case; it sounds unlike anything that was out at the time. Like 1982’s Beat, Three of a Perfect Pair doesn’t quite meet the high standards set by 1981’s Discipline, but does contain a few Crimson treats. The opening title track has an unrelenting groove that never seems to let up, while “Sleepless” starts off with Tony Levin laying down some funky bass until Adrian Belew’s trademark paranoid vocals kick in and assure the listener that “it’s alright to feel a little fear.” Also included are the seven-minute instrumental soundscape “Industry,” and the cautionary tale of a “Model Man.” This would prove to be the new King Crimson’s last release for nearly ten years; the group disbanded soon after as its members concentrated on solo careers and other projects, until a mid-’90s reunion brought them all back together.

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King Crimson – THRAK (1995/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

King Crimson – THRAK (1995/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:21 minutes | 681 MB | Genre: Rock
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The only progressive rock band from the ’60s to be making new, vital, progressive music in the ’90s, King Crimson returned from a ten-year exile in 1995 with THRAK, their first album since 1984’s Three of a Perfect Pair. As with the ’80s band, guitarist/ringleader Robert Fripp recruited singer/guitarist Adrian Belew, bassist Tony Levin, and drummer Bill Bruford for this incarnation of his classic band. However, he added to this familiar quartet two new members: Chapman Stick player Trey Gunn and ex-Mr. Mister drummer Pat Mastelotto. Effectively, Fripp created a “double trio,” and the six musicians combine their instruments in extremely unique ways. The mix is very dense, overpoweringly so at times, but careful listens will reveal that each musician has his own place in each song; the denseness of the sound is by design, not the accidental result of too many cooks in the kitchen. Sometimes, as in “THRAK,” the two trios are set against each other, in some sort of musical faux combat. In others, they just combine their respective sounds to massive effect. On “Dinosaur,” perhaps the strongest track on the record, Mastelotto and Bruford set up an ominous tom-tom groove that supports an even more ominous guitar figure. The vocal, the musings of a long-dead sauropod, are vintage Belew, just as the freaky, falling-down-the-stairs solo in the middle is vintage Fripp. Other high points include the drum duet “B’Boom” and the two Belew/Fripp “Inner Garden” pieces. Allusions to earlier Crimson abounds, such as the form of “VROOM,” for example, which is suspiciously reminiscent of “Red” (from the 1974 album of the same name), or the shout-out to “The Sheltering Sky” (from 1981’s Discipline) in “Walking on Air.” Thankfully, this never gets annoying, but instead acts as a subtle nudge and a wink to faithful fans. King Crimson came back in a major way with THRAK, and proved that, even in its fourth major incarnation, Fripp and company still had something to say. High-quality prog. ~ Daniel Gioffre

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King Crimson – The Power To Believe (2003/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

King Crimson – The Power To Believe (2003/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:16 minutes | 567 MB | Genre: Rock
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The Power to Believe (2003) marks the return of King Crimson for the group’s first full-length studio release since ConstruKction of Light (2000). While it draws upon material featured on the live Level Five (2001) and studio Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With (2002) extended-play discs, there are also several new sonic sculptures included. Among them is the title track, which is divided into a series of central thematic motifs much in the same manner as the “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic” movements had done in the past. This 21st century schizoid band ably bears the torch of its predecessors with the same ballsy aggression that has informed other seminal King Crimson works – such as In the Court of the Crimson King (1969), Red (1974), and more recently THRAK (1995). This incarnation of the Mighty Krim includes the excessively talented quartet of Adrian Belew (guitar/vocals), Robert Fripp (guitar), Trey Gunn (Warr guitar/Warr fretless guitar), and Pat Mastelotto (percussion). Under the auspices of Machine – whose notable productions include post-grunge and industrial medalists Pitchshifter and White Zombie – the combo unleashes a torrent of alternating sonic belligerence (“Level Five”) and inescapable beauty (“Eyes Wide Open”). These extremes are linked as well as juxtaposed by equally challenging soundscapes from Fripp on “The Facts of Life: Intro” as well as Belew’s series of “The Power to Believe” haikus. The disc is fleshed out with some choice extended instrumentals such as “Elektrik” and “Dangerous Curves,” boasting tricky time signatures that are indelibly linked to equally engaging melodies. Both “Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With” and “Facts of Life” stand out as the (dare say) perfect coalescence of Belew’s uncanny Beatlesque lyrical sense with the sort of bare-knuckled, in your face aural attack that has defined King Crimson for over three decades. If the bandmembers’ constant tone probing is an active search to find the unwitting consciousness of a decidedly younger, rowdier, and more demanding audience, their collective mission is most assuredly accomplished on The Power to Believe – even more so than the tripped-out psychedelic prog rock behemoth from whence they initially emerged.

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King Crimson – The ConstruKction of Light (2000/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

King Crimson – The ConstruKction of Light (2000/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:28 minutes | 863 MB | Genre: Rock
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King Crimson, one of the few first-generation progressive rock bands to remain nearly consistent in the quality of their output throughout their career, fall flat with The ConstruKction of Light, the band’s 12th studio album. Unable to shed the weight of their oft-brilliant history, the most promising moments of ConstruKction are crushed underneath the bulk. What makes ConstruKction such a disappointment is, despite how “progressive” the band-fragmenting ProjeKct approach appeared on paper, upon execution, it produced an utterly backward-looking album. More self-referential than a Jean-Luc Godard film, nearly every song on ConstruKction contains a heavy-handed nod to a previous Crimson song. There are even two tracks that are directly named after old Crimson material: “FraKctured” and “Larks Tongues in Aspic-Part IV.” The most notable shift the pared-down, four-piece Crimson makes with ConstruKction is getting rid of acoustic drums in favor of electronic “V” drums (courtesy of Pat Mastelotto, who took over full-time duties after Bruford left). Crimson does not seem to lose much in the transition, and, overall, the musicianship is superb as usual, but it’s almost as if they thought new technology and a stripped down lineup would make up for a dearth of new ideas. Treading water is still treading water, even if the waters happen to be deep. There are, however, two bright spots on the album: “Into the Frying Pan” and “Heaven and Earth.” The former features guitarist/vocalist Adrian Belew at his quirky best, and the latter (credited to Project X instead of King Crimson) is a beautifully textured, near-ambient piece that slowly builds intensity before a long, slow release. Together, they suggest that King Crimson may still have some gas left in their tank after all.

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King Crimson – Radical Action To Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind (Live) (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

King Crimson – Radical Action To Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:41:04 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Rock
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It has been stated many times that King Crimson is not so much a band as it is “a way of doing things”. Less frequently stated but equally true, is the fact that the band inevitably seeks different ways of doing things. The current incarnation of the band, 2014 – the present day, has already released two taster sets in the form of 2015’s Live at the Orpheum mini-album and the vinyl picture disc EP that accompanied the 2015 tours of Canada and Japan, while the full raw concert performance from a single night in Toronto in 2015 was presented as a 2CD set earlier this year to great acclaim. Now, with the release of Radical Action comes the most fully realised audio and visual statement from this band to date, running to three themed CDs and a Blu-Ray disc offering the filmed content along with an audio only option in lossless high resolution stereo and surround sound.

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King Crimson – Walk On 1 (Live in Mexico, July 2017) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

King Crimson – Walk On 1 (Live in Mexico, July 2017) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:39:40 minutes | 2,61 GB | Genre: Rock
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King Crimson will next month issue Meltdown (Live in Mexico City), a new four-disc deluxe set next month that features over three and a half hours of material performed during the band’s five nights residency at Teatro Metropolitan, Mexico City in July 2017.

The audio is available across the three CDs but the blu-ray element features over two hours of multi-camera HD footage with an 24/48 LPCM hi-res stereo and 5.1 DTS HD-MA surround sound. This disc comes with a ‘picture off’ mode too, if those pesky visuals get in the way of a real lossless audio experience! The audio has been mixed by King Crimson member Bill Rieflin, from full multi track recordings.

The four discs come in two mini-LP CD vinyl replica-style gatefold wallets which reside in an outer slipcase. A booklet includes photos by Tony Levin and new sleeve notes is included.

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King Crimson – Lizard (1970/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

King Crimson – Lizard (1970/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:24 minutes | 608 MB | Genre: Rock
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Released in December 1970, King Crimson’s third studio album, Lizard, is often viewed as an outlier in the pioneering British prog outfit’s nearly half-century discography. It’s not easily grouped with 1969’s stunning In the Court of the Crimson King debut and 1970 follow-up In the Wake of Poseidon, and along with 1971’s Islands it’s considered a transitional release on the band’s path toward the relative stability of the Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (1973), Starless and Bible Black (1974), and Red (1974) trilogy. Plus, the Lizard sessions were difficult and the core group lineup acrimoniously collapsed immediately afterward, as bandleader/guitarist Robert Fripp, with lyricist Peter Sinfield, continued brave efforts to save King Crimson from disintegrating as the group’s lengthy history was just getting underway. Even Fripp himself wasn’t a big Lizard fan until he reportedly “heard the Music in the music” when listening to Steven Wilson’s 2009 40th anniversary remix. Yet there are plenty of Crimson followers who place Lizard at the very apex of the group’s recorded legacy – and with good reason. Seamlessly blending rock, jazz, and classical in a way that few albums have successfully achieved, Lizard is epic, intimate, cacophonic, and subtle by turn – and infused with the dark moods first heard when “21st Century Schizoid Man” and “Epitaph” reached listeners’ ears the previous year.

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King Crimson – Live in Vienna (1 December 2016) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

King Crimson – Live in Vienna (1 December 2016) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:12:45 minutes | 2,21 GB | Genre: Rock
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Live In Vienna, December 1st, 2016 is a new 3-disc set by King Crimson. Featuring a rendition of Fracture, one of the most acclaimed KC compositions and last performed live in 1974, the three-disc set will be released on April 6th.

Mixed from the original multitracks discs one and two feature the complete first and second sets from the evening’s show. Disc three includes a series of soundscapes edited into newly sequenced pieces. Drawn from the introduction music (composed/improvised afresh for each night) & featuring Robert Fripp, Mel Collins & Tony Levin, this essential component of current live KC shows also receives its most complete presentation to date. In addition, the third disc includes the long awaited live recorded debut of Fracture by the 2016 line-up as performed in Copenhagen.

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King Crimson – Live In Chicago, 28 June 2017 (Collector’s Club Special Edition) (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

King Crimson – Live In Chicago, 28 June 2017 (Collector’s Club Special Edition) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:35:50 minutes | 3,22 GB | Genre: Rock
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Two CD set, taken from the band’s most recent US tour. Media-book presentation with 24 pages booklet featuring photography by Tony Levin & David Singleton. Featuring many iconic King Crimson pieces performed live by this line-up for the first time – some being played live for the first time ever, including: Islands, The Lizard Suite, The Errors, Fallen Angel, Cirkus & more.

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King Crimson – Live At The Orpheum (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

King Crimson – Live At The Orpheum (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:56 minutes | 783 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock
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Live at the Orpheum is a live album by the band King Crimson, released by Discipline Global Mobile records in 2015. The album was recorded on the 30th of September and 1st of October at the Orpeheum Theatre in Boston, Massacheussets on the band’s The Elements of King Crimson US tour of 2014.

King Crimson’s 2014 tour marked guitarist, founder and leader Robert Fripp’s return to active service after a long legal battle with Universal Music Group. This line-up of King Crimson is notable for featuring three drummers, Pat Mastelloto, Gavin Harrison and Bill Rieflin. The other members of the band are long standing bass player Tony Levin, Mel Collins who was previously in the band from 1970 to 1971, also playing on Red in 1974, Jakko Jakszyk on guitar and vocals and Robert Fripp.

All the shows on the tour were recorded on multitrack with Jakko Jakszyk sorting through the recordings. The two shows at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles were chosen for release. The album features 41 minutes of selections from the set and will be released on the 13th of January, 2015 on CD/DVD-A and heavy-weight vinyl.

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King Crimson – Heroes (Live in Europe 2016) – EP (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

King Crimson – Heroes (Live in Europe 2016) – EP (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 26:27 minutes | 311 MB | Genre: Rock
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DGM and Panegyric are proud to present King Crimson’s Heroes EP – recorded live on the European tour of 2016. The title track sees Robert Fripp reprise the unforgettable guitar role he created for the original David Bowie studio recording in the same city in 1977, particularly poignant in the year of Bowie’s death. Also featured on the EP are a ten minutes recording of Easy Money (Paris), a song that varies in length and solos from night to night and is always a fan favourite, an edited version (featuring the “song section”) of Crim Classic Starless often a set closer, always a stand-out moment and a recording of the three drummers’ showpiece The Hell Hounds of Krim (both from Vienna) – all previously unreleased live recordings.

The EP is completed with a ‘radio edit’ of Heroes.

A full live album, recorded on the 2016 European tour will be issued in September 2017.

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