EDENSONG: New York City-Based Progressive Rock Quartet To Release Our Road To Dust Full-Length May 9th On The Lasers Edge; Title Track, Preorders, Live Dates, And More Posted

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The Lasers Edge presents Our Road To Dust, the first new album in nine years from New York City-based progressive rock troupe EDENSONG.

Hailed as a “a great example of contemporary Progressive Rock” by Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, EDENSONG has delighted audiences throughout the US and abroad with their genre-bending blend: a hard driving rhythm section, flute playing that ranges from serenely melodic to avant-garde, lush vocal harmonies, and more than a touch of orchestral ambition. They have supported diverse acts including Kings X, Ozric Tentacles, Pain Of Salvation, Neal Morse Band, and Anglagard, and have headlined their own tours throughout the US, UK, and Canada.

EDENSONG now returns with their long-awaited new album Our Road To Dust in 2025, their first since releasing the critically adored Years In The Garden Of Years in 2016. Their first album to be crafted as a quartet, the record embodies the ambitious, detailed, and eclectic sound they have cultivated over the years, but is far heavier, more focused, and full of infectious melodic hooks.

With additional recording, sound design and production elements handled from allies across New York, London, and more, Our Road To Dust was produced and recorded by James Byron Schoen at Firecat Audio in New York City, and mixed by Johan Martin/mastered by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden (Katatonia, Opeth, Amorphis). The record is completed with photography by Kelly Robertson and artwork by Nate Dorr and Ben Wigler.

With the lead single from Our Road To Dust, the epic title track which closes the album, the band's James Schoen offers, “‘Our Road To Dust' is EDENSONG's first ever ‘title track.' We didn't initially consider it a ‘single,' but it has always resonated deeply with us and others who have heard it. It's our love letter to classic progressive rock - even featuring a brief mellotron cameo - and perhaps the one song on the new album that feels the most quintessentially, classically ‘Edensong.'

He continues, “This album marks a time of deep change for the band, both personally and sonically, and Our Road To Dust is the thread that binds us to our past. It's a song about getting older, losing loved ones, and the death of a dream, but also about brotherhood, taking stock of what really matters, and choosing - perhaps misguidedly - to keep traveling that dusty road. Oh, and there are plenty of odd meters and polyrhythms and other proggy nonsense along the way...”

The prog authorities at The Lasers Edge will release Our Road To Dust on CD and on all digital platforms on May 9th. Preorders are live at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp - the standard audio HERE and the hi-res HERE - and digital presaves are posted HERE.

Watch for additional videos and audio previews of the album to drop over the weeks leading up to its release.

Our Road To Dust Track Listing:

1. 1. Of Ascents
2. 2. The Illusion Of Permanence
3. 3. These Old Wounds
4. 4. Black Crow
5. 5. Hall Of Statues
6. 6. Book Of Complaints
7. 7. Of Ascents (Reprise)
8. 8. Wykkr Bäsct
9. 9. Our Road To Dust

EDENSONG will also return to the stage in support of the album, having already confirmed a release show in Brooklyn on May 8th, followed by a special performance at the Terra Incognita Festival in Quebec City on May 17th.

EDENSONG Live:

5/08/2025 Main Drag Music - Brooklyn, NY *Record Release Show, with Laura Meade, John Galgano (IZZ, Rennaissance), others TBA [tickets] 5/17/2025 Festival Terra Incognita @ La Chapelle Spectacles - Quebec City, QC [tickets]

EDENSONG:

James Byron Schoen - vocals, electric/acoustic guitars, Portuguese guitarra, six string banjo, keyboards

TD "BenBen" Towers - vocals, bass guitars

Barry Seroff - flute, bass and alto flutes

Nick DiGregorio - drums, percussion

Our Road To Dust guest contributions:

Chris Baum - violin (8, 9)

Shelby Logan Warne - mellotron (9), Keyboards, sequencing (4)

Stefan Paolini - piano (5)

Robby Schwartz - additional backing vocals (9)

Josh Wigler, Emily Fox, Alana Rosen - additional vocals and sounds (4)

Review copies of Our Road To Dust will be issued in the days ahead. For interviews and all coverage of EDENSONG contact dave@earsplitcompound.com. In Germany, contact marco_linke@cmm-online.de, and for Benelux, contact mike@hardlifepromotion.nl.