GHOST OF THE MACHINE Empires Must Fall - Novinka

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Empires Must Fall is the hotly anticipated second album from Yorkshire-based progressive rock band Ghost Of The Machine, releasing on 7 March 2025 through ProgRock.com’s Essentials label.

Ghost Of The Machine blew fans away with their award winning 2022 debut LP Scissorgames and went on to be named one of the best unsigned bands in that year’s PROG Magazine readers poll. Comprised of Charlie Bramald (Age of Distraction, ex-Nova Cascade) and former This Winter Machine members Graham Garbett, Mark Hagan, Stuart McAuley, Andy Milner, and Scott Owens, the sextet’s captivating and refined balance of emotional songwriting and vibrant instrumentation quickly won over many admirers, and led to the band signing with PRE for their follow-up album.

Empires Must Fall maintains Ghost Of The Machine’s trademark anthemic hooks and beefy melodic rock production (once again courtesy of Bob Cooper) and it also explores “denser and darker arrangements that”—Bramald promises—will “scratch that ‘prog’ itch while striking a careful balance between shorter, more accessible songs and those epic-length pieces that we’re known for.”

The new album tells a continuation of the story that started with the ‘Scissors’ suite on the previous album. Bramald adds, “Our first record concluded with the tyrannical Puppet King being vanquished by his final victim… she slew him with a pair of scissors! 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?”

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Ghost of the Machine
Empires Must Fall

1. Keepers of the Light
2. The Days That Never Were
3. Panopticon
4. Fall Through Time
5. The One
6. After the War