3RDEGREE Releases ONES & ZEROS: VOLUME 0 April 30-U.S./CANADA Tour in May

[3RDegree_Robert]

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3RDEGREE RELEASES SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM ONES AND ZEROS: VOLUME 0 WITH U.S./CANADA TOUR TO IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW

New album is companion piece to 2015’s ONES & ZEROS: VOLUME 1

Ridgefield Park, NJ USA, March 5, 2018– Independent American progressive rock band 3RDegree will release the follow-up to Ones & Zeros: Volume 1 on April 30, 2018. Envisioned as a prequel (that’s still a thing right?), it is aptly titled Ones & Zeros: Volume 0. Where Volume 1 imagined a world transformedby a Technological Singularity, Volume 0 supplies the backstory nearer to present-day. Instead of a landscape dominated by a ubiquitous corporation, the world is seen through the eyes of cybernetic companions, ambitious transhumanist parents, lonely internet trolls, social media addicts trying to expand their personal brand and elitists moving to New Zealand to ride out the apocalypse. And in true 3RDegree fashion, this is all delivered with a healthy dose of dark humor using melodic, song-based progressive rock as the vehicle.

3RDegree are coming off a high following 2015’s Ones & Zeros: vol. 1-the final release from 10T Records. The collection garnered the best reviews of their career including a third-place finish on Progarchives.com’s year-end list just behind Anekdoten and Steven Wilson. It also set them on a tour that included five European countries and several US states, highlighted by performances at the Summer’s End Festival (UK) and 2016’s RoSfest in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Their most recent appearance at the budding ProgStock Festval (NJ), featured a stage show replete with ornate video backdrop and a Ted Talk-ish narrator purporting to be from the fictitious Valhalla Biotech Corporation which features large in Ones & Zeros.

The CD will be available via PayPal directly from the band at www.3RDegreeONLINE.com, at the band’s Bandcamp page as well as from many prog rock retailers worldwide such as Just For Kicks (Germany), The Merch Desk (UK), Syn-Phonic (US) and others. Download will be available on iTunes, Amazon and most others although 24bit/44.1khz version will be exclusive to Bandcamp and the band’s website.

The “Ones & Zeros Show” Tour 2018 (previewed here in this video) comes to the following cities and venues on these dates:

• May 11 The Delancey New York, NY
• May 12 TBD Baltimore, MD Email band at tix@3rdegreeonline.com for entry and address
• May 13 Roxy & Dukes Roadhouse (NJ Proghouse presents) Dunellen, NJ
• May 15 Reggie’s Chicago, IL
• May 16 Wilbert’s Cleveland, OH
• May 18 The Port Theater Cornwall, ON Canada
• May 19 Starlite Southbridge, MA
• May 20 The Hatbox Theater Concord, NH

Please note that a special “meet & greet” with members of the band will take place in the merch rooms at RoSfest at the Majestic Theater in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania all day Saturday, May 5th.

[3RDegree_Robert]

[3RDegree_Robert]

The album is up on Bandcamp and 3RDegreeonline.com. One song available now and total digital release on April 30th with CDs being mailed out that week.

If you're attending any of the shows on the May 11-20 tour and want a CD, the band has enabled a "tour option" on it's own website only that gives you the entire album immediately and then the CD is given to you at the show. This is to allow fans to get familiar with the music before the shows.

Anyone hear the album yet?

[progmatist]

Been waiting with bated breath for the Hi-Res version on Bandcamp. Will purchase this evening after work.

[Gerhard]

First available song (Logical Conclusion) is nice, looking forward to hearing the rest. CD ordered on Bandcamp.

[3RDegree_Robert]

Thanks Gerhard and future thanks to you progmatist! Just starting to get some feedback now. It's always rewarding to hear thoughts about something you spent years creating.

[Neptune]

LOVING this album!! Robert, you and your band mates are justified in being damn proud of this.

[Crawford Glissadevil]

Looking forward the postman delivering my preordered album.

[aith01]

Hoping to spend some time with this one when I get home this evening. Loved the previous disc.

[3RDegree_Robert]

Awesome Neptune, Crawford and aith01! By the way, who are you guys! PM me

Everyone just to be clear. People who are saying they've heard the music already are either 1. radio DJs 2. album reviewers but more likely 3. people who preordered our album. They are getting the album 2 weeks early and got the one song that is playable on Bandcamp right now ("Logical Conclusion") 6+ months ago. The album will be released to Bandcamp and anyone buying via PayPal at www.3RDegreeonline.com on April 30th.

[3RDegree_Robert]

Reviews are coming in....

http://progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=1915679

[arabicadabra]

Here's my take on it:

3rDegree - Ones & Zeroes Pt 0

In 2015 the always adventurous 3rDegree released what I assume will be their artistic peak. A completely fresh and uncategorizable concept album called Ones And Zeroes Pt 1, it sounded different every time I played it and still does. Working within the limits of niche band economics, they achieved this unimaginable height purely on the strength of their compositional ideas. And the accolades poured in. Since this is a band who have been consistently topping themselves and surprising their fans since their comeback album “narrow-caster”, Ones And Zeroes Pt 1 was akin to a Dark Side Of The Moon to these ears, certainly in scope even if not in sonic lushness.

I was all set, then, for them to finally have a break in the winning streak. I mean, no one can keep leaping over expectations forever, right? I even told a few of the band members I’d be thrilled if they made a new record that was merely good. And when I was blessed with an advance copy of the follow up, Ones And Zeroes Part 0, I grinned and told myself as the rocking opener kicked in, “that’s better than good!”

I had no idea how much better. The first 3 or 4 listens I really liked it, feeling that they’d kept a bit of the unexpected from Part 1 and blended that with their penchant for hooks-less-travelled that made their earlier albums embed themselves so deeply into my heart. It seemed they had come up with a new gem worthy of their prior releases.
But this morning, not fully awake, I put on my trusty Grado headphones and decided to give it a slice of quiet zone-in time. And I entered an inter-dimensional anomaly of the unknown. If Part 1 depicted a freakish new world, Part 0 shows us in horrible detail how we’ll get there by our own device-clutching hands. Indicting present day mankind with a mirror so clear you’ll want to run, the message is matched by music that is miraculously timeless, somehow familiar but not. If people were spontaneously exploding and no one knew why, this album would be like a Unabomber manifesto where the only bombs are truth and we’d all be singing along, awaiting the inevitable.

Individual song comments won’t help describe this for you (at least, not from me) ; you really need to experience it as a whole. Lyrically “Connecting” is arrow-splitting in it’s accuracy. And “Click Away!” Is the most unique 15 minute prog epic ever. Ever! But they’re both part of a monster of an album that will give you an individual ride by touching your innermost thoughts and fears. Is it better than Part 1? Impossible to say. But it’s easily as important to our time as The Who’s Quadrophenia and Queensryche’s Operation: Mindcrime were to theirs. The only criticism I can possibly make is that I wish there was a section of menacing overdriven electric guitar to drive home the scary way this shoe fits. But the world we’re heading for has digitized those guitars down to ones and zeroes, just like it seeks to do to all human experience. This album? Chilling. Essential. Run!

[3RDegree_Robert]

Greg-Thanks for that wonderfully written critique! It's a little bit different an animal than Vol. 1 was and I'm glad you were able to enjoy it as it's own thing as well as a counterpart.

Here's another review written by someone who knew 2015's Vol. 1 really well also: http://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog...s-zeros-vol-0/. Fun fact. The writer of this review was in attendance at our Paris, France show.

[rickawakeman]

I ordered the tour package as I'll be attending the Starlite show, so I've been enjoying getting to know the new disc which sounds great. Really impressed by the as-ever intelligent lyrics.

[Jimmy Giant]

Gave a pretty good listen on the way back from ROSfest. Definitely well done. Very enjoyable throughout. I'll have to spend some time reading through the lyrics.
Looking forward to some live action from it this weekend.
Thanks for handing me my pre-ordered disc Robert. That's service! These guys really take care of their fans.

[3RDegree_Robert]

Thanks for coming to Baltimore Jimmy! Man do we love playing that place!


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[Boceephus]

Got the CD and t-shirt in the mail yesterday! I’m really liking Vol 0 & cranked it while doing yard work!


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[3RDegree_Robert]

Great to hear Dan. Thanks for sticking with us!


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[JKL2000]

Got my CD in the mail today, as I was heading out in the car, so I had a chance to listen to about 3/4 of it, and it’s great! Somehow very easy to listen to yet still very interesting and proggy. Probably the best 3rDegree album.

[3RDegree_Robert]

Got my CD in the mail today, as I was heading out in the car, so I had a chance to listen to about 3/4 of it, and it’s great! Somehow very easy to listen to yet still very interesting and proggy. Probably the best 3rDegree album.

SO glad to hear Jed! You’ll probably like the last 1/4 best!


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[3RDegree_Robert]

How's the record growing on you? Just wanted to put down a bunch of links to reviews to check out if you're into that sort of thing:

PROGARCHIVES (many here, and we're currently #1 album) **note** If you can throw together 100 words we'd love you to review the album here

THE PROGRESSIVE ASPECT

THE PROG MIND

SEA OF TRANQUILITY

ROCK REPORT (Belgium)

MUSIC IN BELGIUM (FRENCH)

PROFIL (QUEBEC-French translation)

STREETCLIP (German translation)

LA SEXTA CUERDA (Spanish translation)

THE SOUND OF FIGHTING CATS

BABY BLUE PAGES (German)

MUSIC WAVES (French)

NEOPROG (French)

WHISKEY SODA (German)

MY PROG MUSIC (French translation)

JD Byrne's blog

RATE YOUR MUSIC

RADIO 68

[moecurlythanu]

I'm loving the latest album, Robert. Anyone who loves Progressive Rock in the familiar 70s style should check it out. It's quite good.

[Boceephus]

I put the two latest cds in a single mix and I’ve been playing them back to back in sequence & you guys have really made a solid conceptual story work. I’m listening to the set at least once a week or more. The tunes are still growing on me!


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[3RDegree_Robert]

I'm loving the latest album, Robert. Anyone who loves Progressive Rock in the familiar 70s style should check it out. It's quite good.

We're getting a lot of that sort of commentary more than previous albums-the "familiar 70's style". We're also being called "Neo" in few reviews. I agree with the 1st sentiment (mostly in our instrumentation and maybe our keyboard sound choices), and do not on the second.

I put the two latest cds in a single mix and I’ve been playing them back to back in sequence & you guys have really made a solid conceptual story work. I’m listening to the set at least once a week or more. The tunes are still growing on me!

Excellent! Which order though? Glad you're getting rewarded with repeated listenings.

[doh]

Resurrecting this thread because it's new to me.

I have been listening to this quite a few times on Progstreaming over the last two weeks and it has really grown on me. While I've seen the band members here, this was my first exposure to their actual music. I didn't think much about it the first time but it kept calling me back until it's part of my regular rotation now. It hits those sweet spots between accessible / complex and melodic / epic for me.

I've been checking out the other releases on Bandcamp. Any favorites I should check out first?