Flying Colors - Second Nature

**mnprogger** · 07-26-2014

http://www.levykauppax.fi/artist/fly...ond_nature/#cd

Already listed on this Finnsh webstore with the release date of September 26th.

This is just a *ROUGH TRANSLATION FROM FINNISH TO ENGLISH*

Virtuoso prog / pop / rock band with (former) members of Deep Purple, Dream Theater, The Winery Dogs, Avenged Sevenfold, Dixie Dregs, Spock's Beard, Alpha Rev & the Trans-Atlantic

Release date: 09.26.2014. Product will be shipped the release date.

You can book with this product and pick it up from the nearest Record Shop X.. This is done by moving the product to shopping cart, and then checkout the order takeout trade.
tracks

Flying Colors - Second Nature cover.jpg

1 Open Up Your Eyes
2 Mask Machine
3 Bombs Away
4 The Fury Of My Love
5 A Place In Your World
6 Lost Without You
7 One Lost Forever
8 Peaceful Harbor
9 Cosmic Symphony
I. Still Life Of The World
II. Searching For The Air
III. Pound For Pound

**Rufus** · 07-26-2014

Auto-buy! Looks like track 9 might be a mini-epic?

**SRS** · 07-26-2014

factoid: "Second Nature" was the original name of the project that became "Transatlantic"

**Yanks2014** · 07-26-2014

Awesome news, a September release! I knew they had been working on this, so it's not a surprise it's coming out. But I thought we would have to wait a lot longer.

**ScottAM** · 07-26-2014

Thanks for the sneak peak. They are supposed to be having official announcements released this coming Tuesday, likely for pre-sales and perhaps info about a 2 week tour in October, and more. Second Nature is a great Rush song, too!

**Scott Bails** · 07-27-2014

Originally Posted by Yanks2014

Awesome news, a September release! I knew they had been working on this, so it's not a surprise it's coming out. But I thought we would have to wait a lot longer.

Yeah, I thought this was going to be a 2015 release. Good news! Autobuy!

**rickawakeman** · 07-29-2014

I posted the tour dates in a separate thread.

**BarryLI** · 07-29-2014

Had it in the cart, got as far as the $5.60 shipping charge for a $14.99 CD and got stopped cold, Amazon to the rescue methinks.

**Firth** · 07-30-2014

New Keswick date, 10/4

**nycsteve** · 07-31-2014

Portnoy's beard is ridiculous.

**Dodie** · 07-31-2014

Originally Posted by nycsteve

Portnoy's beard is ridiculous.

Of course. Still love a lot of what he does, though :-)
Excited about this. Flying Colors got a lot more plays from me than either of the two Dream Theater albums since Portnoy split from them. Not trying to make any great claims about why that is. Just an interesting coincidence.

**Rufus** · 08-19-2014

New song 'Mask Machine' premiered!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=FdnKddL9giw

**Garion81** · 08-19-2014

Originally Posted by Dodie

Of course. Still love a lot of what he does, though :-)
Excited about this. Flying Colors got a lot more plays from me than either of the two Dream Theater albums since Portnoy split from them. Not trying to make any great claims about why that is. Just an interesting coincidence.

I find it interesting in that I have seen Mike with The Neal Morse Band, Transatlantic, Flying Colors, Liquid Tension Experiment and The Winery Dogs I have never seen him with Dream Theater. In fact I have never seen Dream Theater. I own 2 DT albums and have listened to them about 3 times each. Just not what I am looking for i guess but I do love Mike especially as a live performer.

**Garion81** · 08-19-2014

Originally Posted by Rufus

New song 'Mask Machine' premiered!!

Let me help you with the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=FdnKddL9giw

**calyx** · 08-19-2014

The album opens and closes with two 12-minute tracks. The rest are all in the 5-7 minute range.

**Baribrotzer** · 08-19-2014

Very well crafted, and good for what it is. And although Neal Morse may be the most naturally-gifted artist in the current prog crowd, I wonder if this kind of pop/hard-rock might be more his forte.

**Yanks2014** · 08-19-2014

Originally Posted by Garion81

I find it interesting in that I have seen Mike with The Neal Morse Band, Transatlantic, Flying Colors, Liquid Tension Experiment and The Winery Dogs I have never seen him with Dream Theater. In fact I have never seen Dream Theater. I own 2 DT albums and have listened to them about 3 times each. Just not what I am looking for i guess but I do love Mike especially as a live performer.

Portnoy is a wildly entertaining drummer live. At this point I've seen him live with DT (15 times), LTE, Transatlantic (this past February) and with John Petrucci on a G3 tour. He's still a lot of fun to watch play. I'm not the biggest TA fan, but absolutely loved that concert.

**Yanks2014** · 08-19-2014

I will check out the new song tonight.

**gearHed289** · 08-19-2014

They've clearly listened to some Muse based on what I'm hearing on Mask Machine. Not a bad thing! Looking forward to hearing more from these guys. Very inspiring.

**Rufus** · 08-19-2014

Originally Posted by gearHed289

They've clearly listened to some Muse based on what I'm hearing on Mask Machine. Not a bad thing! Looking forward to hearing more from these guys. Very inspiring.

Yeah, very modern sound! Totally different from each members respective bands, in fact doesn't sound like anything from their debut!

**gilawi** · 08-19-2014

Not too enthusiastic about this one. Listen to their debut four or five times, and then shelved. Kaila was the only song I really liked, but that is one out of eleven, so that is a very bad rate. (IMHO).