A Familiar Path

The NEW At War With Self disc, A Familiar Path, will be released in mid-November. Discs are being manufactured now.

Track list (click on each for MP3 previews):

Reflections (click for full-length MP3)

Diseased State

A Familiar Path

The Ether Trail

Ourselves

Etude 10 (Villa-Lobos)

Concrete and Poison

Hope

Site Re-Design

Welcome to the newly re-designed site! A very generous AWWS fan took it upon himself to do a complete overhaul of the site and contents (for the second time now!!!), and the end result is what you see here. I'm incredibly happy with it, and hope you all are as well! The experience of knowing the music is appreciated to the extent that people will send an e-mail to thank me, or go even further to devote their time and energy to support my efforts by doing an interview, writing a review or doing a complete site re-design is humbling to say the least - hearing from people around the world is one of the best outcomes of writing and recording.

All news will be posted on the blog from this point on, and I'll do my best to answer any of your questions to news-related posts. Please be patient if I don't respond right away - as some of you may have noticed, I've been slow at times to update the site with news posts or respond to e-mail (I'm sure this format will make life easier). Lately I've purposefully avoided frequent posts and logging into myspace and here, etc., to keep focused on getting the next CD out...once that happens I'll probably use this format to post on a more frequent basis.

The new disc is being mastered, and a preview track will be posted shortly. Anticipated release date for A Familiar Path is sometime in late August/early September.

Thanks for listening!!!

Glenn

now playing in the car:
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Riotgod
Alex Machacek - Improvision
Project Z - self-titled

at home:
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail (SACD)
Opeth - Watershed (DTS 5.1)
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes (DVD-A 5.1)

An update long overdue!!! Manfred Dikkers and I have been busy working on the next At War With Self release, A Familiar Path, to be released in the next few months. Mark Sunshine will be graciously taking time away from RiotGod to provide vocals for a couple of the tracks. As the release date gets closer updated preview clips and full length tracks will be available for download, so check back soon!

Here's a link to an interview done for Archaic Magazine a while back that discusses Acts of God and the new disc. Thanks to Ron Salden for his time and the detailed questions.

Here are some preview clips for the next At War With Self disc. The disc won't be released until 2009, but I'm excited to share some of the rough mixes to date for some of the songs. This disc will be a return to some fundamental ideas for me as a guitarist and songwriter. When I started recording my ideas for combining classical guitar and metal, it was at a time where synths and string programming was not an option for me to include in the compositions, without resorting to trying (very poorly) to play the violin parts I had written.

A lot has changed since then, and I'm fortunate to have had the tools available to incorporate into the writing process. This disc will not be an exception to use of these tools. It will however, be much more streamlined and focused on my original goal 15 years ago - to intertwine acoustic and heavier electric guitars together into compositions. To re-enforce that concept, I've decided to re-record a version of Reflections from the first GK disc, more similar to my original idea for the song. There will also be a performance of a Villa-Lobos etude, to make it clear how critical my influences have been on my path to this point. There are also lots of heavy rhythm guitars, arising from too many influences to mention here (the listener can draw their own conclusions on these).

I think these clips capture the essence of that spirit well. Manfred Dikkers, one of the drummers on Acts of God, is playing all the drums here, with myself covering the rest.

There are still many, many details that need to be worked out before the next release, but hopefully this will give you an idea of what's to come! Thanks for listening.

• The Ether Trail 2008 preview
• A Familiar Path 2008 preview
• A Gap in the Stream of Mind Part IV 2008 preview
• Concrete and Poison 2008 preview

The NEW At War With Self disc, Acts of God (click here for more info - visit Sluggo's Goon Music to stream the entire disc) is available for purchase at CD Baby!

The debut At War With Self disc, Torn Between Dimensions (click here for more info and sound files) is available for purchase at The Laser's Edge!