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Departure
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Artist: IT Title: Departure Format: Digital Download, USB Stick, Double CD/DVD Package Release Date: June 1st, 2009 Label: Sonic Vista Music (SVRCD010) Beginning life as a psychedelic, multi-media group, IT is a band with roots in both London England and Sault Ste. Marie Canada, IT is part of a new movement in Progressive Rock that includes such bands as Porcupine Tree and Nine Inch Nails, among others. IT’s sound fuses the classic melodies of prog rock’s past with influences only found in punk or metal bands. Politics, religion, war and sexuality all come under the Band’s lens for critical examination. Lyrics are intelligent, challenging and occasionally darkly humorous. In 2004 IT began to redefine itself as Band leader Nick Jackson experimented with new images of sight and sound that would inspire and challenge IT members and audiences alike. They defined generally and conceptually what the Band members as a group have successfully actualized in IT’s fourth album, Departure. Guitarist Andy Rowberry, who joined the Band at the end of IT’s last album tour, Over and Out, brings the power and strength of metal to IT. Drummer Alex Inglis, with his rapid-fire high-energy double-kick drumming, pumps up the punk in the Band and its roots. Keyboardist and technical guru Rob Archibald, master of diverse genres and complexities made simple, provides the fourth dimension to the Band. Many guests also joined the recording of Departure, coming from genres ranging from metal to bl
