Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to announce the release of "Agenda 21", the new studio album from the recently reformed progressive metal band Zero Hour, on May 13, 2022. Original members Jasun Tipton (guitars) and Erik Rosvold (vocals) have recruited bassist Andreas Blomqvist (Seventh Wonder) and drummer Roel van Helden to join them on this new chapter for Zero Hour. Pre-order/save "Agenda 21" HERE: orcd.co/agenda21 Originally formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in '90s by Jasun and his brother Troy, Zero Hour released six studio albums from 1998 to 2008. Their self-titled debut (1998), "The Towers of Avarice" (2001), "Metamorphosis" (2003), "A Fragile Mind" (2005), "Specs of Pictures Burnt Beyond" (2006), and "Dark Deceiver" (2008). The genesis of Zero Hour was to create heavy, melodic, dark, intricate music with influences from diverse influences like the DIO-led years of Rainbow, The Pat Metheny Group, and Dream Theater. Zero Hour dissolved after the release of their 2008 album "Dark Deceiver" when Troy Tipton suffered an arm injury that prevented him from playing bass. After Jasun and Erik got back together to start the band back up, they recruited drummer Roel van Helden. Jasun and Roel had become friends after Roel’s group at the time, Sun Caged and Zero Hour played a gig as direct support for Liquid Tension Experiment. They stayed in contact and years later, Jasun caught up with Roel overseas and they chatted about making music together. Roel was then instrumental in bringing Andreas into the fold as one of Roel’s former bands had toured with Andreas' band Seventh Wonder. Jasun structured the music for "Agenda 21", tracking the guitars and keys. Roel then arranged the drums and entered Kohlekeller Studios to record the drums with Kai Stahlenberg. Andreas followed by arranging and recording his bass at Cross Back Studios. Erik Rosvold wrote the lyrics for the songs on "Agenda 21" with the vocal melodies arranged by Erik and Jasun together as the vocals were recorded. Progressive metal fans will find much to celebrate on Zero Hour's fantastic return album, "Agenda 21"! “Agenda 21” Tracklisting: 1. Democide 2. Technocracy 3. Stigmata 4. Memento Mori 5. Agenda 21 6. Patient Zero Total length: 50.58 LINE-UP: Erik Rosvold - Vocals Jasun Tipton - Guitars and Keyboards Andreas Blomqvist- Bass Roel van Helden - Drums Social Media: facebook.com/zerohourtowers instagram.com/zerohourtowers
I can't believe this band will return one day, they are truely a tech-prog pioneer , and one of the most creative band I've ever heard, Jasun Tipton is a genius
Love it! My man on bass from Seventh Wonder (a highly underrated band!!). If the rest of the album is like this track could be a Top 11 contender for 2022!
Love that your covering these topics in metal. Finally a metal band that isn’t full of statists and lefties. Keep it up. I know Beneath the Massacre covered tyrannical government etc as well.
Erik has always been an amazing lyricist. Rebirth and Voice Of Reason have some of the best and most reflective lyrics I've ever come across in Metal. TTOA also has some very strong lyrics as well
Statists? Authoritarians? "The state" has a role in every type of government. Are you a "stateless righty?" A night's watchman type of anarchist who trusts absolutely no one (because deep down you can't be trusted)? Off-the-grid prepper? A follower of Alex Jones? Social Darwinism is the worst. A stateless system is, at best, a decentralized, orderless society stuck in the 1800s with zero chance of progressing in any way. The purpose of humanity isn't to simply live and die - it's to work towards higher levels of civilization by gaining and using knowledge and technology so that one day humans can populate other worlds, become immortal beings, and even cross into new universes. This requires order, intention, intellect, and a relentless pursuit that cannot be achieved with anarchy.
@@bumblebootwiddletoes5185 🥱 It is so tiresome to see people reacting to the idea of anarchism by confidently proclaiming that anarchy would certainly result in terrible conditions X, Y and Z, when X, Y and Z are exactly what lie at the heart of the current statist system of rule, so deeply embedded there that people no longer recognize the state’s institutionalized, criminality, oppression and plunder. Equally tiresome is the claim that anarchy presupposes that people are angels, when it is precisely because anarchists fully recognize people’s capacity for evil that they oppose a system that gives monopoly power over life and death to a cabal of evil politicians and their self-serving financial backers. This “progress” you speak of like going to the stars or higher levels of civilization wouldn’t be because of government, it would be in spite of government. The #1 unnatural killer of man in history is government and here you are putting evil on a pedestal. Government holds people and progress back, it doesn’t propel true progress unless violence, war, theft and coercion is your version of “progress”.
Profoundly EPIC & SUPERB USA Progressive Metal we have here; there’s definitely some Dream Theater vibes on this song & it’s right on the mark🎶 🎵 🎧 🎭 🛌 😴 💭 🤘 🇺🇸
If you haven't, listen to their older works. Starting with The Towers of Avarice and Metamorphosis. Specs of Pictures Burnt Beyond and Fragile Mind are as great. Dark Deceiver has it's great moments too even though I think it was harder to get into. This new song sounds like it could blend in a little bit of their Cynthesis and A Dying Planet projects sound.
@@MichaelBradley1967 Jason worked with his brother on A Dying Planet as well as Cynthesis with Erik Rosvold. There was also an instrumental project named Abnormal Thought Patterns
Around 2017 i was very interested in cryptocurrencies, and slowly i have seen all the technocracy (4th industrial revolution) unfolding and that was scary. My fav artists promote it now.. Some people dont want to see it but it got introduced with the pandemic
First reaction: Hell yeah new Zero Hour! Second Reaction: Why is the vocalist wearing a goddamn don't step on snek shirt, don't be so goddamn Jon Schaffer about it. The riffs are fuckin' sick tho, so I guess there's that, at least
Was excited to see Erik return... but between that shirt and a song titled "Agenda 21" (a 1992 UN sustainable development plan that has morphed into a right-wing conspiracy theory about the UN forcibly relocating suburbanites into high-density 'hobbit homes'), I'm a bit worried about the political content of this album.
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! 😯😮😯🤯I never thought I'd see the day when ZH returned w/a new album! I have been a MASSIVE fan since discovering them in '06, & saw them at a tiny venue in NJ, w/ my now ex gf, & met all 4 guys, Jasun, Troy, Chris, & Mike. & they treated us like every band on Earth should treat their fans! I was friends w/ Jasun & Chris on MS, & then on FascistBook, till, FB banned me for my Conservative views 2+ yrs ago!😡🤬 Anyway, I love what I've heard from this so far, & can't wait to get this album! The timing is perfect too w/ all this NWO, WEF, GR, bullshit currently happening!🤔🤨
Could it possibly - perhaps - be that right-wingers just so happen to believe and say things that a) aren't proven and/or b) are hateful/defamatory a lot more than centrists and those on the left do? Social media companies don't ban people for "conservative" viewpoints like lower taxes, small government, strong military/borders, etc. They ban them for comments & posts that are unproven/false and/or hateful/defamatory. A true conservative knows how to have a rational, civilized conversation about theories and policies without proclaiming unproven things to be true and without being a bigot. Fascists, ethnonationalists, theocrats, etc, aren't "conservatives."
@@bumblebootwiddletoes5185 WRONG!!!! & FASCISTBOOK DID IN FACT BAN ME & MILLIONS OF OTHER CONSERVATIVES FOR OUR PATRIOTISM & POLITICAL VIEWS! & ANYTHING FUCKERBERG DISAGREES W/, HE HAS HIS BOOT-LICKING LACKEY MINIONS DELETE! & IT'S ACTUALLY THE LEFTISTS WHO CANNOT BE CIVIL! & EVERYTHING I SAY IS TRUTH, I DON'T LIE, UNLIKE THE LEFTIST MEDIA & THE FOOLS WHO SWALLOW EVERY BULLSHIT LIE & PROPGANDA FILLED TIRADE THEY SPEW DAILY!
Freedom of thought? You have the freedom to disagree bruh. Ironic that you are missing the point of the track. Btw - "Progressive" Metal has nothing to do with a Political Ideology. That's like saying "I'm a social person" means I'm a Socialist.
Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to announce the release of "Agenda 21", the new studio album from the recently reformed progressive metal band Zero Hour, on May 13, 2022. Original members Jasun Tipton (guitars) and Erik Rosvold (vocals) have recruited bassist Andreas Blomqvist (Seventh Wonder) and drummer Roel van Helden to join them on this new chapter for Zero Hour. Pre-order/save "Agenda 21" HERE: orcd.co/agenda21
Originally formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in '90s by Jasun and his brother Troy, Zero Hour released six studio albums from 1998 to 2008. Their self-titled debut (1998), "The Towers of Avarice" (2001), "Metamorphosis" (2003), "A Fragile Mind" (2005), "Specs of Pictures Burnt Beyond" (2006), and "Dark Deceiver" (2008). The genesis of Zero Hour was to create heavy, melodic, dark, intricate music with influences from diverse influences like the DIO-led years of Rainbow, The Pat Metheny Group, and Dream Theater.
Zero Hour dissolved after the release of their 2008 album "Dark Deceiver" when Troy Tipton suffered an arm injury that prevented him from playing bass. After Jasun and Erik got back together to start the band back up, they recruited drummer Roel van Helden. Jasun and Roel had become friends after Roel’s group at the time, Sun Caged and Zero Hour played a gig as direct support for Liquid Tension Experiment. They stayed in contact and years later, Jasun caught up with Roel overseas and they chatted about making music together. Roel was then instrumental in bringing Andreas into the fold as one of Roel’s former bands had toured with Andreas' band Seventh Wonder.
Jasun structured the music for "Agenda 21", tracking the guitars and keys. Roel then arranged the drums and entered Kohlekeller Studios to record the drums with Kai Stahlenberg. Andreas followed by arranging and recording his bass at Cross Back Studios. Erik Rosvold wrote the lyrics for the songs on "Agenda 21" with the vocal melodies arranged by Erik and Jasun together as the vocals were recorded.
Progressive metal fans will find much to celebrate on Zero Hour's fantastic return album, "Agenda 21"!
“Agenda 21” Tracklisting:
1. Democide
2. Technocracy
3. Stigmata
4. Memento Mori
5. Agenda 21
6. Patient Zero
Total length: 50.58
LINE-UP:
Erik Rosvold - Vocals
Jasun Tipton - Guitars and Keyboards
Andreas Blomqvist- Bass
Roel van Helden - Drums
Social Media:
facebook.com/zerohourtowers
instagram.com/zerohourtowers
Very cool song, I'm diggin' it alot!
@@jeffdupas9933 , me too!
Love Erik's VERY patriotic lyrics & shirt too, BTW! MAGA & FJB, brother!
I can't believe this band will return one day, they are truely a tech-prog pioneer , and one of the most creative band I've ever heard, Jasun Tipton is a genius
Automatic buy for me. LOVE ZERO HOUR. Towers of Avarice is still one my all-time favorite (technical) progressive metal albums.
Same
Definite Buy. Zero Hour are an underrated Prog Metal Gem
So great and Erik sounds amazing! 🤘🏻
Niiiiiiiice!!! This is the Zero Hour I love and missed!! Great work everyone!! Love the story, too! I can’t wait to hear the whole album!!!!
I didn't know how much I've missed this sound. So glad the band is back and continuing their unique approach to prog.
That bass sounds so good! You rock Andreas! Great song looking forward to the album!
Wow🤘💜🤘💜🤘💜love the bassssssss🤘💜🤘💜🤘💜
United in metal worldwide
Love it! My man on bass from Seventh Wonder (a highly underrated band!!). If the rest of the album is like this track could be a Top 11 contender for 2022!
Fantastic song, musicianship and lyrics!
incredible, wow so happy to find this band again
It´s great to see that Zero Hour is back. The new album is great.
Greetings from Brazil.
May 13th is around 16168 listens of this track on repeat :-P I could live with that.
Fantastic music
Andrea's bass playing style is so recognizable here.
Love to see him playing again.
Superb track, The Towers of Avarice is one of my Favourite albums; really looking forward to the new album. UK tour ?
I LOVE it!!!! The band sounds fantastic.
Now I don't have to miss this band anymore.
This is super! Man I missed you guys!
very cool signing !
Hell yes, welcome back and I'll be getting this album ASAP.
That voice!!! A new ZH album is just incredible.
P-Town/Bay Area represent 😎👍🏼
Saw these guys live at Slims! I think it was an All That Remains show - definitely remembered them though. 🤘🏼😑🤘🏼
Profoundly uniquely rockin in a kool way!!!!!
So glad to see you back! One of my favorite prog-metal bands. I have all of your albums. Cheers!
ooh..getting chills here..big Towers vibe..
Wow so good 👍
Awesome !!
This New Track iz A Stand Out. It represents today's Rock Era. Very Ear Grabbing an this weeks Heaviest Drop!!! Welcome to PM Turntable.
beautiful song.
Andreas is the beast bass player of the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent
Oh I missed these guys lml
Unique band!!
Damn, it's like listening to Towers again. They haven't lost a beat.
I was wondering where the third Cynthesis album was. I can accept this.
Love that your covering these topics in metal. Finally a metal band that isn’t full of statists and lefties. Keep it up. I know Beneath the Massacre covered tyrannical government etc as well.
Erik has always been an amazing lyricist. Rebirth and Voice Of Reason have some of the best and most reflective lyrics I've ever come across in Metal. TTOA also has some very strong lyrics as well
Statists? Authoritarians? "The state" has a role in every type of government. Are you a "stateless righty?" A night's watchman type of anarchist who trusts absolutely no one (because deep down you can't be trusted)? Off-the-grid prepper? A follower of Alex Jones? Social Darwinism is the worst. A stateless system is, at best, a decentralized, orderless society stuck in the 1800s with zero chance of progressing in any way. The purpose of humanity isn't to simply live and die - it's to work towards higher levels of civilization by gaining and using knowledge and technology so that one day humans can populate other worlds, become immortal beings, and even cross into new universes. This requires order, intention, intellect, and a relentless pursuit that cannot be achieved with anarchy.
@@bumblebootwiddletoes5185 🥱 It is so tiresome to see people reacting to the idea of anarchism by confidently proclaiming that anarchy would certainly result in terrible conditions X, Y and Z, when X, Y and Z are exactly what lie at the heart of the current statist system of rule, so deeply embedded there that people no longer recognize the state’s institutionalized, criminality, oppression and plunder.
Equally tiresome is the claim that anarchy presupposes that people are angels, when it is precisely because anarchists fully recognize people’s capacity for evil that they oppose a system that gives monopoly power over life and death to a cabal of evil politicians and their self-serving financial backers. This “progress” you speak of like going to the stars or higher levels of civilization wouldn’t be because of government, it would be in spite of government. The #1 unnatural killer of man in history is government and here you are putting evil on a pedestal. Government holds people and progress back, it doesn’t propel true progress unless violence, war, theft and coercion is your version of “progress”.
At last! This is goood!
hell ya!!!!!!!!!! Love it, my bros! \m/
Profoundly EPIC & SUPERB USA Progressive Metal we have here; there’s definitely some Dream Theater vibes on this song & it’s right on the mark🎶 🎵 🎧 🎭 🛌 😴 💭 🤘 🇺🇸
If you haven't, listen to their older works. Starting with The Towers of Avarice and Metamorphosis. Specs of Pictures Burnt Beyond and Fragile Mind are as great. Dark Deceiver has it's great moments too even though I think it was harder to get into.
This new song sounds like it could blend in a little bit of their Cynthesis and A Dying Planet projects sound.
So GOOOOD!!!
This is proof you don't need to down-tune your guitar 4 tones to make music.
Remember these guys from back in the day, had their cds
Is this the California band? No releases since 2008 if it is.
@@MichaelBradley1967 yep. they have some other related project though, like Cynthesis
@@MichaelBradley1967 Jason worked with his brother on A Dying Planet as well as Cynthesis with Erik Rosvold. There was also an instrumental project named Abnormal Thought Patterns
What a great news. Leggende del post prog metal.
Hell yes, that is great stuff!
Yes!
Can't believe they are back. Vocalist is fucking based as fuck.
🎶🎤🎸🎶👏👏👏👍👍
The vocals are buried in the mix. How could such an oversight happen? Needs to be completely remixed.
I agree, Erik has a great voice but he's mixed too low here
Around 2017 i was very interested in cryptocurrencies, and slowly i have seen all the technocracy (4th industrial revolution) unfolding and that was scary. My fav artists promote it now.. Some people dont want to see it but it got introduced with the pandemic
demon hunter - "gunfight" ...yeh, it's gonna get a lot worse before anything gets better, materially speaking.
- Tato, tato, co to jest synkopa?
- Pacz
Next Year Cynthesis third album please
holy shit, no way.
Interesting to say at least
First reaction: Hell yeah new Zero Hour!
Second Reaction: Why is the vocalist wearing a goddamn don't step on snek shirt, don't be so goddamn Jon Schaffer about it.
The riffs are fuckin' sick tho, so I guess there's that, at least
Was excited to see Erik return... but between that shirt and a song titled "Agenda 21" (a 1992 UN sustainable development plan that has morphed into a right-wing conspiracy theory about the UN forcibly relocating suburbanites into high-density 'hobbit homes'), I'm a bit worried about the political content of this album.
Why did Metallica write a track called "Don't Tread On Me"?
What happened in 1775?
What's the "point" of the lyrics in this ZH track?
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! 😯😮😯🤯I never thought I'd see the day when ZH returned w/a new album! I have been a MASSIVE fan since discovering them in '06, & saw them at a tiny venue in NJ, w/ my now ex gf, & met all 4 guys, Jasun, Troy, Chris, & Mike. & they treated us like every band on Earth should treat their fans! I was friends w/ Jasun & Chris on MS, & then on FascistBook, till, FB banned me for my Conservative views 2+ yrs ago!😡🤬 Anyway, I love what I've heard from this so far, & can't wait to get this album! The timing is perfect too w/ all this NWO, WEF, GR, bullshit currently happening!🤔🤨
Could it possibly - perhaps - be that right-wingers just so happen to believe and say things that a) aren't proven and/or b) are hateful/defamatory a lot more than centrists and those on the left do? Social media companies don't ban people for "conservative" viewpoints like lower taxes, small government, strong military/borders, etc. They ban them for comments & posts that are unproven/false and/or hateful/defamatory. A true conservative knows how to have a rational, civilized conversation about theories and policies without proclaiming unproven things to be true and without being a bigot. Fascists, ethnonationalists, theocrats, etc, aren't "conservatives."
@@bumblebootwiddletoes5185 WRONG!!!! & FASCISTBOOK DID IN FACT BAN ME & MILLIONS OF OTHER CONSERVATIVES FOR OUR PATRIOTISM & POLITICAL VIEWS! & ANYTHING FUCKERBERG DISAGREES W/, HE HAS HIS BOOT-LICKING LACKEY MINIONS DELETE! & IT'S ACTUALLY THE LEFTISTS WHO CANNOT BE CIVIL! & EVERYTHING I SAY IS TRUTH, I DON'T LIE, UNLIKE THE LEFTIST MEDIA & THE FOOLS WHO SWALLOW EVERY BULLSHIT LIE & PROPGANDA FILLED TIRADE THEY SPEW DAILY!
Необычно.
Its a bit weird to see my guitar teacher in a music video
A progressive metal band with some very regressive tendencies… 🙄
What’s that “liberty or dēāth,don’t tread on me’ t-shirt for,bruh? 😅
Freedom of thought?
You have the freedom to disagree bruh.
Ironic that you are missing the point of the track.
Btw - "Progressive" Metal has nothing to do with a Political Ideology. That's like saying "I'm a social person" means I'm a Socialist.
Like the band, but not too fond of the lyrics/voice of the singer. For me, that's their weakest link.
Don't like that kind of guitar tone. It sounds like a Rockman Sustainor.
какая муть...
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