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ANTIMATTER: 'Alternative Matter' Due Out End Of November

October 15, 2010

On November 29 in Europe (January 11, 2011 in the U.S.),ten years after the recordings of the band's debut album, "Saviour", ANTIMATTER will release "Alternative Matter", a retrospective of another kind. This is not a standard best-of album, but a compilation of exclusively unreleased recordings and alternative versions from the archives of the band, compiled by ANTIMATTER mastermind Mick Moss with care and passion. "Alternative Matter" features demo and acoustic versions of well-known ANTIMATTER songs, live recordings, remixes, and also new recordings which have been conceived especially for this compilation. And in their entirety all these songs tell a yet unknown ANTIMATTER story.

After months of intense work on his anniversary compilation, Mick Moss himself is very pleased with its outcome. "The amazing thing about this compilation is that these pieces were set to tape in many different places during a period of over ten years, yet collected together they form a coherent and united new listening experience, a fascinating alternate history that sounds unlike any prior ANTIMATTER album," he said. "I would love to be able to hear this collection in its entirety with fresh ears for the first time, but that's now for the listener to do."

ANTIMATTER is the U.K. project whose recording/touring lineup has included current and former members of ANATHEMA. The group's fourth album, "Leaving Eden", was released in April 2007.

After Duncan Patterson left the band in 2005, Mick Moss gathered a number of guest musicians around him — among others Danny Cavanagh (ANATHEMA) — to record the most depressive and heaviest album of ANTIMATTER's discography. This is attested by the dynamics of "Leaving Eden", the increased use of electric guitars and forceful drumming.

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