Artist: AUTUMN HOUR
Album: DETHRONED (DIGI)

Release date: 2010
Media type: CD

AUTUMN HOUR as individuals have been involved with the recording, touring and teaching aspects of the music industry for many years. Vocalist Alan Tecchio forged – as already mentioned - his career touring and recording seven CDs with 80’s thrash/power metalheads HADES, two of which also featured Lescinsky on drums. Alan did one CD with the unique, progressive Texas act WATCHTOWER as well, and he fronted the doom/power band NON-FICTION touring the world and releasing three CDs with them in the early 90’s. It was through NON-FICTION that Alan met Justin, as their bands had played a number of shows together. Alan recorded two CDs in 2005 and 2007 with SEVEN WITCHES, which is how Clint Arent came into the fold, since he had recorded and played out with that band. Arent also plays in Metal Mike’s PAINMUSEUM. Musically speaking outside of AH, both Clint (School of Rock) and Justin (privately) have a background teaching music, and Dave owns two rehearsal studios and practices ceaselessly. Alan just hums, screams and whistles to himself a lot. We’re not sure what’s up with that.

They all were joined forces in the spring of 2008 to form AUTUMN HOUR. Since that time the band has been on a creative journey that has culminated in their fierce and dynamic debut recording: “dethroned.”

The origins of the band can be traced back to the summer of 2003 when Tecchio and Jurman wrote about a dozen somber, acoustic songs together. It took until 2008, but eventually these songs morphed into a group dynamic with the addition of Lescinsky and Arent. The quartet deconstructed some of the 2003 material and also wrote new, heavier songs. The results transcend genre but the majority of the songs have strong metal music roots.

At the same time, “dethroned” is an album that boasts many textures, tones and ideas. A concept CD, the premise of the story is based around ideas developed by Ray Kurzweil in his ground-breaking book “The Singularity Is Near.” Taking forward-thinking concepts like strong artificial intelligence, exponential technological development, and nanotechnology, AH has woven their own shadowy, sorrowful tale of a potential future.

“dethroned” is a songbook of utter, worldwide devastation, and an aftermath in which technology tries to save the human race from extinction. The story is told in three parts: Part I: Singularity In The Making, Part II: Endgame, and Part III: The Machine Kind. The crushingly clear sound of this musical tale was devised through the keen production talents of Jon “Jonny Rod” Ciorciari (Exodus, Six Foot Sissy, Forman, Sicks Deep). Ciorciari helmed the tracking and mixing of “dethroned” at his J-Rod Productions facility in New City, New York. He perfectly captured the dark, haunting, and, at times, brutal moods of the story itself.

TRACKLIST:

Part I – Singularity In The Making
1. OBLON
2. END USER
3. TECHCCELERATION (THE MACHINE SPEAKS)
4. HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN (EURYTHMICS-Cover)

Part II – Endgame
5. FADE OUT
6. UNBELIEVABLE (THE MIND SPEAKS)
7. DETHRONED
8. HOW WERE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW?

Part III – The Machine Kind
9. EVERY DAY (THE BODY SPEAKS)
10.TRANSCEND
11.THE PAST (THE HEART SPEAKS)

European Bonustracks:
12.REBIRTH
13.RAFI
14.HOW WERE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW? (Acoustic)