- Threshold (band)( Threshold )【 13 albums 123 lyrics 】
- Threshold is a progressive metal band, formed in Surrey, UK in the late 1980s.
History
1988 - 1992
Threshold began their career in 1988, initially playing covers of metal groups like Ratt and Testament. As they continued playing together, they began to write their own songs, and eventually stopped playing covers altogether. Early recordings were released locally on cassette under the band name 'If Not, Why?'. They played their first gig at The Compasses in Egham, Surrey, with Jon Jeary on vocals and Ian Bennett on bass. In 1992, they signed their first record deal, and after adding vocalist Damian Wilson to the group alongside guitarists Karl Groom and Nick Midson, bassist Jon Jeary and drummer Tony Grinham, produced their first commercial recording, 'Intervention,' which was released on a Dutch progressive rock compilation album. Shortly afterwards, keyboardist Richard West joined the band, and he remains with them to this day.
1993 - 1999
The band's debut album, Wounded Land, was released in 1993, taking its name and some thematic elements from Stephen R. Donaldson's novel of the same name. Wilson was unavailable to join the band for the follow-up tour, and so Glynn Morgan was recruited to replace him. He sang on the band's 1994 second recording, Psychedelicatessen, which spawned a music video for the song 'Innocent,' the band's first. The following year, Morgan and the band toured Europe and recorded some of their performances for the short live album, Livedelica.
Threshold took a break before their next effort, during which time Morgan and then-drummer Jay Micciche left to form Mindfeed. Rather than finding an unknown singer to replace him, the band turned again to Damian Wilson, and together they recorded 1997's Extinct Instinct. They followed this with another tour of Europe, this time supported by Enchant. Additionally, Johanne James, the band's current drummer, played with them for the first time during this tour. Wilson was unavailable for their next album, so former Sargant Fury vocalist Andrew 'Mac' McDermott, joined to record Clone and would remain with them until 2007.
2000 - 2005
In 2001, Threshold released Hypothetical, which saw Johanne James firmly cemented as the band's permanent drummer. Another lineup change occurred in 2003, when bassist Jon Jeary left and was replaced by Steve Anderson. Around this time the band also re-released their first three studio albums in Special Editions, with bonus tracks, a remastered sound, expanded liner notes and, in the case of Wounded Land and Psychedelicatessen, special CD-ROM content. Their newer albums, starting with Hypothetical, were released in Limited Editions, with similar bonus content. The albums Critical Mass (2002) and Subsurface (2004) followed, interspersed by the double live album and DVD Critical Energy.
2006 – present
Threshold left their longtime label, InsideOut Music, in 2006 to join Nuclear Blast Records. The band released Dead Reckoning which spawned a music video for an edit of the song 'Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams'. The song also appeared on the 2008 movie soundtrack In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. This marks the first occasion of a song by the band appearing in a motion picture.
In July 2007 vocalist Mac left the band and original singer Damian Wilson returned as Threshold's frontman for the first time in nearly a decade for the band's tour dates which extended into 2009.
InsideOut Music released the first official Threshold compilation in November 2007. The album, titled 'The Ravages of Time,' is a two-disc set, covering all of the band's official albums from Wounded Land to Dead Reckoning.
In 2009 the band released a limited edition eight-disc singles box set, including previously unreleased b-sides and brand new re-recordings of old demo songs released in other forms before, including Smile At the Moon, (which was debuted live on the 2009 Essence of Progression Tour), Shifting Sands, Half Way Home and Fist of Tongues.
On 3 August 2011, former vocalist Andrew McDermott died of kidney failure.
On 24 August 2012, Nuclear Blast announced the release of March of Progress. It was the first album to feature Damian Wilson on vocals since 1997. The album was followed on 19 September 2014 by the band's tenth studio album For the Journey.
In February 2017, Pete Morten left Threshold to focus on his own projects.
In March 2017, Threshold announced that they had parted ways with vocalist Damian Wilson. The band stated that they will 'start a new chapter without him' which was unexpected to Wilson but he has told them he respects their decision. Glynn Morgan, the band's former vocalist from 1994 to 1996 replaced Wilson for the album Legends of the Shires released in September 2017. - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
- Album name Release Date Song
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For the Journey
2014
1.Watchtower On The Moon
2.Unforgiven
3.The Box
4.Turned To Dust
5.Lost In Your Memory6.Autumn Red
7.The Mystery Show
8.Siren Sky
9.I Wish I Could -
Clone
2012-10
1.Change
2.Freaks
3.Angels
4.The Latent Gene
5.Lovelorn6.Life's Too Good
7.Goodbye Mother Earth
8.Voyager II
9.Sunrise On Mars -
March of Progress
2012
1.Ashes
2.Return Of The Thought Police
3.Staring At The Sun
4.Liberty Complacency Dependency
5.Colophon
6.The Hours7.That's Why We Came
8.Don't Look Down
9.Coda
10.Rubicon
11.Divinity -
Hypothetical
2009-06
1.Oceanbound
2.Keep My Head
3.Light and Space
4.Turn on Tune In5.The Ravages of Time
6.Sheltering Sky
7.Long Way Home
8.Narcissus -
Dead Reckoning
2007
1.This is Your Life
2.Elusive
3.Hollow
4.Slipstream
5.Pilot in the Sky of Dreams6.Fighting for Breath
7.Disappear
8.Safe to Fly
9.One Degree Down
10.Supermassive Black Hole -
Subsurface
2004-09
1.Stop Dead
2.Pressure
3.The Destruction Of Words
4.Opium
5.Mission Profile6.Ground Control
7.The Art of Reason
8.Flags and Footprints
9.Static
10.What About Me -
Psychedelicatessen
2004-09
1.Devoted
2.Sunseeker
3.A Tension of Souls
4.Into the Light
5.Will to Give6.Under the Sun
7.Babylon Rising
8.He Is I Am
9.Innocent
10.Lost -
Extinct Instinct
2004-09
1.Life Flow
2.Forever
3.Exposed
4.Somatography
5.Eat the Unicorn
6.Virtual Isolation7.The Whispering
8.Lake of Despond
9.Clear
10.Part of the Chaos
11.Segue (Provided)
12.Mansion -
Critical Mass
2004-09
1.Phenomenon
2.Do Unto Them
3.Choices
4.Falling Away
5.Fragmentation6.Echoes of Life
7.Round and Round
8.Avalon
9.Critical Mass
10.New Beginning -
Wounded Land
2002-06
1.Paradox
2.Consume to Live
3.Days of Dearth
4.Sanity's End
5.Surface to Air6.Mother Earth
7.Siege of Baghdad
8.Keep It with Mine
9.Intervention -
Legends of the Shires
1.Lost in Translation
2.The Shire (Part 1)
3.Small Dark Lines4.The Man Who Saw Through Time
5.Stars and Satellites -
European Journey
1.Slipstream - Live
2.The Hours - Live
3.Unforgiven - Live
4.Long Way Home - Live
5.Watchtower on the Moon - Live6.Pilot in the Sky of Dreams - Live
7.Mission Profile - Live
8.The Box - Live
9.Ashes - Live -
Miscellaneous
1.Divinity (Bonus Track)
2.Echoes of Life (Live in Switzerland)
3.Lovelorn (acoustic Version)
4.Freaks (live In Paris)
5.Pilot in the Sky of Dreams (radio edit)
6.Ashes (Edit)7.Pilot in the Sky of Dreams (album version)
8.Coda (Live)
9.Round and Round (acoustic version)
10.Safe to Fly (acoustic version)
11.Snowblind
【Correction of errors in the album information】