Seventh Station presents their mesmerizing new EP, “On Shoulders of Giants”, now confirmed for February 21st, 2025, release through Dutch progressive/avant metal label Layered Reality Productions.
Formed and led by Slovenia-based guitarist Dimitri Alperovich, with Turkish keyboardist Eren Başbuğ (mostly known from his work with Dream Theater, Jordan Rudess), Israeli vocalist Davidavi Dolev (Subterranean Masquerade), Ukrainian-Israeli bass player Alexy Polyanski (Jerusalem Academy Of Music And Dance), and Slovenian drummer Grega Plumbeger (Cordura), Seventh Station is always a home for aspiring and experimental artistry with a great passion for challenges and theatrics. Despite the global spread of the members, Alperovich successfully gathered the musicians he believes to be the exact suit for the band’s music, spanning through the USA, Slovenia, and the Middle East, and later, performed in Europe.
Following the intuitive “Between Life & Dreams” (2016) and its dark, calculated, and frenzied successor Heal “The Unhealed” (2022), the radically artistic “On Shoulders of Giants” reinforces how Seventh Station continues striding towards an authentic strict, endeavoring on fulfilling themselves as genuine authors, truthful to their craft and distinguished by their composition technique with each member recognized internationally for their former work in the world of progressive and classical music. Here, the band has taken their unconventionality up a notch, revealing re-imagined works of the 20th century modern composers through a colorful gratitude of the band’s classical heritage.
Rejecting a contagious climate of separationism, “On Shoulders of Giants” is led by the motivation to pioneer in crafting a free-thinking art-metal, defying a reality of sustainable war, immutable radicalism, attention-based economy, and conformist collectivism. Reimagining works of classical composers who were known as nonconformists and freethinkers, Seventh Station quotes all with an artistically colorful twist into contemporary metal as a medium, along with the spirit of the underground scene as an artistic resistance, and the music itself as an opposite to the disposable culture of the instant.
Exploring stories sung in gibberish, Portuguese, and German, “On Shoulders of Giants” is a meditated record, unconquered by trends or fashions, built for audiences with an admiration of unconventional music, for followers of bands such as Spastic Ink and Secret Chiefs 3, but also for those who love their prog pushed to the limits: humorous, full of tantrums and a recognition of a cartoonish reality, a tightly packed experience and a strong eccentric message of self-identity.
The bass and vocals were recorded by Tom Goldstein at Tom Goldstein’s Studio, (Haifa, Israel), electric guitars were recorded at Dmitri Alperovich’s home studio (Brežice, Slovenia), keyboards were recorded at Eren Başbuğ’s home studio (Ankara, Turkey), and the drums, percussion, and acoustic guitars were recorded by Matej Gobec at Cosmosonic Studios (Ljubljana, Slovenia), where Gobec also mixed, and mastered the record, with special guest trumpets by Tandoruk Yalçın on “Nagasaki Kisses”, recorded at Studio79 in Berlin, Germany. “On Shoulders of Giants” is completed with photography by Luka Rudman, illustrations by Disturbing Grace Designs, and design by Tom de Wit at Layered Reality Productions.
The EP’s lead single, “Three Days in Dresden” is an interpretation of a Shostakovich piece, showcases a collision of 20th century modern music and progressive metal intensity.
Keyboardist Eren Başbuğ states: “We pick up right back up from our last record and we switch to the left lane on the Autobahn jumping right on the action. This first track is almost like a trailer for what’s about to hit you in the face in the rest of the record. With ‘On Shoulders of Giants’, we are thrilled to share our celebration and respect of our classical heritages, and sail the vibrant seas of our combined eclectic musical spectrums”.
Watch the video for “Three Days in Dresden” below and stream the track at Spotify here.
“On Shoulders of Giants” will be released February 21st, 2025, digitally and on CD through Layered Reality Productions. Find preorders at Bandcamp here and the label webshop here.
Tracklist:
1. Three Days in Dresden
2. Seid nüchtern und wachet
3. Tropical Limbo
4. Melodia Sentimental
5. Nagasaki Kisses
Additional videos from the EP will drop over the weeks ahead.
Seventh Station is already booking festival appearances and live events throughout 2025 in support of the EP with more in the works.
Festivals 2025:
4/13/2025 Art Rock Festival 2025 – Reichenbach, DE
11/13/2025 HRH Prog Festival 2025 – Great Yarmouth, UK
Weblinks:
www.seventh-station.com
www.facebook.com/SeventhStation
