Denver tech death merchants Allegaeon have released their cover of Rush deep cut ‘Animate’ on all DSP’s. This is the follow up to their earlier cover of ‘Subdivisions’.

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Guitarist Greg Burgess commented:

“When we settled on Rush to cover during the ‘Proponent’ sessions, I simply couldn’t pick which song to do. ‘Subdivisions’ or ‘Animate.’ Both were favorites for me personally, and both were sort of ‘under the radar’ eg. not ‘Tom Sawyer’ or ‘Spirit of the Radio.’ Where the original idea was to do a cover for a Japanese bonus track, we figured if we did both we could cover a special song for both the Japan AND Europe pressing. Then the powers that be decided to just include ‘Subdivisions’ on the album, and keep ‘Animate’ in reserve for something. Jan 6th, 2018 is the only occurrence of the golden ratio in date form that will occur during our life time. So 1.6.18 seemed like the perfect date to release it in Allegaeon fashion”

‘Subdivisions’, also recorded during the recording sessions for Proponent for Sentience (Metal Blade), which was included on the album, has since become the band’s most streamed track on Spotify. Allegeaon ended 2017 by touring with Ne Obliviscaris and is hitting the studio to record a new album in 2018 with David Otero (Cattle Decapitation).