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Produced by Live Nation, the Canadian tour kicks off October 5 in Victoria, BC at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre, through to Winnipeg’s Canada Life Centre on October 18.Ī new era of hope, survival, and prosperity comes calling with the release of CRASH OF THE CROWN, Styx’s new “masterpiece” studio album, which was written pre-pandemic and recorded during the trying times of the pandemic. Young, meanwhile, says he “had in my mind we should’ve been doing this awhile ago, but now it’s the 40th anniversary of The Grand Illusion, so wouldn’t it be great if we had a record that had some resonance with our heyday but nonetheless was reflecting our current lineup and their capabilities to perhaps go beyond what we did then, and here we are.STYX, the multimegamillion-selling rock band that has forged an indelible legacy both on record and onstage, return to Canada in 2022 for a cross-country live tour alongside very special guests NANCY WILSON’S HEART. First was the discovery of a fifth moon around Pluto, which was named Styx - not explicitly after the band, but it did introduce the group to New Horizons, which discovered the moon and befriended the band and “helped us out with the mythology and images and science of it,” according to Shaw. There finally came a point where it was, ‘Let’s bring everybody in.'”īoth Shaw and fellow guitarist James “ J.Y.” Young recognized the fortuitous timing. I’m sure there were some discussions on the bus when I wasn’t around. I think everybody might have been overhearing little playbacks and this and that and the other and they were getting curious. “The idea of me coming to everybody else and saying, ‘Look, Will and I have an idea for us to do an album about a mission to Mars’ wasn’t something I could confidently go in and talk about. “We kinda snuck around for a long time,” Shaw acknowledges.
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It didn’t take long for it to feel like this should be for Styx.” But Shaw decided to keep quiet until he and Evankovich came up with more ideas, which eventually turned into a thematic song cycle about the first manned mission to Mars. “Will came up with this song called ‘Locomotive,’ and then I wrote some parts to it and some more lyric and we demoed it out and suddenly it started feeling like a story of some kind.
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“It’s been kind of secretive from the very beginning,” Shaw tells Billboard. The Mission was under wraps - not only from fans, but for a time from Shaw’s bandmates. The album - whose opening track “Gone Gone Gone” is premiered below - was recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, co-produced and co-written with Will Evankovich, a longtime collaborator of Tommy Shaw‘s in the Shaw/Blades band and who also plays with The Guess Who. The group will release The Mission on June 16 - four days before Styx begins its summer tour with REO Speedwagon. Forty years after it gave us The Grand Illusion, Styx is flying to Mars on its first new album in 14 years.