Entering Polaris releases new video single “Building Rome in a Day

TOM TEE: “This song is my personal love-letter to the city of Rome; a place which I love dearly. Always the science-fiction fan, I had the idea of a post-human re-discovering humanity's cradle, planet Earth; humanity having spread out through the cosmos and Earth having been lost and forgotten for countless aeons. Exploring and researching there, he learns about the ancient city of Rome, is captivated by its beauty and majesty, and decides to re-create it for all to see; drawing mankind there again to rediscover where it once began.”

The two new records are two very different sides of the same coin – one is electric, energetic, heavy and progressive, while the other is acoustic, haunting and melancholic, with piano, (real) string sections, choirs and classical percussion.

The brand new Progressive Metal double-album, featuring 19 songs and more than 1,5 hours of music, will be released on 2 CDs and as a luxury 3-LP trifold package.

The vinyl edition is limited to 250 copies.

Working as a guitarist, producer and songwriter in a host of bands through the years, such as Ostrogoth, Thorium and others, Tom Tee launched Entering Polaris in 2018 with the debut album ‘Godseed’. The idea behind Entering Polaris is to realise a long overdue dream: creating music that not only unites influences from all the kinds of music Tom has loved since his teenage years, but which also brings together a plethora of stunning vocalists from all across the scene.

Due to the large number of songs that are continuously being written – and born from the aspiration to up the ante and take the bold and ambitious route – the decision was made to write and produce not one, not two or even three, but four full-length albums in one year.

These records are:

Album 1: Atlantean Shores – six-string guitars; melodic/progressive Metal

Album 2: And Silently the Age Did Pass – fully acoustic; dark and atmospheric

Album 3: Myths in Motion – seven-string guitars; modern, heavy and progressive

Album 4: Songs of Ivory and Obsidian – all piano; delicate and emotional

The first two of these records were released in June 2023, comprising the albums ‘Atlantean Shores’ & ‘And Silently The Age Did Pass’.