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WIDDERSHINS: RELEASED TODAY! 

The day has come! Our 8th album Widdershins is officially released today via all major digital platforms as well as on CD – thank you to everyone that pre-ordered the CD packages up until this point – it really was our most successful pre-order to date and meant we can carry on going to make the next album even better – they should all be on their way to you (if you haven’t got them already!) -  thanks! 

Reviews have continued to pour in over the coming days and some of the highlights have included: 

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WIDDERSHINS DETAILS & VINYL LAUNCH TODAY! 

LOADS OF NEWS: LISTEN TO OUR NEW TRACK: SACRAMENT; PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM ON VINYL NOW: 

It’s fantastic to give everyone a little tease of the album with "Sacrament", it’s definitely one of the most rollicking songs we’ve done in a while, however it certainly doesn’t reveal the musical direction of the entire album; it’s not a one-trick pony and has plenty of diverse twists and turns to discover! 

The Vinyl release is going to be fantastic addition, we structured the planning/production of this record with…

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Announcing: Decennium  

 

"Decennium" is a Brand-new compilation celebrating 10 Years of Gandalf's Fist albums, featuring shiny remixes, remasters and even re-recorded bits! This Download & Merch is designed as a "Virtual Setlist" to help support the band given that we have not been able to perform at two high profile gigs this year and now moths are starting to crawl out of our piggy banks!

Check out the Decennium page for more details and to order some fantastic exclusive Decennium merch!

Pre-Order the New Album Today! 

"The Master and the Monkey", our debut demo-come-album, turns 10 in January 2021! To Celebrate a decade of Fist albums, we've created a special edition like no other, a complete re-imagining of the entire record ensures it sits proudly alongside our latest releases! Largely re-recorded from the ground up and featuring a brand new narrative, we present to you: "The (Re)Master and the Monkey" a fantastic new adventure from Gandalf's Fist, available to pre-order in a range of formats NOW! 

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STAKES AT LOW TIDE - OUT NOW 

Our new single “Stakes at Low Tide” a vivid new reimagining of a song that we originally worked on 15 years ago is out NOW! 

Subsequently then appearing on our 2011’s demo-come-album “The Master and the Monkey”, this new take on the song teases what to expect of the upcoming special edition, and ten year anniversary of our debut album. The track is awash with cinematic strings, folky rhythms and pipes and whistles which evoke days of ancient Celtic tribes and the folklore of old. 

The new single has…

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"The Clokkemaker" - Video Premiere 

We’re delighted to premiere the visualisation video for “The Clokkemaker”, a stunning symphonic piece from our forthcoming double album “The Clockwork Prologue.” We’re really proud of this song and it really puts a marker down on where we can go with this newly refreshed lineup! So, to that end, any help you could give in sharing the video would be greatly appreciated! We hope you all enjoy the song as much as we do and we’re looking forward to you hearing the song in the context of the full story of the…

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Announcing "The Clockwork Prologue" 

Prepare to return to Cogtopolis! On the 3-year anniversary of our previous release, we are delighted to announce, and begin pre-orders on, a brand new double album “The Clockwork Prologue.” In a unique twist, the two discs are designed to act as an “expansion pack” to our 2016 Triple album “The Clockwork Fable” taking the combined releases to a seamless 5-disc adventure. 

Using a mix of unused material and brand new songs, “The Clockwork Prologue”, is neither a prequel nor a stand-alone story but somewhere…

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2018 "XMAS" single out now! 

Plucked like a rusty cog from a subterranean cavern, we're releasing this tasty morsel as our "festive" 2018 single as a sneaky peek at our upcoming 2019 album. Perhaps you can recognise some themes and place a wager on what we've got in store! This single version features a separate master from the main album version to well and truly ensure you knock Ol' Saint Nick's socks off! Enjoy! Head over to our bandcamp page now to enjoy in a range of lossless formats!

Road to Darkness Special Edition - PRE-ORDER NOW! 

We are delighted to begin pre-orders of our special deluxe re-issue of our 2011 offering “Road to Darkness”. 

In line with 2017’s special edition release of “Universal Wanderer”  Road to Darkness, has been fully remixed and remastered from the ground up, utilizing new performance takes and bringing the release firmly in line with the sonic palette of 2014’s “A Forest of Fey” and 2016’s “The Clockwork Fable”. 

The record also features many of the original songs revised from their original form, adding…

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"Wanderer" Re-released today! 

Our much-anticipated release, the special edition of "A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer" springs into existence today!

For those of you that have been waiting to get some more of our stuff on CD, well, here's your chance; head over to our official webstore and grab yourself a copy today!

Those of you that aready have the original release from 2013, fear not, we got you covered too! Remember, the album has been completely remixed and remastered from the ground up, with newly recorded parts, brand…

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Album Release & Video 

Behold! Grown men pissing about in a shed with a green screen!

Our new video 'Shadowborn' is taken from our acclaimed 3-CD concept album 'The Clockwork Fable'

(9/10 - "Reduces Rick Wakeman's King Arthur to the level of a Chas & Dave cockney knees-up" - Classic Rock Magazine) 

So, if you want to download the album this very second (of course you do), we would recommend doing so via our bandcamp page! 

Not only will you get the album in the highest possible quality, but also a digital booklet as well…

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Announcing: The Clockwork Fable 

Final Artwork Yet to Be Revealed!

We are delighted to announce “The Clockwork Fable” a Prog-Rock Mind Movie in three oscillations. 

As a follow-up to the acclaimed “A Forest of Fey”, we’ve gone all-out, creating a truly epic triple concept album. 

Set in the fictional world of “Cogtopolis”, each CD of the record serves as a different “act” of the story, with Dean and Luke, along with to-be-announced guest vocalists, providing the singing voices of the inhabitants. However things don’t end there; the…

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New Album Page Launched! 

In case you missed the news (perhaps you were distracted by a passing pigeon/weasel/weasel mounted atop a pigeon), we have announced that the production of the new Fist album is well and truly underway!

Make sure you head over to the "New Project" page, where we'll be constantly updating the studio blog with bits and bobs from the recording process!

To kick things off here's a little teaser video to whet your appetite!

Things are sounding good already!

Cheers,
The lads from the Fist.
 

New Album OUT NOW! 

We've made our new album "A Forest of Fey" available to pre-order early via our store page.   We've enjoyed great support from people reserving their CD's via pre-order in and now the album is availbe worldwide via digital stores as well as on CD for you to...

As independent musicians it also helps us out greatly as it eases the financial burden of having to fund the production,  marketing and distribution of a record ourselves - so we REALLY do appreciate it! The new album is really exciting for us… Read more

New Gandalf’s Fist Album to Feature Members of Nightwish, It Bites, Gryphon, Pendragon & More 

Earlier this year, UK purveyors of Medieval Space Rock – Gandalf’s Fist, announced that work had begun on the follow up to last year’s “A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer” - the album which received critically high praise with Prog/Classic Rock Magazine’s Geoff Barton voting it in his Critic’s Choice list for 2013.
 
But what may be as equally exciting as news of this year’s successor, a seemingly fantastical, forest-themed piece, is the announcement surrounding the guest appearances that are lined up…Read more

New Album Updates 

With the new Gandalf's Fist album production well underway we've decided to open up a little window to the process!

Please feel free to visit the "New Album" page where we've already released some exciting news regarding the project and will be covering everything from album art, guest musicians to lyrics and song samples! 

We'll be updating as we go along - and would like to thank you all for your great feedback on last year's album... we're working hard to make this one even better!!

Have fun - hope you… Read more

GANDALF'S FIST Announce New Line-up; Begin Working on New Album 

Press release 19th May 2014:
UK progressive rock wizards add two new members to their permanent line-up  
 Following on from the critical acclaim of last year’s “A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer” LP, UK's Progressive Rock wizards GANDALF'S FIST have added two new permanent faces to their line-up: Drummer Stefan Hepe and bassist Christopher Ewen. GANDALF'S FIST creative head and founding member Dean Marsh shares the following:
 
  “GANDALF'S FIST are excited to announce the recent line-up change – WeRead more

A Universal Wanderer - Music Video 

A new video for the track "A Universal Wanderer" is available now!
Music taken from the "A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer" Album - which is still available via our store!

The animation 'Sintel', licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, mixes the 'Space Rock' adventurings of Gandalf's Fist with a unique fantasy element; creating a result which, we think, is pretty damn cool!

DRAGON HO!!!

New Animated Video! 

For those of you that haven't seen it yet here's the new animated video for our track "Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet" - Taken from the new album "A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer. Just a bit of "Red-Dwarf" style fun so please like, share and comment! Cheers!

New Album Released! 

The new album, "A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer", is now available for download early via Itunes and a few other digital retailers! Which is a nice little suprise! Confirmation of the Digipaks has come through so those who have pre-ordered should be getting those very soon too!
*UPDATE* - CD Digipaks now in stock!
In other news, tracks from the record are already starting to do the round on radio stations from around the world!
Fantastic.
Hope you guys enjoy the record!!
Cheers,
Dean & Luke

New Album Announced & More Free Music! 

We've just announced our Brand New album-in-the-works: "A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer". Click here to Check it out and listen to samples!
Due to be released late September/Early October, The album is themed around a deep-space signal transmitted from a derelict space station in the far reaches of the galaxy using broken instruments salvaged from a Cargo Bay.

Tracks such as the epic doom-laden jazz of “The Nine Billion Names of God” fit perfectly alongside the anthemic choruses of “Stowaway to the…Read more