7 October 2026 – Wreck of Time Rebuild an Old Album Dream on Seventh Day

Brazilian-American progressive-metal group Wreck of Time release "Seventh Day" today, the second single from their reconstructed full-length Mind Sludge and another collaboration with Brazilian bassist Luís Mariutti of Angra and Shaman fame. The project is unusual because Mind Sludge is not a conventional new album and not merely a remaster either.

Vocalist, guitarist and producer Rafael Macedo says the material was originally intended to become the band's first album more than two decades ago but never reached the form they wanted. Rather than dusting off old recordings and increasing the volume, Wreck of Time have gone back and rebuilt the music entirely, with Macedo producing and mixing and Tony Lindgren mastering at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden.

"Seventh Day" follows September single "One Way Street" and gives another indication of how the older compositions have been translated through the musicians they became later. Progressive metal is particularly suited to this sort of archaeological reconstruction because unfinished ideas have a habit of remaining irritatingly alive in the composer's head. Twenty years is admittedly a long revision cycle. At least nobody can accuse Wreck of Time of submitting the first draft.