(Prog) Italian outfit Syndone have announced their next album will be titled Eros & Thanatos. No release date has been set for the 11-track recording, but the band have confirmed it'll feature guest appearances from guitarist Steve Hackett and former Moody Blues flautist Ray Thomas.

The band's keyboardist Nik Comoglio says: "We make very expressive and quite symphonic music, so that one day I began to define it as movierock. Sometimes it's really comparable with film scoring and the idea of the concept album - not a more segmented speech of unrelated songs.

"The concept album represents the progressive tradition - it's good for us to join the old style for respecting the genre but the main goal of Syndone is to go beyond." Read more here.