ANCIIENTS Win Second JUNO Award
Posted on March 31, 2025
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After soul searching through the Canadian wilderness for the past eight years, once again, Anciients have reached the summit of progressive metal. The heavy, heady and heartfelt Canucks won Metal / Hard Music Album of the Year at the 55th annual JUNO Awards for their latest album Beyond the Reach of the Sun. Spiritbox, Devin Townsend, Kittie and Striker were also nominated.
“We are completely ecstatic about winning the JUNO Award for Best Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year”, says Anciients’ vocalist and guitarist Kenny Cook. “Just being nominated alongside the other legendary nominees was huge for us. We never fathomed we could win it, but we are over the moon with excitement and surprised that we did. Thank you to the JUNO Committee for choosing Beyond the Reach of the Sun as Canada’s best Metal/Hard Music Album of 2024/25. It is a massive honor for us.”
Beyond the Reach of the Sun is available now on Season of Mist.
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Listen to Anciients perform “Melt the Crown” live on CBC Radio.
While Anciients were on hand to accept this year’s award, when the band learned they won their first JUNO back in 2018, they were in Vienna, roughly 8,000 miles away from their Vancouver home base, where they were still wiping the sludge from their eyes after another blazing headline show.
Later this summer, Cook, steady drummer Mike Hannay and the band’s new axe men Brock MacInnes and Rory O’Brien are heading back across the pond for Bristol’s ArcTanGent Festival. They’ll then make their long-awaited return to the States for the 23rd edition of ProgPower USA.
“The hiatus is over”, Cook says. “We’re ready to hit it hard”.
Anciients 2025 Summer Festival Dates
August 15 – Bristol, UK @ ArcTanGent Festival [TICKETS]
September 4 – Atlanta, GA @ ProgPowerUSA [TICKETS]
Praise for Beyond the Reach of the Sun
“It’s a welcome return from a band still at the top of their game” – Exclaim!
“…another classic album” – Vancouver Sun
“One of the heaviest prog metal bands of all time” – Loudwire (Best of 2024
“a welcome return and striking evolution of the Anciients sound and wondrous progressive metal showcase” – Angry Metal Guy (Best of 2024)
“A majestic mind-trip” – No Clean Singing (Best of 2024)
“Anciients have never been better” – MetalSucks (Best of 2024)
“An obvious prog metal masterpiece” – Blabbermouth
“Anciients deliver their message with power, finesse and soul” – New Noise
“A pure hit, a solid 10/10 and will no doubt be summiting many people’s album of the year lists” – Everything is Noise
“Imagine the strongest moments of Voice Of The Void (“Ibex Eye”) and Heart Of Oak (“Raise the Sun”) and you’ll have an idea of what Beyond The Reach Of The Sun is like: nearly an hour of top-notch progressive metal” – Heavy Music HQ (Album of the Week)
“Every note seems calculated, and each track interconnected, but yet the album breathes, and deeply. This is indeed a new pinnacle of Progressive Metal, and the band carries that flag high” – Metal Temple
“Anciients are probably the most talented prog band out there” – Metal Bite
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