{"id":14507,"date":"2026-05-09T06:13:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/?p=14507"},"modified":"2026-05-09T06:13:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:13:48","slug":"alternative-4-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/?p=14507","title":{"rendered":"Alternative 4 &#8211; The Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Alternative 4 &#8211; The Brink<\/strong><br>Label: Prophecy Productions ?\u2013 Pro 128-2<br>Format: CD, Album<br>Country: Germany<br>Released: 2012<br>Genre: Rock<br>Style: Doom Metal, Prog Rock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alternative 4 is Duncan Patterson&#8217;s (ex-Anathema, ex-Antimatter, \u00cdon) latest brainchild. With the band name derived from the eponymous Anathema album from 1998, the musical and atmospheric direction of this band is given: a solid rock foundation enriched with painful piano and string arrangements, sometimes on the verge of ambient music, sometimes offering the big influence of the rather dark and abysmal side of Pink Floyd. All this can already be witnessed on last year&#8217;s debut album \u00abThe Brink\u00bb which now receives its re-release to mark the beginning of Alternative 4\u2019s and Prophecy\u2019s future collaboration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alternative 4 - The Brink\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PO0qYsVyiH0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/seller\/gradual\/profile\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"128\" src=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-1024x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-1024x128.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-500x63.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-1140x143.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative 4 &#8211; The BrinkLabel: Prophecy Productions ?\u2013 Pro 128-2Format: CD, AlbumCountry: GermanyReleased: 2012Genre: RockStyle: Doom Metal, Prog Rock Alternative 4 is Duncan Patterson&#8217;s (ex-Anathema, ex-Antimatter, \u00cdon) latest brainchild. With the band name derived from the eponymous Anathema album from 1998, the musical and atmospheric direction of this band is given: a solid rock foundation enriched with painful piano and string arrangements, sometimes on the verge of ambient music, sometimes offering the big influence of the rather dark and abysmal side of Pink Floyd. All this can already be witnessed on last year&#8217;s debut album \u00abThe Brink\u00bb which now receives its re-release to mark the beginning of Alternative 4\u2019s and Prophecy\u2019s future collaboration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1033,118],"tags":[9,1069],"class_list":["post-14507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cd","category-distribution","tag-doom-metal","tag-prog-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14509,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507\/revisions\/14509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}