On February 16, 2024, Mirror Image Records is reissuing Eynomia’s 2018 debut album, Break Free on CD, as a digital download, and via streaming platforms. The Metal and Prog Rock sound of the album focuses on the vocals of Phyllis Rutter and Chris Bickley’s melodic compositions and guitars.
Break Free was the first recording for a relatively new band hailing from 2015 when Rutter and Bickley met on Facebook and began trading musical ideas. Rutter lived in Minneapolis, where she had won several Minnesota Music Awards and been inducted into the Mid-America Hall of Fame. Bickley was a veteran of Thunderhead, a New Orleans Prog Rock band, and the touring guitarist for Rebel Montez and SNL singer Christine Ohlman.
Bickley called in his long-time friend, drummer Gaetano Nicolosi, a conservatory-trained percussionist living in Italy, as well as keyboardist Jimmy Pitts of NorthTale and Eternity’s End. Rutter suggested the bass player Mike LePond, best known for his work in Symphony X and Silent Assassins.
Break Free was recorded remotely with Eynomia’s members recording their parts in their respective home-towns and forwarding them to band leader Chris Bickley to assemble at his home studio in Connecticut. Robert Romagna mixed and mastered the album at his studio in the Austrian Alps.
The reissue will include one bonus song, “Raise Your Voice,” an upbeat rocker that Bickley wrote specifically for the re-release.
Bickley shares:
It’s about voicing your freedoms and standing up for what you believe in, a really appropriate message for our current climate.
