That's bad news Heep have had this sort of thing before .. Mick Box has said of the Equtor album "CBS Did a terrible job getting Equator into the shops, We were going out playing, but you couldn't buy the bloody record!" .. I guess time will tell. Just hope they have better fortune with Frontiers. Doesn't sound too promising though aeroplane.
Anyone who was following new music by classic rock and metal artists in the 1990's possibly remembers CMC International Records/Sanctuary Records. People used to poke fun at them for being a dinosaur label, but at least they got singles and albums to radio stations, doing a darn good job of it in the process.
It disappoints me when I see some of the labels classic rock artists are signing with to do new music since a number of them, in my opinion, don't do a thing to help the artist other than providing a label to release the album on.
I should know, I used to have to beg labels and occasionally offer a kidney (or two) just to get ahold of some music from name artists who were on these European labels (or US indie labels). It wasn't even because they didn't like my station(s).
They'd tell me they couldn't afford to send music out and didn't have any plans to do anything with radio.
I ain't liking that if I am in Uriah Heep for 15-20 years and spent thousands of dollars and 6 months to record a new album.
Frontiers is terrible about getting music into stores and to radio stations. I know from experience.
What I predict will happen, and I hope happens, is that some US label will pick up the rights to distribute Heep's record and actually get it into stores in the states.
Frontiers has a lot of "big" clients like Journey, Mr. Big, Nelson and Jeff Scott Soto. However, the ones responsible for helping these bands sell anything in the United States is whatever label ends up getting distribution rights. Frontiers doesn't do squat.
Now I gotta be careful for some rep from Frontiers to come on here and tear me a new one like Tom Werman did.
