After several months of writing material for the seventh Knight Area studio album, Gerben Klazinga, Mark Bogert, Pieter van Hoorn and Peter Vink have decided to separate ways with Mark Smit, who has been the lead singer of Knight Area since the beginning of the band in 2003.
Mark Smit has been responsable for the vast majority of the lyrics, lead and backing vocals and has contributed several compositions and keyboard parts. Therefore we want to thank Mark from the bottom of our hearts, we are proud of being a band with him for almost 15 years.

We were looking for a new lead singer the last weeks and we expect to be able to inform you about this in the coming days. We will continue working on our seventh studio album about D-Day, our plans about the new album haven’t changed.

Dear friends,

We have an important update about the new Knight Area album. The theme of this album will be D-Day. We want to give this theme all the grandeur it deserves. We invite you to help us with this by contributing to this ambitious project. Please donate at:

http://www.gogetfunding.com/knightarea

Since we are looking for someone based in the Netherlands this announcement is in Dutch.

Knight Area zoekt met spoed een (on)ervaren gitaar-/basroadie zonder sociaal leven. In het bezit van een tomeloze inzet, goed gevoel voor humor en een uitstekend mentaal incasseringsvermogen. We betalen je in onvergetelijke ervaringen, lauwe maaltijden, fysieke slijtage, slapeloze nachten, afgedankte groupies en onbetaalbare herinneringen. Werktijden variëren, meestal in de weekenden (soms inclusief vrijdagmiddag) en gemiddeld zo één a twee keer per maand (wereld-tournees en doordeweekse inzet in overleg).

Stuur je reactie naar management@knightarea.com of stuur ons een bericht via Facebook of Twitter!

We are extremely proud to tell you that our new album Heaven and Beyond has entered the charts at position 38 for the cd and position 6 for the vinyl! We would like to thank everyone who has made this possible especially our fans!

Knight Area will perform live at the cd store Kroese in Arnhem (Rijnstraat 31) on March 25 around 16:00. It will be a unique event because it is something we haven’t done before, playing in a shop adapted versions of our songs. So if you are looking for a nice place to go shopping and you would like to see something special, check it out! And of course it’s a great opportunity to grab a copy of our new cd or vinyl if you haven’t already done so.

Voor alle Nederlandse fans die alvast een pre-order voor Heaven and Beyond (cd of LP) willen plaatsen hebben wij een samenwerking met Kroese. Uiteraard zijn de cd en de LP te verkrijgen bij onze album release show op 11 februari in De Boerderij in Zoetermeer maar mocht je daar onverhoopt niet bij kunnen zijn dan kan je via onderstaande links een pre-order plaatsen:
link CD: http://www.kroese-online.nl/artikel/3598237/Knight_Area/Heaven_And_Beyond
link LP: http://www.kroese-online.nl/artikel/3614940/Knight_Area/Heaven_And_Beyond_-hq-

EXCITING NEWS! We want to do a disclosure of the new album ‘Heaven and Beyond’. A first track, which represents the album very well, is now available for streaming! ‘Memories’ is a typical neo-progressive Knight Area song characterized by heavy but still melodic guitars, a steady rhythm section, fluent synths, and emotional vocals. Listen to it now and let us know what you think.

Tickets for the release show on February 11th are still available here: http://bit.ly/ticketsknightarea

YouTube: http://bit.ly/memories_yout
Itunes: http://bit.ly/memories_itunes
Apple Music: http://bit.ly/memories_apple
Deezer: http://bit.ly/memories_deezer
Napster: http://bit.ly/memories_napster
Tidal: http://bit.ly/memories_tidal

Soon available on Spotify!

This is what we call ‘f*%^ing great news’ from our friends at Butler Records. For the very first time in the history of Knight Area there will be a very special release:

Exciting! The neo-progressive rock album ‘Heaven and Beyond’ by Knight Area will not only be available on CD. On February 10th, Music On Vinyl will release a limited vinyl edition of the album as well. This edition will be pressed on coloured 180 gr. vinyl and includes the original CD artwork. We can’t wait to have the finished products in our hands!