ARCH/MATHEOS Confirmed For Germany's KEEP IT TRUE XV Festival

ARCH/MATHEOS — the new progressive rock band featuring FATES WARNING/OSI guitarist Jim Matheos and former FATES WARNING singer John Arch — has been confirmed for the Keep It True XV festival, set to take place April 27-28, 2012 ay Tauberfrankenhalle in
Lauda-Königshofen, Germany. The group's setlist will include early FATES WARNING material performed live for the first time in Europe with Arch on vocals.

ARCH/MATHEOS' lineup for the Keep It True XV festival will be as follows:

John Arch (vocals)
Jim Matheos (guitar)
Frank Aresti (guitar)
Joey Vera (bass)
Bobby Jarzombek (drums)

Keep It True XV festival final billing:

* ARCH/MATHEOS (USA)
* PSYCHOTIC WALTZ (USA)
* ANVIL (CAN)
* NWOBHM ANNIVERSARY SHOW PART II (feat. ROXXCALIBUR and lots of original vocalists)
* SWORD (CAN)
* SLOUGH FEG (USA)
* TYTAN (UK)
* OZ (FIN/SWE)
* TENSION (USA)
* MYSTIC FORCE (USA)
* ADRAMELCH (ITA)
* OSTROGOTH (BEL)
* WITCH CROSS (DEN)
* MYSTIK (USA)
* SENTINEL BEAST (USA)
* PORTRAIT (SWE)
* FUELED BY FIRE (USA)
* DARK WIZARD (HOL)
* SAVAGE BLADE (CAN)
* VOLTURE (USA)

ARCH/MATHEOS's full-length debut, "Sympathetic Resonance", will be made available on September 13 via Metal Blade Records. The cover art for the CD was fashioned using an image created by light painting photographer Dennis Calvert, who has described light painting as "the ability to see in four
dimensions, time traveling, and creating fantasy using only what we base all reality on, light."