Rush - Hemispheres (40th Anniversary) (2018) [Blu-Ray 2.0 Mix / 5.1 Mix]

Canadian rock band Rush are to put out a 40th anniversary edition of their 1978 album Hemispheres. The reissue will be available in three physical formats, including a super deluxe edition.

The follow-up to 1977’s A Farewell to Kings is being reissued as a 2CD deluxe, a 3LP vinyl edition and a six-disc super deluxe and features new artwork by original album designer Hugh Syme. The box set features the 2015 remaster of the album on CD for the first time and on the other CD a previously unreleased and “newly restored” bonus content consisting of the band’s June 1979 Pinkpop Festival performance in the Netherlands. ‘2112’ on this CD is from a different concert (apparently the recording engineer on that day missed the a few minutes of this song!).

The third optical disc in the super deluxe is a blu-ray audio with a 5.1 surround version of the album, newly mixed from the multi-tracks (not a Steven Wilson mix, SW has confirmed). The blu-ray also includes four bonus videos.