DIVINE REGALE have released the music video for ‘Miles Between Us,’ a single whose origins reach back to 1997 and whose themes reflect the progressive metal band’s reunion. Both the single and accompanying video became available on November 11, 2026. The song is the lead track from the forthcoming album Ghost In Every Room, due January 15th.
Drummer and vocalist Chris Anderson identifies the track as an early breakthrough when writing resumed: ‘It was the first thing that clicked when we started writing in 2014.’ Its starting point came from an older composition called ‘Ashes,’ developed between Fates Warning tour legs in 1997.
‘I started going through old cassettes and found a different arrangement that was a shorter, stripped-down version of the song. That became the seed for “Miles…”’ Anderson explains. The track developed rapidly from there, with a prominent chorus and a guitar solo by Gary Leighton. Anderson points specifically to Leighton’s Randy Rhoads influences in the solo.
For vocalist Dwight Hill, the song connects with the experience of returning to the band after years apart. ‘A lot of years had passed since I’d been in the same room with the guys,’ he says. ‘I find it interesting when we revisit something or somewhere after so much time, how much has changed and equally what hasn’t.’
Ghost In Every Room follows DIVINE REGALE’s 1997 Metal Blade Records debut, Ocean Mind. Pre-orders opened November 11 for apparition colored 2LP vinyl, limited to 300 copies, and CD Digipak, through the label’s webstore and Bandcamp.
Anderson describes the album as diverse but recognizably DIVINE REGALE, with more mature songwriting and arranging. He says the band did not plan for a 30-year break between albums and thanks listeners who remained with them through that interval.
Leighton calls the record a ‘second debut album’ and says it was written without a predetermined plan. ‘Written without any caveats or predetermined plan, we simply created what felt right,’ he explains. He characterizes the result as old-school progressive music with similarities to classic Queensryche and Fates Warning, while retaining the band’s own sound.
Hill relates the album title to accumulated experiences of love, joy, sadness, tragedy and loss, imagining memories as rooms inhabited by spirits. ‘Ghost In Every Room’ is, he says, ‘a collection of songs that dig up ghosts from the past, with hopes that sharing them will finally bring them peace.’
Formed in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1989, DIVINE REGALE built their early following through the 1992 EP Window, which led to an opening slot on Dream Theater’s Images and Words tour. The 1994 EP Horizons received college and metal radio airplay and expanded the band’s international reach.
‘Cry to Heaven’ appeared on Metal Blade’s Metal Massacre XII compilation in 1995, preceding the band’s signing with the label in 1996 and the release of Ocean Mind the following year. Their influences included Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, Fates Warning and Marillion, with an emphasis on composition over technical display. Supporting Ocean Mind, they opened for labelmates Fates Warning on the A Pleasant Shade of Gray tour, playing from New England to Texas.
Following a fifteen-year hiatus, DIVINE REGALE resumed writing and recording and returned to the stage, opening shows for Scorpions, Queensrÿche, Evergrey and Fates Warning. They signed with M-Theory Audio in 2025. The announcement associates that partnership with the limited-edition Horizons + Window vinyl reissue, while its opening separately describes the vinyl reissue as occurring earlier in 2026. The collection is available on digital platforms, with a few vinyl copies remaining through the webstore and Bandcamp.
The current lineup comprises Dwight Hill on vocals, Gary Leighton and James Fairchild on guitars, Frank Couture on bass, Jason Keazer on keyboards, and Chris Anderson on drums and vocals.
