Ministry and Peter Hook Contribute to Captain Beyond Tribute Album Thousand Days of Yesterdays

Ministry and former New Order bassist Peter Hook have been announced as contributors to a Captain Beyond tribute album, Thousand Days of Yesterday, due out November 20th.

The album sees the entirety of Captain Beyond’s 1972 self-titled debut album covered in full by a bevy of artists across its 13 tracks and 6 CD-exclusive bonus tracks.

While Ministry and Peter Hook contribute two additional versions of opening song “Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea of Air)” as bonus tracks on the CD edition, the full list of contributors includes doom metal legends Pentagram, progressive rock stalwarts The Flower Kings, Hawkwind maestro Nik Turner, and Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson among many, many more.

Founder and drummer Bobby Caldwell said of the band before his passing, “As a kid I was into jazz, and I thought ‘wow, maybe if I could find the right people, I could do this, and I could create something that’s unpredictable, a little bit different to the norm, where you can’t tell where it’s going necessarily.”

Captain Beyond was a supergroup initially formed by members of Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, and the Johnny Winter Group. Their debut self-titled album fused hard rock and progressive rock, delivering three lengthy epics broken up into movements alongside two smaller tracks.

Thousand Days of Yesterday is currently available for pre-order on CD, vinyl, and digital.

See the full tracklist for Thousand Days of Yesterday below.

Thousand Days of Yesterday Artwork:

01.Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air) – Pentagram
02. Armworth – Rise And Shine
03. Myopic Void – Standarte
04. Mesmerization Eclipse – Lotus, Brian Robertson
05. Raging River Of Fear – The Flower Kings
06. Thousand Days Of Yesterdays (Intro) – The Quill
07. Frozen Over – The Quill
08. Thousand Days Of Yesterdays (Time Since Come And Gone) – Five Fifteen, Nik Turner
09. I Can’t Feel Nothing, Pt. 1 – Locomotive Breath
10. As The Moon Speaks (To The Waves Of The Sea) – Zello
11. Astral Lady – Zello
12. As The Moon Speaks (Return) – Zello
13. I Can’t Feel Nothing, Pt. 2 – Locomotive Breath
14. Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air) – Peter Hook (CD bonus track)
15. Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air) – Ministry (CD bonus track)
16. Starglow Energy – Orchid Leaves (CD bonus track)
17. Sweet Dreams – ZoomlenZ (CD bonus track)
18. Dansar Galet Bakåt – Qoph (CD bonus track)
19. Förtrollande Förmörkelse – Abramis Brama (CD bonus track)