{"id":66720,"date":"2026-06-16T15:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/genesis-and-marillion-guitarists-team-up-for-new-collaboration\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:42:28","slug":"genesis-and-marillion-guitarists-team-up-for-new-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/genesis-and-marillion-guitarists-team-up-for-new-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis and Marillion Guitarists Team Up for New Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Steve Hackett<\/a> and Steve Rothery are set to unveil a collaborative album that’s been some eight years in the making. The former Genesis<\/a> guitarist and Marillion<\/a> co-founder will release The Roaring Waves<\/em> on Aug. 28. <\/p>\n

“When you’re friends first, and the music comes later, you know it’s non-competitive and something else starts to happen,” Hackett told Prog<\/a><\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n

The Roaring Waves<\/em> features seven instrumental tracks, all inspired by the British seaside town where Rothery lived as a youngster. “In winter you could hear the roaring of the of the waves during the stormy weather,” Rothery said in an official statement. “Whitby was a very evocative place to live, a very poetic and powerful place to grow up.”<\/p>\n

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Hackett was with Genesis from 1971-76, a span that began with the U.K. Top 40 hit Nursery Cryme<\/a><\/em> and ended with the gold-selling Wind and Wuthering<\/a><\/em>. More recently, Hackett has been presenting whole-album retrospective shows devoted to the era. The most recent<\/a> was 2025’s The Lamb Stands Up Live at the Royal Albert Hall<\/em>. His last original album dates to 2024’s The Circus and the Nightwhale<\/em>, also a Top 40 U.K. hit. <\/p>\n

Work on The Roaring Waves<\/em> began in earnest in 2023, with sessions held at Buckinghamshire’s Racket Club in between their own individual projects. “It was a bit old school our approach, like the idea of mates getting together in the garage and playing and hanging out,” Hackett said in the news release.<\/p>\n

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Steve Hackett rose to initial fame with Genesis in the early ’70s. (Dennis Stone \/ Express, Getty Images)<\/figcaption>Steve Hackett rose to initial fame with Genesis in the early ’70s. (Dennis Stone \/ Express, Getty Images)<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Rothery is Marillion’s co-founding guitarist and the longest serving member, but he’s been far less prolific than Hackett as a solo artist. Rothery’s lone album is 2014’s The Ghosts of Pripyat<\/em>. Rothery’s other side projects have included Bioscope and the Wishing Tree. <\/p>\n

“If you’d have told the 15-year-old me, who was just discovering Genesis and starting to learn to play guitar, that one day this legendary guitarist would be a great friend of mine 40-odd years later,” Rothery told Prog<\/em>, “I’d have fallen over.” <\/p>\n

Pre-orders for The Roaring Waves<\/em> are set to begin on June 26. Marillion’s latest studio project<\/a> was 2022’s An Hour Before It’s Dark<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Listen to Steve Hackett on the ‘UCR Podcast’<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Projects recorded apart from one another allowed members of Genesis to explore areas of their songcraft that might have gone forever undiscovered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Gallery Credit: Nick DeRiso<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n