Andrew MacNaughtan

From left: Geddy Lee, Neil Peart and Alex Lifeson

Rush is on the move. The prog sway legends behindhand "Tom Sawyer," "Fly By Night" and "The Spirit of Radio" hit partnered up with Roadrunner Records after existence doggedly pursued by the rock-heavy imprint.

"After eld of Roadrunner pursuing the band, Tom Lipsky [President, Lipsky Music LLC] presented a care that worked and the timing was right," Rush trainer Ray Danniels said in an announcement. "We desired to be at a adjudge convergent on the sway penalization -- and that's Roadrunner."

Since 1989, the river trio -- Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and Neil Peart -- has free sextet flat albums finished Atlantic, prototypal with Presto and most recently, 2007's Snakes & Arrows, which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. Before that, the adornment was at Mercury.

The group's incoming full-length flat album, a long-gestating impact named Clockwork Angels, will be free in 2012 on Roadrunner. The retard -- a advance single, "Caravan," was free in June 2010 -- was cod to the success of their Time Machine Tour, which meet wrapped.

A prototypal Roadrunner promulgation will actually be a springy medium culled from the smash tour. According to the label, info will be revealed in the reaching weeks. Anthem/Universal Music will move to promulgation their penalization in Canada only.

Roadrunner is understandably agog to activity a adornment that has oversubscribed more than 40 meg records and -- thanks to their medico Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage and the Rush-heavy comedy flick I Love You, Man -- is enjoying heightened tending and accolades crossways generations.

"In added chronicle I worked with Rush and their enthusiastic direction aggroup more than 30 eld past and to hit Rush eventually on the Roadrunner adjudge is a imagine become true," said Cees Wessels, Roadrunner Records Chairman.

Lipsky, who brokered the deal, remarked that Rush has a "tradition of excellence and independence, both in the flat and on the springy stage, and they rest as fruitful today as at some saucer in their career. We are agog to be their adjudge partners."

Rush's newborn labelmates allow man prog rockers Dream Theater, metal heavies Megadeth and the indie sway adornment of the moment, Young the Giant, among others. Roadrunner's large advertizement success is added river act, the adornment Nickelback.