1/10/13

HEAVY GLOW US tour and new 7 inch


Heavy Glow is officially announcing the following West Coast U.S. Tour Dates in support of an upcoming 7" Vinyl Release. They will be joined by Michael Amster of Tee Pee Record's recording group Blaak Heat Shujaa:


Jan 10  The Rogue Bar----------Scottsdale, AZ
Jan 11  Hotel Monte Vista------Flagstaff, AZ
Jan 13  The Cheyenne Saloon----Las Vegas, NV
Jan 15  Johnny B's-------------Medford, OR
Jan 16  The Nectar Lounge------Seattle, WA
Jan 17  East End---------------Portland, OR
Jan 18  Cloud and Kelly's------Corvallis, OR
Jan 19  The Alibi--------------Arcata, CA
Jan 23  Hotel Utah Saloon------San Francisco, CA
Jan 24  Audie's Olympic--------Fresno, CA
Jan 25  Shea's Tavern----------Reno, NV
Jan 26  Whiskey Dick's Saloon--South Lake Tahoe, CA
Jan 27  Sandrini's-------------Bakersfield, CA
Jan 28  The Roxy---------------Los Angeles, CA
Jan 29  The Soda Bar-----------San Diego, CA "


1/9/13

Interview with Sardonis


    Hello Fellas !

 
First of all I’d like to congratulate you with the Japanese tour with Eternal Elysium.
For many European bands this tour is only a dream. 
Was it successful in financial and spiritual ways ?


It was a fucking blast!  Being able to tour Japan was indeed a dream coming true and if a tour turns out to be as succesfull as it was, then you’re living the dream.  All costs were covered at the end of the ride, so financially it was good.  But spiritually is was much better.  The Japanese expected us and embraced us like we were their brothers.  Best tour ever!  


    Did you explored something new from the Japanese lifestyle ? Any new musical bands that have impressed you during the tour ?

 
They are so precise and organized it was almost frightening from time to time.  They are detailed too.  A metal guitar player will practice a certain solo until he can play it exactly the same where a European dude will be satisfied if he gets he overall feel of the solo, if you know what I mean.


We were and are big fans of Eternal Elysium, but we only saw them once live here in Europe.  Being able to tour with them and enjoying their gigs every evening was absolutely a thrill.  They are so fucking heavy and put down great shows night after night.  Coffins played a great show in Tokyo too, as well as Nepenthes, a new band with 2 former Church of Misery members.





    By the way I’ve tried to find out what does the word “Sardonis” mean and I failed. Can you help me to find the answer please ?


In the eighties there was a very popular weekly televisionshow for kids on the Flemish national television named ‘Merlina’.  It was the cliché story of the good hunting the bad.  In this case a group of detectives were chasing down a group of villains who kidnapped children, terrorized the elder…
The bad guys were leaded by this supervillain named Sardonis.  When we were young and we did something bad, our mama always told us to be nice, otherwise SardoniS would come and get us.  He was the demon of our youth.

    What is the main source of inspiration for you when writing new songs ? Do your albums have the same storyline and what all your songs about ?
We don’t want to express a certain story, but the songs breath a kind of bleak, desolate and heavy atmosphere.  I don’t think people think of beaches and cocktails when they listen to our music.

    This year was pretty plenteous for Sardonis : 2nd fullength released, Split with Tank 86 and Eternal Elysium. Any plans for future releases/gigs/fests in 2013 ?

2012 was indeed a heavy one.  Three releases, two tours, a lot of local gigs, interviews,… We will take it easier in 2013.  We’ll focus on new songs and we’ll see how it progresses.  We have some gigs lined up in March; 1 in Belgium, 2 in Greece and 2 in Portugal.  Needless to say that we’re looking forward to that.


 

    Don’t you ever thought to release split with close-by-genre-instrumental bands ala Karma to Burn, Sons of Alfa Centauri, Beast in the Field, Le Scimmie… ?

Well, we did a split 7” with instrumental comrades TANK86, but we don’t have any plans right now to do another split release.

    What will be your personal recommendations from Belgian and European and World heavy bands ?

Your Highness is a Belgian stonerband that is on the rise.  Check them out, good songwriting!

    The film/book/event that has really impressed you in 2012 ?

I don’t have a television and hardly watch any movies or read books.




    Electric Earth Recs. (Jelle run it) – was a big success. Sold out titles such as debut albums of Cough, Black Pyramid, Elder, Sardonis… That says that you have really good taste in music and also intuitive feeling what  band will be successful in the future… Why did the label suddenly shut down ? Is there a chance that mighty Electric Earth will rise again one day ?

The label shut down because of different reasons.  I could not combine it anymore with my dayjob and I didn’t want to quite my job because of the financial risk.  My son Thor was born and needed the attention of his father who was always packing vinyls when he was home, so I decided to put the label on hiatus.  There are no direct plans to restart the label in the near future, only time will tell.

    Thanx for the answers guys. Any last words ?
 
Thanks for the interview and interest in our band.  Our website went online recently, so be sure to check that one out at www.sardonis666.be  We’re on facebook too, so feel free to join the brotherhood of SardoniS.  Inhale heavy riffing and praise the Behemoth666! 







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We finished our full length album!

ROMERO "Take The Potion" LP will be released on Tuesday, January 29, 2013.

The entire album will be available for FREE DOWNLOAD through GRINDCOREKARAOKE.COM.  The band is also releasing a LIMITED EDITION of 100 CD's in deluxe packaging and has started a Kickstarter campaign to fund the vinyl release.  The Kickstarter page and more information on the release can be found here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/romeroisloud/romero-releases-take-the-potion-full-length-album


ROMERO Live Performance & Webcast!
January 18, 2013 @ 7pm (US Central standard time)
The band will be playing songs from the "Take The Potion" LP and doing a short interview for the cameras of Red Dragon TV in Madison, WI.  The show will be broadcast LIVE on the net through the Red Dragon TV website, Ustream & BlogTV, simultaneously.  Our friends and supporters from all over the world will finally be able to see & hear ROMERO play live and will have the opportunity to chat with us  on-the-air.  Get more information from http://reddragontv.tv/ or stay tuned to our FACEBOOK page for updates.

ROMERO Tour in March?
Maybe.  More details sooner than later.