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Artist
Sanctimony
12+ albums
Death'n'Rolldeath metallatvianmetaldeath n roll
about
SANCTIMONY plays heavy music style which they name as “death’n’roll”. As their influences they mark out such worldwide famous artists as Ozzy Osbourne, Entombed, Black Label Society. Founded in 1994 the four men combo SANCTIMONY performed cover versions of songs of their favorite bands. Very soon SANCTIMONY gained fame of powerful and high energy “death metal” band leaving nobody unmoved. SANCTIMONY’s first demo album “When The Sun Was God” has been recorded in year 1996. It contained their compositions and two arrangements of Latvian folk songs. Next album “Eternal Suffering” was recorded in 1998 and released by “Father Productions”. It has been distributed worldwide. The three band members – Janis Bolsaks (vocals), Viesturs Grinbergs (guitar), Karlis Jakubonis (drums) were joined by Janis Aizkalns (guitar) and Denis Denisenko (bass) in 1999. This put an end to continuous line-up changes. Very soon a new live set of known and new songs and cover versions was done. In 2002 the wish for changes brought the band to change its music style to their favourite “heavy rock”. As they didn’t want to decline their “death metal” origin, SANCTIMONY named the new style as “death’n’roll”. Two song single has been recorded in 2003. One of the songs “Devil And Men” appears in the highest places of Latvia’s leading rock radio station “Radio SWH Rock” Top 20 and stays there for 20 weeks. In 2004 the album “Devil and Men” has been recorded. It presents 10 songs of pure death’n’roll plus c
