Music is a concept, an experience of inspiration and creativity. From the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, the heart pumping out most of the world’s oil, where sandstone is the most abundant rock type in the area, we are an assemblage of artists looking to be unique and original. We try to avoid playing covers as much as we can. We experiment, paying no mind to the risk of failure and/or rejection. In Sandstoned, nothing is constant; we love, we hate, we fear, we aspire to musical euphoria and beyond, we cry, we sacrifice, we seek to imbibe and incorporate every pleasurable binaural sonance we hear, we learn from every reality we experience and indulge in every illusion we come across. All that comes to be must have meaning. This is what makes us "Sandstoned."
Time Line:
[05/2006] Bader met Mohammed.
[09/2006] Bader and Mohammed proposed the idea of Sandstoned.
[12/2006] Mohammed and Bader started to jam together independently.
[02/2007] Bader met Ayman.
[03/2007] Ayman joined Sandstoned as a vocalist. Hani joined Sandstoned as a keyboardist.
[04/2007] Ayman, Mohammed, Hani and Bader started to jam together.
[09/2007] Fawaz joined Sandstoned as a session drummer, and Sandstoned recorded "Revealed" as a demo in "3rd World Studio." Ayman left Sandstoned.
[10/2007] The band started to jam regularly without a vocalist. Sandstoned, then, started to look for a vocalist by hosting a very long audition session.
[11/2007] Haitham joined the group as a drummer. Ahmed A. joined Sandstoned as a guitarist. Ahmed T. joined Sandstoned as a vocalist.
[12/2007] Ahmed T. left Sandstoned for personal reasons. Hani left Sandstoned. Ayman was back with Sandstoned as a vocalist.
[01/2008] "Revealed," "The Maze" and "Sympathy Empathy" were released.
[02/2008] "Lost" was released.
[04/2008] Haitham and Ayman left Sandstoned. Kamal Khalil joined the band as a drummer. Fahad joined the band as a vocalist. John joined Sandstoned as a keyboardist. The band enters a new phase.
[03/2009] RIP John Hany - Sandstoned is disbanded
