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Hermetic

About Me

Hermetic are a Canadian indie rock band , formed in 2006 in Vancouver , British Columbia . The group consists of songwriter Eric Axen (vocals, guitar and harmonica) and Bart Newman (drums and background vocals). After practicing together for six months, Hermetic began playing shows in April 2007, but did not start taking themselves seriously until January 2008. That year, they played 26 live shows, including the Music Waste festival in June, a short tour with Animal Names in August/September, and Shindig in September-December, in which they won first place. To date, Hermetic have released a split cd-r with Plus Perfect, have recorded a song for an upcoming 7” , and have plans to record a full-length lp at the Hive Studios in June 2009.

External Links 1. [email protected]
2. New Music Canada

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 23/02/2007
Band Members: eric axen - baritone guitar, vocals, harmonica
bart newman - drums, vocals
Influences: jawbreaker, the evens, mission of burma, the inbreds, minutemen, ted leo/chisel, chad vangaalen, sebadoh
Sounds Like: poppy post-punk
Record Label: plans to make plans
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

more nice press

Review of Duofest 3 @ Pat's Pub - 3/13/09: "Last up were Hermetic who are definitely involved with other acts past and present. As stated on their NMC profile, 'Hermetic is a two-piece band comprised ...
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 16:38:00 GMT

thunderbird radio hell

we played live on citr's thunderbird radio hell a few weeks back.  you can listen to it here.that is all.xo eric
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:20:00 GMT

second discorder shindig review

The evening got off to an introspective start courtesy of Zombie Pistolero & His Guns, a one-man, bass and drum-machine outfit who has clearly hoovered up the industrial quantities of Joy Division...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:58:00 GMT

discorder shindig review

Even though the lineup for Shindig's second night was rumoured not to be as strong as the previous week, the Railway Club was still busy with CiTR aficionados. Hermetic, Stephanie Lang, and Mr. Chanc...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:32:00 GMT

canada tour, split ep, cbc radio 3

in a rare twist of fate, there is actually more hermetic news than time to report it.first off, we are leaving tonight on our cross-canada tour with animal names.  when we say cross-canada we m...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:30:00 GMT

every band weve played with so far

(2007-2008 - idea stolen from b-lines)in exact chronological order:plus perfectsafety showcertain breedsborn badsearch and destroylightning roundsomething's wronganimal namessecret firesdefektorsb-lin...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:44:00 GMT

no one blogs here more than you

just a quick note that there's a few nice photos of us up on flickr, in case you can't get enough of our beautiful collective visage:first there's steve louie's photos from the pub 340 show,then there...
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 17:10:00 GMT

you made me realize

so begins another blog that begins with the word 'so.'we finished our recording yesterday of three new songs, one of which is actually old but we have never played live.  they are now in the hand...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:42:00 GMT

is there anybody going to listen to my story

so we've played three shows since i last blogged. squamish in november was a relative disaster, honey lounge last thursday was pretty sweet, and the library house on saturday was great. thanks a bunch...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:08:00 GMT

meaty, beaty, shitty sounding

so it's been a while since i gave the internet much attention, largely due to not having it at home. sorry about that... i finally uploaded a few more fully-mixed tracks from our demo. thanks a to...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:00:00 GMT