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The Heretics

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About Me

THE HERETICSMOD/GARAGE/PSYCH/60`s R&BDo you want to experience the full-on blast of five-dimensional garage rock, music as catchy as a Molotov-cocktail on an oil tanker? If so you should check out The Heretics!They’ve got a knack of combining killer tunes, roaring guitars, snarling organ and a rhythm section that takes no prisoners with the ability to lovingly kick around a sometimes strict genre and put their own special spin on it. If you add soulful vocals and adventurous harmonies to that, you got yourself the glorious high-energy filled package called The Heretics!The band has it’s roots in a common love for the great mid-sixties English music scene: bands like the early Who and The Kinks, and lesser known groups like The Action and The Creation. Risk-taking, raw pop music heavily influenced by the R&B scene of the day can be a short way of putting it.The Heretics has played concerts all over Norway, slowly building their live-reputation. The venues range from rainy windswept parking lots (hello Norheimsund!) to packed clubs filled with sweaty dancers. All shows (well, almost all..) have been fun and memorable, but for the band the ones that stick out are supporting the great Cynics of Pittsburgh and The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band, and of course the many 60`s themed club gigs The Heretics have done.After getting a surprising lot of mileage out of their 4-track demo( with airplay both in The US and Europe, as well as faraway Australia – and songs released on Rowed Out Records and Pistol Digital) The Heretics are now (March 2008) ready to record their first proper record. It will be an EP, recorded in the Hörwerk studios and released by Norwegian indie record label Roadkill Records.Remember: Very loud, very good, very The Heretics!About the band:-“The Heretics are lighting up the mod scene with their original take on it. Old influences yes, but their way. ...like Johnny Thunders covering The Yardbirds, go and see them live!” (The Underground Hedgehog) All photos and design by Stefan Petrov/Kamikaze Media


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Member Since: 4/28/2006
Band Members: Kristian Hvalen Høgheim - Bass guitar/ Espen P. Dahle - Keyboards/ Mads The Animal Mevatne - Drums/ Hallvard The Handsome Mildestveit - Guitar,vocals,harmonica/ Bjarte The Judge Thorson - Guitar,Organ
Influences: The Who, The Small Faces, The Creation, The Pretty Things, The Sonics,The Action, The Stone Roses, The Bees, The Smiths, The Yardbirds, Otis Rush, The Byrds, Nirvana, Oasis, Supergrass, Super Furry Animals, Jackie Miitoo, Junior Murvin, 13th Floor Elevators, The Buzzcocks, Love, Pink Floyd,T he Blue Van, Lee Scratch Perry, Bob Dylan, The Artwoods, Dr John The Night Tripper, The Flamin`Groovies, Peter Green`s Fleetwood Mac, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives,J ohn Lee Hooker, The Rolling Stones, Buffalo Springfield, King Crimson, The Sex Pistols, The Jam, The Undertones, Curtis Mayfield, Dr.Teeth & The Electric Mayhem, Brimstone Solar Radiation Band, The Stooges, Otis Redding, Albert King, P.P Arnold, Miles Davies, Charlie Christian, Led Zeppelin, Nick Drake, The Ska-Ta-Lites, CSN, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Neil Young, The Shins, The Attack, The Smoke, Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, The Beach Boys, Flying Burrito Brothers, The Band, The MC5, T-Rex, all the magnificent men & women from Stax and Motown plus the rest of the Northern Soul gang, JOHN PAUL GEORGE AND RINGO & many,many more..
Sounds Like: Very loud,very good,very The Heretics! MyGen Profile Generator
Record Label: Roadkill Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

BOOKING THE HERETICS?

Do you want to book the Heretics? Send an e-mail to [email protected] and we`ll work something out. ...
Posted by The Heretics on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:53:00 PST

Boomerang Track Of The Week

Our song Boomerang (Of Truth) is indie rock track of the week at Garageband this week! We don`t know if this has any significance or not, but at least they gave us this nice badge: Seems like it was ...
Posted by The Heretics on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:55:00 PST

HERETICS REVIEWED

The Underground Hedgehogs have listened to The Heretics, this is their opinion: Click here
Posted by The Heretics on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:04:00 PST