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Biography

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, Motley Crue etc.

SANCTIMONY has played as supporters for Dismember in Latvia (2004), Whitesnake in Latvia (2004) and Entombed in Latvia and Lithuania (2005).

SANCTIMONY has got many prizes in Latvia’s notable music festival “Sinepes un Medus”. The band has played a lot of gigs and at many festivals in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia as well as in Belorussia.

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 cover versions of Black Sabbath’s “Into the Void” and Sting’s “Synchronicity II”.

The year 2005 starts out with two great gigs in Riga and Vilnius (Lithuania) together with swedes Entombed.

Currently SANCTIMONY is composing songs for the next album and playing highly energized shows.

Line-Up:
Janis Bolšaks - vocals
Viesturs Grinbergs - guitar
Janis Aizkalns - guitar
Deniss Denisenko - bass
Karlis Jakubonis - drums

Discography:
2005 - DEVIL AND MEN
2000 - LIRIX
1999 - ETERNAL SUFFERING
1996 - WHEN THE SUN WAS GOD