Sacri Monti to Release Live Set From Sonic Whip Festival
Posted in Whathaveyou on December 7th, 2022 by JJ KoczanTo tell you the truth, I’ve been looking for an excuse to write about San Diego heavy rockers Sacri Monti for a while now. The explosion of bands in the scene of their home city, so prevalent just a few years ago that Roadburn invited a large swath of them over to the Netherlands for a group showcase/brodown in 2018, has abetted, and players have either reorganized themselves into different outfits or turned their attentions elsewhere. It seems early to say that Sacri Monti, who’ve never been the most hyped of the bunch, are ‘survivors’ of that somewhat inevitable ebbing — their last record, Waiting Room for the Magic Hour (review here), was only their second — but especially in the post-Covid, it’s been quiet from San Diego and these guys are an exception.
Earlier this year, they returned to the road like many others around the world, and went on tour in Europe to support Waiting Room for the Magic Hour and play some new songs, playing the likes of Desertfest London and Sonic Whip in the Netherlands. It’s from the latter that their newly-announced live album will be taken — you might recall their headspinning Finnish tourmates in Kaleidobolt recently put out their own recording from the same fest — and is currently being mixed for release in Spring 2023. The fact that there are songs from their yet-unmade third album — a crucial moment for any band — bodes well, and one looks forward to this as well as that as they continue to press forward where others before them have gone by the wayside.
To everything, riff, riff, riff, there is a season, riff, riff, groove.
Hopefully more to come closer to the release:
We are releasing a live album from Sonic Whip Fest in Nijmegen, Netherlands from the last tour. Mixing is underway and almost finished. Three new surprises on the set list and a few old ones from the first two albums. We are looking forward to it and are in the process of writing the next record. Stay tuned for release date this Spring and stuff.
Not sure who took this photo too… [Ed: Photo by Maaike Ronhaar]
Sacri Monti is:
Brenden Dellar -Guitar
Dylan Donovan- Guitar
Anthony Meier- Bass
Evan Wenskay- Organ, Synth
Thomas Dibenedetto- Drums
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