Closer To The Unknown

At The Edge Of Winter

At The Edge Of Winter (feat. Charlotte Wessels)

Vanishing Twin

First track from our double 12" colored vinyl release "The Inner Traveller", available from www.simonisdead.com and streamed on Spotify etc.

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Pilgrim Road

01 The End Times

02 The Light

07 Snake Mirror

If you are an artist of any discipline, you would completely understand the unstoppable urge to create your own art. It’s an unexplainable force that makes you want to express yourself. This is the same for the Dutch alternative metal band SiMÓN: they can’t help making their dark, raw, dramatic, but melodic sludgy music. The state of the world, the destructive nature of men, the personal affections for the darker things in life and the joy of hanging out together and make great music; these elements combined created the matrix in which the band was formed.

From the beginning of the band in 2005 SiMÓN has always been about sharing the passion for creating and performing. Where their debut Slices Of You (2009) can be seen as a musical interpretation of brutally tearing the world to shreds, their second album The Inner Traveller (2014) describes the journey afterwards, musically as well as lyrically. It contains longer and epic compositions in a comprehensive mix of heavy, bombastic metal, psychedelic and melodic rock.
 In addition to the production of The Inner Traveller the band spent a few weeks recording in the famous Leidsche Schouwburg theatre. The ambience of this 300 years old theatre was monumental, haunting and isolating, which has become the foundation of the album. The band has engineered, produced and mixed the album themselves (just like their debut Slices Of You) and had it mastered by Jochem Jacobs at the Split Second Sound Studio in Amsterdam. The Inner Traveller has been digitally released by Redfield Records in December 2013 and was released on Double 12” Colored Vinyl by the band itself in April 2014. 
New songs were already under construction while finishing The Inner Traveller, but since the beginning of 2015 SiMÓN has started to focus on writing new music for an upcoming release in early 2016. Musically they will further develop their characteristic style and try to bring it to a next level. Inspired by their intense live performances the new material proves to be more energetic, louder and in your face.

The members of the Rotterdam based band SiMÓN have been active in the Dutch music scene for many years and have been involved with bands like Face Tomorrow, Dreadlock Pussy, Viberider, Dead By Dawn and Sk;rl. Having played and worked with bands such as Textures, Torche, Pelican, Callisto, A Storm Of Light, Karma To Burn, Tank 86, Izah, Amen Ra and many others. 


02 The Light

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