SANTA KARLA

11-8-11

2011-07-13T13:09:00.002+01:00

Today we have to announce that Santa Karla are calling it a day. Duggan has been given a great opportunity to relocate to Canada, we are very happy for him and wish him all the best. For this reason however we have decided to lay the band to rest.

We would like to thank everyone who has shared the last few years with us.
Our last show will be on August 11th 2011 at The Westcoast Bar, Margate.

Santa Karla

New Bass Player

2011-04-28T16:58:00.002+01:00

As you may or may not know, Stu Weller, our long time friend and bass player left the band for personal reasons a couple months back. It was completely amicable and we wish him all the luck in the future. We now have a new bass player, his name is Dan Frye and he will be joining us just in time to record the up coming full length.

Writing/Demoing for the new LP

2011-03-21T14:51:00.001Z

Sign of the devil

2011-01-01T23:13:00.000Z

Stills from TDON 666 @ The Underworld - Photographs by Thomas Hole

Hibernation

2010-12-02T15:10:00.001Z

We have not updated on here for a while so I'm gonna do it all in one go.
We've had some mixed luck as of late, Newcastle and Durham were destroyed on our Halloween weekender but the show with Rot In Hell fell through so with many red bulls and service station snacks we drove through the night to get home. The morning we were to play with Rise And Fall, Coliseum and Nails in Norwich, Duggan cut his arm on some glass and had to go to A&E for some treatment. Low and behold Duggan was in pain and we would not have made the show on time and had to pull out, shit happens!
We did however play at TDON 6 fest last Saturday with a bunch of great bands and friends. Thanks to all who watched us and bought some records/merch! Props also to Farrell and James T for being awesome.
Unfortunately the show we were meant to play with Burning Love and Hang The Bastard got cancelled due to the snow which totally blowed as Burning Love are great.
So that brings us up to date.
Some good luck, some bad luck, this band will always take what gets thrown at it though.

We are now going into hibernation to write and record our debut album. Updates will follow and we are very excited at the thought of making this thing. It's gonna be some kind of monster.

J.

Skeleton Smile

2010-11-17T16:20:00.000Z

Our next show is on the 21st November in Norwich @ The Marquee with COLISEUM, RISE AND FALL, BISON BC, KVELERTAK, NAILS, HARM'S WAY, and HAMMERS.
Come down early, we are on stage at 4:15!!

Halloween Weekend

2010-10-27T21:22:00.001+01:00

HALLOWEEN

2010-10-14T16:52:00.000+01:00

ELEKTROCUTION

2010-10-12T10:47:00.001+01:00

BELGIUM ~ By the end of this week you will be able to pick up the LOT/SK split at ELEKTROCUTION Record Shop (37 Rue des Pierres, 1000 Brussels, Belgium).

Twitter

2010-10-09T19:57:00.002+01:00

LOT/SK Split 7 Inch is here!

2010-10-02T10:50:00.001+01:00

Go order it from cultoftdon.com

Aversionline.com

2010-09-23T16:26:00.002+01:00

Our friends at Aversionline.com have reviewed the upcoming split with Length Of Time. Check it out HERE.
Also check out TDON for updates on the release.

Ziggypop Fest ~ Belgium 2010

Break Down

2010-09-21T18:46:00.001+01:00

So we had a great show with Length Of Time, Rise And Fall, and our friends in Hang The Bastard and This Is Colour at Ziggypop fest in Belgium. Good hang outs and even better Belgium Fries! We had a great time.
Unfortunately our van broke down on the way to our London Purple Turtle show with Lonewolves (whos last show it was!!!) and so didn't get to play it! We were very bummed out. Our poor van had to get loaded on the back of a lorry and taken back to Margate. Our next London show will be TDON 6 on the 27th November.

LOT/SK Split 7 Inch Pre~Orders

2010-08-28T16:24:00.000+01:00

Pre-order the new Length Of Time ~ Santa Karla split 7Inch from Thirty Days Of Night Records by clicking on the picture.

Tumblr

2010-08-22T10:06:00.000+01:00

We've migrated over to Tumblr, more than likely we'll migrate the santakarla.com URL to there at some point. If you keep up with current trends then you're already using tumblr.

Plague Host @ The Chantry Cub, Canterbury. August 13th

2010-08-20T13:25:00.000+01:00

This video is from the Bitter End show in CT last week, video shot by Guy from Pay No Respect.

Length Of Time / Santa Karla Arwork + New Track

2010-07-31T15:46:00.000+01:00

Artwork for the forthcoming split with Length Of Time is now finished, courtesy of Mr. Simon Erl. To celebrate this we've uploaded the track Plague Host from the record to our Myspace page. TDON towers have pre-orders in the very near future.

BANE & TRAPPED UNDER ICE

2010-07-23T12:40:00.002+01:00

It seems every decent band in the UK has been added to this weekender in October. Milton Keynes won't know what hit it. We are playing the Sunday with Bane and Trapped Under Ice, we'll be on 3rd so get down early, then catch Cold Snap after we play. Alpha & Omega are a band worth checking out too, actually the whole day looks like it's going to be killer. Excitement.

Hevy Fest

2010-07-23T12:36:00.001+01:00

Hevy Fest is happening in a few weeks, Santa Karla are playing on the Saturday afternoon, that's August 7th. It's not often that Kent plays host to a lineup of this magnitude and tickets are selling out fast for the whole weekend. A word of warning, Glassjaw are playing. That is all.

TDON 6 LONDON

2010-07-16T21:06:00.001+01:00

TDON 6 is happening on November 27th 2010 at The Underworld, London. Tickets are now on sale here, get one before they sell out, last years fest went in a matter of days and with a lineup like this it'll be no exception. Do not ask us for guestlist, you will be turned down and/or ignored.

NCF reunion, get on it.

Bitter End In CT And Split 7" Update

2010-07-14T12:50:00.001+01:00

This is the week after Hevy, we haven't played Canterbury for a while and the lineup is gnarly, only 2 local bands playing (Breaking Point don't count as actual local now Louis isn't living in Kent). Raising Hell are a new CT band, a wise move would be to get to the venue early to check them out so you can say you saw them go on first at an all dayer in 4 years time and sound like you've been around ages.

Pre-orders for the Length Of Time split will go up real soon, we've got the artwork finalized and mastering is being done as we speak, 2 songs from each band, I can assure you the LOT side is going to kick your face in, real on-form stuff. For you record collectors there'll be a variety of colours, TDON will have a package to get the full set if you're like Duggan and waste money on slabs of coloured polyvinyl chloride.

Hevy Fest

2010-05-29T00:08:00.001+01:00

We are playing Hevy Festival on August 7th in Kent alongside Gallows, Trash Talk, Comeback Kid, labelmates TRC and a whole host of other great bands. Tickets are on sale now, this is the biggest thing to hit Kent music wise and you'll be mental to miss it. Glassjaw and Sepultura are playing the Sunday. Tickets are available at here.

LOT / SK MMX

2010-05-20T15:55:00.003+01:00

Further to our announcement that we are involved in a split 7" with Belgium's Length Of Time we have above the flyer for said record. It's looking like a July release date and things are moving along smoothly, pre-orders will go up shortly, await details of a release show for the record.

'Whispers' @ Magasin 4

2010-05-09T15:41:00.003+01:00

'Whispers' recorded at the show with Oathbreaker and Narrows on the 1st May 2010 at Magasin 4 in Brussels.

Length Of Time / Santa Karla Split 7" Out This Summer

2010-04-23T14:39:00.002+01:00

http://www.tdonforum.info/forum/v1/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7855

We are very pleased to announce Santa Karla are doing a split 7" with Length Of Time this summer on Thirty Days Of Night Records. Length Of Time have an established back catalogue of full length records on Belgiums Goodlife Recordings and it is an honour to be sharing a record with them. anyone not familiar with their songs can download their 'Shame To This Weakness Modern World' record here.

Pre-orders should be up on the TDON store in the next few weeks and the release date is scheduled for late June/early July.

In the mean time, check out the Length of time myspace: http://www.myspace.com/lengthoftimeofficial

Vinyl and plague hosts...

2010-02-18T14:27:00.004Z

Pre-orders for our split with Jealous will be up soon, keep and eye out for those to go up some time next month as recording is underway right now. Give Up has been beavering away on the artwork and the preliminary designs we received before the new year look phenominal. It's going to be on 12" too so we'll make sure all the pressing info is well documented for anyone who likes to collect full sets on vinyl. Expect a cover from both bands, you have been warned.

We are playing at The Purple Turtle in London with Shai Hulud on Thursday, 11 March, here is the Facebook event for those of you that frequent that site:

We're also on the TDON 5.5 all dayer on March 20th. It's got Azriel, BWP, Hang The Bastard and many more, we're likely to be on in the afternoon.

April we're off to Belgium for a few shows with Worms Feed and Sundowning, more details to come on this one.

In addition to that we have been added to the Narrows show in Brussels on May 1st with Daggers and Oathbreaker, we should really play the UK more eh...

2010

2010-01-21T09:51:00.002Z

The new year is upon us, '09 was a blast for us, we had some lineup changes which are now as solid as ever, we're well on the way to complete writing for our full length and we've lined up a split release with our friends in Jealous on Fist In The Air records.

Touring wise we're taking some time out for writing and demoing new material but we've got some nice stints pencilled in for May onwards in Europe and the UK.

Oh and follow us on Twitter @santakarlauk.

7" Release Show

2009-12-10T18:32:00.003Z

Update time, we're doing a release show in Leeds for our 7", it's with our friends Oathbreaker and the reunion of the mighty Thirty Seconds Until Armageddon. It's at The Well on Friday December 18th, £5 on the doors. Flyer is on the Facebook event.

They are available on white/blue dipped vinyl (limited to 100) and red with black splatter (limited to 200). Also we will have release show covers limited to 25 copies, most likely to be 25 of the white/blue dips.

7" pre-orders up now

2009-11-08T20:19:00.007Z

Pre-orders for the 'At The Mouth Of Madness' 7" are up over at the TDON store. These are strictly limited to 300 in total, 100 on white/blue split (only available from TDON) and 200 on red with black splatter.

They're £3.50 on their own or £6.00 for both colours in a combo. I don't know about you lot but I love collecting full sets when I pre-order a record.

The CD version is all but sold out, they have about 5 left on the Fist In The Air store and we have 3 left of the second press (full colour artwork) and Duggan found 5 of the first press hiding in his flat (grey artwork). We'll have these available at our next show. Its only £1. Word.

Speaking of next show, that is going to be in London on november 24th with Throats, here is the flyer:

See you there

Seven Inch Record

2009-10-22T12:35:00.004+01:00

'At The Mouth Of Madness,' our 3 track EP will be released on 7" through Thirty Days Of Night records in December. Release show will be the reunion show for Thirty Seconds Until Armageddon in Leeds on December 18th at The Josephs Well.

We'll have pre-orders up on the TDON store, yes they will be on colour vinyl, but most likely the rarest colour will be black, have that record nerd.

We head out to Belgium on October 30th for 3 shows, playing witht he likes of AYS, Teenage Lust, Daggers and Awaken Demons. We'll be trialling some new material we'll be putting on our split with Jealous.

We have new shirts available in our store, check out the link

Shows in Europe

2009-09-15T16:55:00.001+01:00

So we're coming up to October and for us this is a special time. We've been writing hard for our full length and we have plenty of tracks we want to try out live on the unsuspecting public.

We have a few shows in Oct that are going to be so much fun, namely Tunbridge Wells with Cancer Bats and Burning Love (ex Cursed). Also we're going to Belgium again, playing with some aweseom bands as AYS, Teenage Lust and Daggers. Check our myspace for more details on those bad boys.

Also coming up we have another release which will be out before the full length, we'll announce the specifics at some point soon. In the mean time, check out our CD "At The Mouth Of Madness" which you can order from Fist In The Air Records.

At The Mouth Of Madness on TDON digital distribution

2009-07-11T18:46:00.005+01:00

We are pleased to announce that our 3 track CD 'At The Mouth Of Madness' will be released digitally worldwide through Thirty Days Of Night Records.

In 2 weeks or so it will be available to download on itunes, HMV.com, Play.com, 7digital and many more sites, so if you haven't ordered a physical copy of the CD from Fist In The Air Records (hand sprayed CD's and numbered artwork), you can download it instead.

Copies of the CD version are selling out fast, we'll have some available at Cussed Fest on July 25th in Leeds, but we expect this to be the last show the first press will be available.

In other news, our first show with Ben on guitar down in Camden went really well, always good to play with Hang The Bastard, one of the best bands playing round the UK at the moment. We're concentrating on finishing writing for our full length right now, the new dimension brought to the fold with Ben has really helped us to bring out those doom laden riffs...

New demo "At The Mouth Of Madness"

2009-07-02T11:53:00.008+01:00

We have a new Cd out on July 3rd titled "At The Mouth Of Madness." It's being released on Fist In The Air Records, check the link to check out the variants of on body CD art. The record is three tracks, dark as fuck.

There will be 25 with full colour artwork, 25 with black artwork on blue background and 50 using grey.

We are playing Camden @ the Rock Bar on July 3rd with Lonewolves, Sioux, Hang The Bastard and Brutality Will Prevail, this is the release show so get involved. Its also the first show back with our new guitarist Ben, should be a good 'un.

Herne Bay has been Destroyed

2009-06-09T15:46:00.004+01:00

We played a show at The Heron in Herne Bay with Take Courage and Atlantic Hearts, here is a short video of "A Thousand Deaths" from that show. It was sooooo hot!

New Jams online

2009-04-20T02:19:00.002+01:00

We have been busy recording some tracks for various things, We have rerecorded an old track called Flashback, it was one of the first songs we wrote and decided to give it a new lease of life. Two of these tracks can be heard over on our MySpace page. Check them out!
We are also going on tour in Belgium with our friends in Oathbreaker from the 1st May so if you are in the country come and hang out, details of the shows are also on our MySpace.

SK

New merch store with new shirts!

2009-01-12T19:40:00.003Z

There are some new shirts in the store, one of which was designed by our good friend Adam Chandler. Check them out here, Or look on the left for quick links.

Keep them peeld for tons of new designs, we'll be playing tons more shows this year so you can also pick them up at any of the gigs.

SK

ROYAL RUMBLE!

2008-12-18T12:10:00.002Z

We are playing the Royal Rumble half dayer at the Camden Underworld on 17th January. This is gonna be a good show and a load of good bands are playing. We are also playing in Leeds the day before at the Josephs Well with Gold Kids so check our myspace page for details on that!

CT Fest December 7th

2008-10-19T12:57:00.001+01:00

So we're playing CT fest in Canterbury on December 7th, the flyer below pretty much gives you all the information you'll ever need, some awesome bands on the bill, will be good to play with Azriel, some of us haven't shared a stage with them since we were in Love That Kills. Make it happen.

Belgium shows with Campus

2008-10-06T19:13:00.001+01:00

So we're hitting up Belgium for some shows with Campus in November, they're all TBC at the moment but should be all confirmed in the next week or so. We're excited to be playing a couple of new songs and possibly a cover as most people won't have heard us over there, should be sweet deals.

More information coming soon.

SK

THE LEGACY/GOLD KIDS in London

2008-09-02T13:10:00.003+01:00

We are playing the Legacy/Gold Kids London show on September 16th. The lineup is pretty strong compared to the dross we usually get asked to play. It'll be good to see our London buddies come along for hangouts and high fives.

One more thing, the show is over 18's. We might be abel to sneak people in but we don't know how strict they'll be on the door. Sorry in advance.

COLD SNAP release show

2008-09-02T12:48:00.002+01:00

We're playing the Cold Snap release show for their "Glacies Incarnate" record on Sunday September 14th at the Downtown diner in Ashford. Rot In Hell aren't playing now but No Dice are now on the bill.

Also noteworthy is the addition of Light bringer opening the show, its the new band from The break In's Sam, Dave and Richard. Well worth checking out, we all know they're going to kick ass.
All you slackers out there who haven't picked up our new CD can grab one at the show, they're only £5, and its pretty heavy.

SK to Play Seaside Summer Slaughter with Ted Maul

2008-08-28T18:23:00.000+01:00

Were on at 3:45 so get down there and watch all the great bands that are playing!
SK

Myspace will eat your soul!

2008-08-28T01:07:00.000+01:00

Go check out our Myspace page and listen to the songs on there, they are taken from our new MCD. You can also leave us a comment telling us how much you like the way the wind blows through Sebs hair or what you had for breakfast! SK

New website/blog!

2008-08-28T01:00:00.000+01:00

Click here to order the new MCD titled "A Thousand Deaths" .

6 tracks of crushing old school metalcore with a refreshingly modern twist from Kent's Santa Karla.

For fans of Integrity, Throwdown, Zao & Dead Swans.

UK Postage & Packing included in the price.

"Santa Karla have delivered a crushingly effective blast of metallic hardcore that's every bit as good, if not better, than anything else I've heard in the genre this year." - A Short Fanzine About Rocking