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Slik Helvetika steps into 2009 with their much anticipated first major full length release titled "HAFNIUM".
With major teams now working with the band, [Grammy nominated engineer and producer David Ivory, Chip Ruggieri at Chipster Pr, [Judas Priest, Iron Maiden] Wolfgang Rott [Iron Maiden], Ken Cavalier at Allure Artist Management] promotion effort, pending US and European tours, 2009/2010 will mark a pinnacle of songwriting, performance for Slik Helvetika's long awaited first major national release titled "HAFNIUM". Distributed by H'art worldwide in conjunction with SAOL and available everywhere. The songwriting is at it's highest level and the band has truly defined it's unique sound for the world to hear.
Hafnium CD release dates: Nov 16th 2009-[Europe]
Nov 23 [North America]
The first 100 early edition copies sold at "CD baby" are autographed by the band and are available NOW at "CD baby"
Video for "WIDE" from HAFNIUM on you tube now ............and under video section on this site!
Video release "Wide" from Hafnium: Oct 16 2009 [Behind the scenes "Making of WIDE" shots available at www.slikhelvetika.com see news June 3rd
"All roads have led us to this release..........our developing songwriting, style, experience, maturity and work ethics have all melded together to put us here and made something special and unique like never before"....Mik
Slik Helvetika's history began 2005: debut disc. Very simply Mik recording the kind of music he liked to write/play with no cares of what current trend was popular. The disc got alot of attention and charted all the way up to #19 on college radio on Mik's own Label Screaming Mimi Records. Slik followed up with various live performances at rock festivals and as support for national acts and meet demand.
The band signed with Screaming ferret Records 2007 and the follow up 5 song E.P. titled "Krypt Kicker-5" was released quickly while Mik was writing Hafnium. "KK5" had a more aggressive feel and featured bizarre humored skits and material pre-dating 1995. "It was damage control giving this to an outside small indie lable as a trial run rather than our best and newest material.
Influences best pointed at are: Old school: Rob Halford/Priest, Queen, Sweet, Randy Rhoads, Zak Wyld, Butch Walker and the marvelous 3. New school: Papa roach, Greenday, Shinedown & Nickelback.
LIVE SHOW...........
The live show is the biggest asset the band has. Fans say it's like being hit by a freight train. Mik and Mark are true performers with personalities to match. The live sound really does make the disc sound tiny. "live.....we are exploding at you and putting out enough electricity to run a whole city with every song" Myers says: " I am completely exhausted and spent after a show ..the intensity takes alot out of us, physical sports I do take less out of me than a Slik show". ....Often knocking each others instruments out of tune during colisions when we don't have a big stage. Playing an amped up version of the BEE GEE'S stayin' alive and QUEEN'S Bohemian Rhapsody? This band makes it mandatory to have a good time, groove, laugh, sweat and pump you fist into the air.
WHAT DOES SLIK HELVETIKA MEAN ?
The name is rather mysterious and fans like to add their own twist to what they think it means. It rolls out easy, sounds bold and leaves alot to the imagination. Some know helvetica as a font and the band prides itself on strong lyrical content hence "slik words". But it goes deeper. The words, and terms associated have a bold history through the 1500's.What does Confoederatio Helvetica mean in Latin?, why were Helvetican warriors thought to be invincible in the 1500s? which Helvetii tribe made captive Roman soldiers pass under the yoke upon victory in the battle of Gaul?, What threat did this hold for Caesar?
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