Release date

We are very excited to announce that our new record, 'A New Cycle', will be released on April 1st (seriously).
In order to celebrate we have some more things to share with you:

Pre-orders: Pre-orders for CD/LP are now available. We have also included a package deal with a great t-shirt!

New song: Listen to a new song, 'Thoughts and Prayers', on Bandcamp or YouTube. Within this song a combination of problems concerning the gun industry and gun ownership are discussed.

Release show: On May 3rd we will be playing a release show at De Groote Weiver, Wormerveer (NL). More info on that soon. Also, we will be doing a weekender in the UK late March for which we expect to have the new record with us.

This weekend: Lastly, this weekend we are playing a home town show at Discovery, Castricum. Come hang!

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Thursday, 28 February 2019, 18:50 Sweet Empire

Booze Cruise

We are headed back over to Germany in June to play the migthy Booze Cruise in Hamburg alongside some of the best bands and friends. See you aboard!

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Thursday, 31 January 2019, 17:35 Sweet Empire

A New Cycle - update

We are extremely excited to tell you that our third full length, A New Cycle, is finished. Now it's time to share some things with you.

Song You can listen to a first song of the album via Bandcamp or YouTube (or on the player on the right of your on the desktop version.
The song is titled 'V.K.T.', or 'Viezen Kut Thierry' in full. It deals with the ongoing unfortunate rise of populism. Have a listen and we'd like to hear your thoughts on the song.

Vinyl / CD Besides on all digital platforms the album will become available on vinyl and CD. The vinyl and CD's have been ordered and will be available via:
Shield Recordings - (BeNeLux - CD/LP)
Umlaut Records - (UK - CD/LP)
Bad Wolf Records - (FR - LP)
North Empire (NL - CD)
A release date will be set soon! We are humbled that these great labels support us and help out with the release.

Recording/mixing/mastering The album is only sounding this good because of the great work by Marc and Sven at Perimeter Audio for the recording and mixing and Pier-Durk Hogeterp for doing the mastering. We love you.

Artwork
The artwork has been made by the great Segolia Design. What a beauty, isn't it?!

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More news (e.g. a release date), songs, (release) shows, pre-orders, promo, spam, will follow soon!

Thursday, 24 January 2019, 20:36 Sweet Empire

2019

Happy new year to all of you!
2018 was great to us, we celebrated our 10 years anniversary and played a lot of cool shows. We also recorded our new album. We are in the midst of finalising the album and are planning the release at this moment.
Keep a look out for more news and teasers on the new album.
For now we wish you all the best for 2019 and we hope to see you at a show this year.

Sunday, 6 January 2019, 15:52 Sweet Empire

Shirts

The great people at Fairtrademerch have supplied us with some new t-shirts. Right in time for our 10-years-anniversary show and tour!

3 different colors in lots of different sizes. Shirts are fairtrade and made of recycled materials.

Available as of this Saturday at our shows, after the tour we will put them up in our store.

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Thursday, 13 September 2018, 21:01 Sweet Empire