Rock Rally 2006 winners present second album

In 2006 The Hickey Underworld - or Younes Faltakh (guitar/vocals), Jonas Govaerts (guitar), Jimmy Wouters (drums) and Georgios Tsakiridis (bass guitar) - won HUMO’s Rock Rally. A few years later - in 2009 to be precise - their untitled debut was released, with the knock-out singles ‘Future Words’ (topped Studio Brussel's De Afrekening for weeks on end) and ‘Blonde Fire’. What's more, the much talked about clips associated with them made furore at many a film festival. The Hickey Underworld also gave it their best at festivals like Rock Werchter, Pukkelpop, Dour, Les Ardentes, Lokerse Feesten and many more.

February 2012 will see the release of their second album, ‘I’m Under The House, I’m Dying’, again produced by Das Pop and this time mixed by the well reputed Dave Sardy (who recently did the same for Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds). The band will present that album on February 22 in the ABClub.

Antwerp's In-kata has just completed a bomb of a new album that is to be released in February 2012. With it they announce the revival of the most uncompromising band in the Low Lands. Expect an obsessive and threatening guitar force in disorienting song structures and rhythms. “The alternative younger brother of The Mars Volta” (OOR). In-kata is the reincarnation of Quetzal, a band with a strong international and live reputation. Bram Sigo (drums), Jorg Strecker (guitar), Mattias Cré (bass) and Wannes Cré (vocals), worked together with the likes of Elko Blijweert and Tom Pintens for their previous releases. They've produced four albums (‘Farewell Masquerade’ was self-released, ‘Dead end Tracks’, ‘Quetzal vs Starfish Pool’ and ‘The Messenger Lies Bleeding’, were released as Quetzal on Conspiracy Records) and have toured Europe many times.

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