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HIMSA Announces Final Show Of Its Career

June 20, 2008

Seattle-based metal quintet HIMSA has announced its plans to disband. The group's bassist, Derek Harn, has issued the following statement on the matter:

"After 10+ years, four releases, countless tours and almost incomprehensible (yet constant) upheaval, the last three years of the band have been relatively stable. Having sacrificed everything we had in order to ensure the band's survival it's time to let it go. We made a great CD ('Summon in Thunder', Century Media); reportedly, our best. We've got a great label. We're getting along, we've toured and were fine. It's all good. We're leaving it at that.

"A relatively unremarkable closing to HIMSA's gi-normously dramatic career, there appears to be no acrimony or unpleasantness, simply the end of a blistering, phenomenal, tumultuous era of the metal that HIMSA permeated into the modern musical landscape. References have been made to the band's evolving difficulties with the relentless touring schedules that have been the hallmark of HIMSA's career. "If we can't tour, and our reality is we can't tour as we have in the past, then it's not HIMSA. Better to hang it up than fade away.

HIMSA will honor its legacy with a final performance at El Corazon in Seattle on August 16.

Fan-filmed video footage of HIMSA performing live in Hamburg, Germany in September 2007 can be viewed below.

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