Meet Yukon Power Thrashers SANKTUARY

Power thrash champions SANKTUARY are returning in 2016 with their new album ‘Winters Doom’ to follow up 2013’s widely praised ‘Something Fierce’. Set to be unleashed on January 22nd, the Yukon warriors of the Canadian North had the premiere of their second single ‘Corpse Blockade’.

Bassist Cole Hume explains the track:

“A Necromancer summons the dead and forms a wall of corpses as his entourage. Moral of the story…don’t fuck with this Necromancer.”

About the band:

Power thrash champions SANKTUARY hail from the harsh and blisteringly cold of the deep far North of Canada’s Yukon Territory situating themselves in the city of Whitehorse (pretty far north, like the Siberia of Canada eh!). They have been trekking across the country for the past 6 years to bring their fierce and dynamic high speed riffs, catchy hooks, and belted out lyrics to the metal crowds.

A collective vision that began in high school with a group of like-minded teens fed up with the constraints of mainstream music who wanted to emulate the lifestyles of their favourite bands. Their straight-forward, no-bullshit attitudes shape their signature brand of heavy metal, which has led them to release the full length, 2013’s ‘Something Fierce’ that reached #19 on the national college radio loud charts, 2011’s ‘Tundrastruck’ split with Nova Scotia’s Black Moor and Montreal’s Metallian plus two EPs 2010’s ‘Black Magic’ and 2009’s self-titled.

Members of the band write harmoniously, basing each song off of a key riff from either Alan Binger (vocals and guitar), Glen Emond (guitar), or Cole Hume (bass), and then Anders Grasholm (drums) works his magic on the rhythm of each tune.

2016 see the band’s return with their sophomore album ‘Winter’s Doom’ set for release on January 22nd, 2016. The album features seven killer high speed, breakneck thrash metal tracks inspired by the Yukon’s far North they call home along with other issues such as politics, technology, etc..

“In the title track and album cover we portray ourselves as heavy metal warriors thriving in a habitat where most would perish instantaneously.That’s our homeland, the Yukon.” comments the band.

Discography
2009 – Sanktuary EP
2010 – Black Magic Brew EP
2011 – Tundrastruck Split EP
2013 – Something Fierce LP

Tours & Festivals
2012 – Something Fierce Across Canada Tour
2011 – Boozed, Used and Abused Eastern Canadian Tour
2011 – Annihilation of The Nation Cross Canada w/ Black Moor
2011 – Maritime Mayhem – Mini-Tour w/ Fatality
2010 – Waking The Dead Eastern Canadian Tour
2010 – Cross Canadian Tour
2009 – Western Canadian Tour

Shared Stage w/
3 Inches of Blood, Blood Ceremony, Fatality, Skull Fist, Unleash the Archers, Black Moor, Hellacaust, Aggressor, Shotgun Cure, Striker, Alcoholator, Reanimator, Mastery, Savage Blade, Datura, Descendant, The Order of Chaos, Tiger Star, Terrifier, Metalian

Stay tuned for what Sanktuary has to offer for fans! Visit their Facebook page for more details at www.facebook.com/sanktuarymetal