HIMSA Hang Up Their Boots

The Seattle-based metal quintet HIMSA created a ferocious blend of melodic thrash mixed with old-school influences which resulted in a savage, unique and uncompromising sound. Now the band has announced that they plan to hang up their boots and ride off into the sunset. But not before one more massive party!

The band has announced that they planned one final stand in their hometown. Himsa will step into the club that they have called home since their beginnings, Seattles El Corazon, on August 16th to pay tribute to the fans that made them who they became.

Derek Harn (bass) further comments: 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.

Veni, Vidi, Vici.
{Translated for our purposes: Himsa Came. Himsa Rocked. Himsa Conquered}