We are heading out on a short France/Spain tour within a week:
17-10-2017 – Mc Daid’s – Le Havre 
(w/ Drunk Sincerity)
18-10-2017 – La Brasserie des Halles – Bordeaux (w/ Hey Cold, You Lost!)
19-10-2017 – L’engrenage – Grenoble (w/ ACPJ)
21-10-2017 – Underground Revolution @ Four Seasons Club – Castellon De La Plana 
(w/ Copa Turbo)
We’ll bring our swim shorts / speedos, you bring the beer!
Here it is! The new Harsh Realms / Coma Commander Split 7″! Available now on Shield Recordings & Lost Youth Records. Recorded by Tim van Doorn at Big Dog Recordings. Mastered by Jochem Jacobs at Split Second Sound. Vinyl available in our webstore.
Spotify: https://goo.gl/9WWfif
Deezer: https://goo.gl/RdOib5
iTunes: https://goo.gl/c9XNpS
Also, very Proud to present you our NEW VIDEO! Many thanks to Jelle van Dun and Max Fransen for shooting, Bram Heerebeek and Rianne van der Schoot for their acting (sorry Bram!), and of course everyone at the party for dancing their beautiful asses off!
Yessss!
THE NEW HARSH REALMS / COMA COMMANDER SPLIT SINGLE!!!
Here is the link to our new 7″ split single… even before it is out on any other digital platform or vinyl release (26th of April) by Shield Recordings & Lost Youth Records:
http://dyingscene.com/news/ds-exclusive-coma-commander-and-harsh-realms-stream-split-ep/
The link contains 3 new Harsh Realms songs, about beers, girls and motorcycles and 2 songs from our beloved friends from belgium: Coma Commander. The CC songs are about ponies and naked soccer matches, which we think is great!
If you think both DIY bands deserve a bit more attention, feel free to share it with your friends!
All songs recorded at Big Dog Recordings, produced by Tim Van Doorn.
Lets get foxy!
As you all may know, our new 7″ split single with the handsome guys in Coma Commander will be out 26th of April. Released by the great people of Lost Youth Records & Shield Recordings. The songs are recorded by Tim Van Doorn at Big Dog Recordings studios!
The very first track of side A ‘Modern Sinners‘ is now captured in a stop motion, lyric video. There’s blood, there are skulls and a donkey! What else do you need beside your milk and cookies this Thursday night?
More news, official video and new shows will be up soon!
Watch our ‘Modern Sinners’ lyric video for once and once for all!
– The Realmies
It is true, our highly anticipated Split 7″ with Coma Commander is about to arrive soon! The beauty will be released by Shield Recordings and Lost Youth Records on April 26th 2017. Recorded by the one and only Tim Van Doorn at Big Dog Recordings and mastered by Jochem Jacobs at Split Second Sound. Artwork by Daggers Design.
This joyous fact will be celebrated with not 1, but 2 release shows! The first one at the always amazing Claiming The Crown in Breda, The Netherlands on April 26th. And the second one at the always sexy Rockselaar in Okselaar, Belgium on May 20th.
Get stoked!
We got some cool gigs coming up. Hope to see you there:
15-02-2017 – Grenswerk – Venlo 
(w/ The Toy Dolls)
16-02-2017 – Mezz – Breda (w/ The Toy Dolls)
17-02-2017 – Cab03 – Leiden (w/ Coral Springs, Hoist The Colours)
22-02-2017 – Kavka – Antwerpen 
(w/ Nothington, Olde Souls, March)
26-04-2017 – Claiming The Crown – Breda (w/ Coma Commander, March, Code Of Conduct)
20-05-2017 – Rockselaar – Okselaar (w/ Coma Commander, The Priceduifkes, and more)
16-06-2017 – Fonsstock Festival – Nordenham 
( w/ CJ Ramone, The Real McKenzies, Not Scientists, and more)
4 years ago we played our first official show. In these 4 years we’ve seen so many places and so many faces. We did so many great things, too much to mention below but lets give it a try:
– opening for our friends in Antillectual a couple of times, was the best start a band could possibly have.
– opening for bands as: The Offspring, Red City Radio, The Flatliners, Off With Their Heads, Smoke or Fire, Versus The World, Teenage Bottlerocket, Nothington, Apologies, i have none, ASTPAI & A Wilhelm Scream to name a few.
– released: 1 full length album together with one of the best record labels around Shield Recordings, 2 singles and many compilation.
– made one video for our single ‘Sink in Time’.
– toured: UK, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Italy & Netherlands several times.
We can’t thank all the people that made the last 4 years a total blast but here you go:
Deny Putman for playing guitar in our first year as a band. White Russian Records for releasing our first single, Nico van Montfort for most of the recordings we did. Gert-Jan de Leeuw & Fieke Houkes for releasing our 1st album. Bonny Somalia, Bob Sacamano for the shows in Germany and the plans for a beach tour which is still under construction. All local bands we had the pleasure of sharing the stage with. All promoters in Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy & the UK!
There’s new music coming, new shows and who knows whats more to come in the next couple of years. One thing is for sure:
We don’t need our heroes
The tide is going to change
Got friends to believe in
As long as they will rise
Thanks, HR
Coen, Hans, Maarten & Wouter
Time for another blog you say?
Last few months have been amazing. We’ve shared stages with absolute legends; The Copyrights, The Casualties, Typesetter, Cornflames, The Smith Street Band, The Priceduifkes, …
But this next thing is something next level. We will play a sold out 013 with THE OFFSPRING and Good Riddance on June 16th. WellIBeDamned! We never thought this would happen. The press has been kind to us, too. We did interviews with 3FM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJzyXTPG_P4), 3voor12, BN De Stem..
And as if that wasn’t enough, we we’re asked to support The Flatliners and The Decline on their Amsterdam gig at the Sugarfactory, August 21st. This is madness!
Are there any goals left to accomplish? Maybe Groezrock? We don’t know. Maybe some day… All we know is that this years ‘program-booklet’ had a special announcement (click here to read). Yes, we will record a Split 7″ with Belgian megababes Coma Commander in the near future. Stay tuned for more updates on that one.
Hugs & kisses,
– The Realms
After a (well deserved?) holiday, we’re back to rock as never before. Our first gig will be August 25th, playing with The Smith Street Band and March. This will happen at the legendary Dynamo club, Eindhoven. Cool huh!
Our second gig is also a really cool one, ’cause our record label Shield Recordings is celebrating their 10th year of releasing the crème the la crème of Dutch punkrock and hardcore records. Mark your calendars now, September 26th at Hall Of Fame Tilburg, also playing are heroes The Real Danger, Accelerators, Sweet Empire, The Windowsill, Irish Handcuffs, Rivershores, Modern Saints, and more will be announced soon.
But wait! There’s more. October 3rd will see us returning to Belgium. We’ll be at Rogerfest V at Blue Jeans XL, Ravels-Eel. Other bands on the line-up are We’rewolves, Leave Scars, Kevlar, The Sedan Vault, Equal Idiots, and many more. Everyone loves Roger.
Our return to the stage wouldn’t be complete without a gig in, what could be described as our second hometown, Aachen, Germany. We’ll play the first edition of Full Disclosure Mini Fest, October 11th. Other bands on the line-up are Typesetter, Shango Nitra, Gedrängel, and many more. Show them your support.
More gigs will be added over here soon.
Looking forward to drink beer with each and everyone of you!
– HR
And so we write these words down after completing an awesome set of shows with Red City Radio, Pears, the Dutch Rudders, March, the Real Danger, Cheap Drugs, Priceduifkes and much more. We made a lot of new friends, we’ve seen so many beautiful places and drank so much lovely beers across Europe. It’s not that hard to say we had the best time of our lives the past couple of months. But as time passes on we thought it would be a good idea to take some time off to write new songs and to attend to other personal matters like cleaning the oven or checking our tires.
So for now we take a little break to return in August as fresh as a baguette du fromage on a Sunday morning! Hope to bring some new tunes to your ears at the shows that are planned after our little break. But for now you guys have to do it with our full length PØLP. We are happy as fuck with the fact that there are only 3 pink copies left of this record. So if you want one, take a fast look at our merchandise page or check out the website of our lovely friends and family of Shield Recørdings!
So we crawl back in to our little realms and wish all of you all the best for the next few months. And we kick some kontjes when we return after the summer!
– YIPPIEYAHOEDEL
Harsh Realms 