SIKTH JOIN FACEBOOK AND OPEN A MERCH STORE BUT AREN’T REUNITING… YET
Heavy Blog is Heavy’s Alkahest is like the TMZ of prog metal; the dude picks up on so many Facebook and Twitter tidbits from prog metal bands in all corners of the world on such a regular basis that I’m convinced he’s either got an army of prog metal paparazzi or he just sits in front of the computer with Facebook on one monitor and Tweetdeck on the other while posting blogs to HBIH using his iPhone. I imagine his desk looks something like this. I mean that as a compliment, by the way, because Alkahest’s devotion to the interhole makes my job all that much easier.
This morning’s exciting news via Heavy Blog: posthumously legandary U.K. prog/tech metallers SiKth have launched an official Facebook page and opened a new merch store. But don’t get too excited just yet; SiKth claim they aren’t reuniting, at least not yet, but they’re certainly being awfully vague about their plans for the future and they’re certainly leaving the possibility open. Here’s the official statement from the band on why this, why now:
We’ve been blown away by the continued support we’ve had from our fans even though we split up a while back now. There’s been a constant demand for merchandise so we thought we’d make it happen. We are starting with one of the old designs. We intend to add more designs If all goes well.
And before you all ask, NO we are not reforming – not yet. Some point in the future maybe, but as for 2012, all we have for you is T-Shirts and a thank you for making us all feel proud of what we achieved in SikTh.
Odds of a full-on reunion with new music and touring are pretty high, I’d say: why go through the trouble of setting these two new sites up if that wasn’t the eventual plan? Sure, a merch store could provide a quick infusion of cash if any of the members were in a particularly rough financial spot, but that infusion wouldn’t be sustainable and that doesn’t seem a likely scenario anyway.
It certainly feels like a SiKth reunion could generate a ton of excitement and do really well, better than the band ever did when they were still together. As with many bands who are ahead of their time and inspire the birth of a subgenre, SiKth never really got the credit they deserve. The decision to break up the band could’ve ended up being the best decision SiKth ever made — they could’ve been lost in obscurity if they’d stayed together and road-dogged it out, but instead this lengthy hiatus makes them seem all that much more rare, special and legendary. As of the writing of this article, the one item in their new merch store is sold out already, so I guess a lot of people really do care, eh?
We’ll keep you posted on all things SiKth as they develop.
-VN
