Wednesday, 07 October, 2009
Enter Shikari are a four-piece rock band from St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Inspired by hardcore (in both the punk-rock and dance version of the word), drum’n’bass / dubstep, metal, premium strength lager and the web movie ‘Zeitgeist’, Enter Shikari make a music that tries its best to defy each of the tags people seem intent on forcing on it.
Despite being offered several major label record deals, their debut album Take To The Skies was released on their own label - Ambush Reality - in March 2007, reaching the dizzy heights of #4 in the UK’s official Album Charts and going on to sell over 100.000 copies in the UK (the album was released in Europe through PIAS, in North America on Ambush Reality / Tiny Evil, and in Japan on Hostess).
In March 2008, after spending 12 months on the road across the globe, Enter Shikari set up camp in their rehearsal room (a large shed in one of the band’s back gardens which they christened “The ‘Low”) to begin writing tracks for their second album.
In July they played to their largest live audience at the UK date of Linkin Park’s ‘Project Revolution’ travelling festival alongside JayZ, Pendulum and N*E*R*D, as well as playing several shows with Linkin Park in mainland Europe.
Enter Shikari followed a UK / Ireland tour in October 2008 with the release of a one-off single ‘We Can Breathe In Space, They Just Don’t Want Us To Escape’ (a finished version of a track the band demoed in 2005 but never got around to ever finishing properly until the summer 2008).
In mid-Novemeber 2008 the band started work recording their second album in a haunted mansion near the south coast of England. The album is roughly scheduled for worldwide release in April 2009.