SONS

SONS  - Robin Borghgraef, Arno De Ruyte, Jens De Ruyte and Thomas Pultyn -  is one of the hardest-touring, hardest-hitting rock bands to come out of Belgium in the past decade. Since breaking through in 2018, the four-piece from Melsele has built its name the old-fashioned way: relentless live shows, three studio albums that each pushed the band somewhere new, and a growing reputation on festival stages far beyond home.The name says it all. SONS was formed by four childhood friends whose own fathers were pals, a band born out of family before it was ever a career. That story came full circle in 2018, when SONS won De Nieuwe Lichting on Studio Brussel. Jury member Jan Paternoster (Black Box Revelation) delivered the line that has followed the band ever since: “I'd be proud if my sons played in that band.”‍‍Three albums, one restless band‍Debut album Family Dinner (2019) introduced SONS' raw, garage-punk energy and took them touring across the Benelux, including support slots for Royal Blood and Wolfmother. The follow-up, Sweet Boy (2022), pushed the band's ambitions abroad: stages at Pinkpop, Pukkelpop, Down The Rabbit Hole, Into The Great Wide Open, Reeperbahn, Trans Musicales and Iceland Airwaves, two consecutive years on the Rock Werchter line-up, a support slot for Jack White, and a first real foothold in France, Germany, Switzerland and Greece. American radio station KEXP summed up the band's live reputation in two words: “sensational chaos.”With third album Hallo (2025),

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