Doom and other old school metal influences form the base of Loose Licenses music throughout the years. Formed in 2010 by Markie (guitars), Mille (drums) and Brocki (vocals) the band started as a couple of friends playing, as so many other bands birth, "just for fun" in their local motorclub called "'t Los Plak". The English translation of that Clubs name "Loose License" gives them a justly stoner feel until today.
At the end of 2011 the band was completed by Pietn "Adolf Skullgrinder" who had been playing bass with Mille for over 10 years in the '80s and '90s in bands like Columbarium and Arachnophobia (with members of Anesthesy).
In 2012 Loose License released their first 3-track demo-CD with the songs " Alone", "Black Mountain" and "Forest of Doom" and started playing live gigs . Their music is influenced mainly by bands like Black Sabbath (who else ?), Sleep, Cathedral, Candlemass , Saint Vitus, Krux, Black Pyramid, Shrinebuilder, Egypt, Electric Wizard , Monolord , Elder , Chrch , Monolord etc ....In 2014 a special song was released "4 Years of Death", totally in memory of the Great War 1, in all honor and respect for the fallen, accompanied by a 1st videoclip on YouTube . It was the title track of a 1st full length album that was released in May 2015. Short after that release Loose License decided to move on as a 3-piece, with Pietn on vocals and bass. The guitars were tuned lower and by April 2016 a new videoclip "Inferno" announced a new era for the band. Since then the band has been welcomed in much music Clubs and venues. 2017 announces concerts with bands like Hedonist and Marche Funèbre, but more importantly 2 new video clips are awaited for a doomy track called "The Utopian Journey" and a rather more classical metal song "At the War Graves". At the End of January the band started playing "The Coronation of the Lizard" live, a 12 minute slow and low doomtrack .
In july 2017 Loose License decided to move on as a 4-piece now. Koen Biesbrouck (guitar player of Locus Control) join the band .) Koen gives us "Live" a fuller and heavier guitar sound and supports us here and there with a pinch of keyboard. October 2018 a new videosingle was launched "The Coronation Of The Lizard", this can be seen as a turning point for the band. The video was produced by Videohouse ZWIK and they filmed on 4 different locations. It took 8 months in total to finish this work. Amongst other great comments this videoclip was called one of the five most intriguing/nice videoclips by Belgian bands by Dutch well-known Rockportaal.nl. Also a special, unique cinema-edit of this film was shown in avant-première in a real cinemahall of the Buda Arts Centre cinescope in Kortrijk (B) on the 26th of October to introduce the videoclip to press, media, friends and fans. At the same time a new demo-cd "The Coronation Of The Lizard" was released with the title track, 'The Utopian Journey" and 'Inferno' which had not been released on cd before. On Armistice day on the 11th of November 2018 Loose License released a remixed version and new video of the "4 Years Of Death" song to honor the end of the Great War exactly 100 years ago. During 2019 we've got a lot of gigs and planning at the end of 2020 maybe a new CD. Unfortunately in march 2020 hell breaks loose with the corona pandemic . Until now (may 2021) we don't have any clue when we are able again to rehearsal and work as a band on our new songs we wrote during this time . But we'll coming back as soon we can that's for sure . Cya !!!
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