Circa Regna Tonat
Alternative / Experimental / Progressive

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The Band

Adam Lewis - Drums/Vocals
Daniel Barnett - Guitar/Vocals/Bass
Jonny Lee Evans - Guitar
Rhys Griffiths - Bass/Vocals

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Circa Regna Tonat was formed in January 2006 by Adam Lewis, Daniel Barnett and Jonny Lee Evans through their mutual love of experimental music. The line-up was completed soon after by bassist Rhys Griffiths. Immediately, the band started building a strong reputation as a great live act on the South Wales circuit and have secured high profile support slots with the likes of Taint, Noxagt, An Albatross and Rolo Tomassi.

Adam T. Walton (BBC Radio Wales): "Excellent, original tunes"

'Buzz Magazine': "(CRT) can lurch out of the light and in to the shade with a snap of a chord, often to fine effect" and have described the music as, "Fat-arsed Instrumental Heaviness".

'Metro': "Whether it's the name of a black metal band or a Tool album, the deployment of Latin in modern music is almost invariably shorthand for po-faced heaviness and absurd portentousness. Happily, though Circa Regna Tonat have a name that would set the darkest of metallers aglow with envy, the Caerphilly quartet are cut from an altogether more colourful cloth. That's not to say they're not loud- they're very, very loud- but their experimental noise rock has as much light as shade, instrumentals marked as much by the subtle build up of tension as the pummelling, drum-dominated roar of their full stride. Their eight-track 2006 EP, Burning Witches For Glue, provides a decent introduction, but CRT are best sampled in the more visceral environment of a live show."

'Silent Words Speak Loudest': "as their name (Around the Throne Thunder Roars) and their friendship with Swansea Bruisers, Taint suggest, CRT make one hell of a racket. Propelled by awesome drumming... they're best when on the attack" (silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com)

'Black Cesar' (Taint Spin-off): "A TRULY UNIQUE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE!!! ONE MINUTE AN OBLITERATION OF MACHINE GUN RIFFS AND THE NEXT A PURE MUSICAL BEAUTY THAT SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING BUT DOES!!! SCHIZO NOISE ROCK FROM ONE OF THE U.K.'S MOST PROMISING GROUP OF ROCK FIENDS!!!"

'NP Life': "the drumming was amazing and the vocalist was equally good".