Soldat Hans are a band from Winterthur, Switzerland. They play rather dark and heavy music, which scratches the realms of downtempo, slowcore, doom, post-rock, jazz, folk and psychedelic art-rock – by incorporating various instruments like guitars, bass, drums, organs & synthesizers, brass and strings.

The formation began as an instrumental noise collective playing solely improvised sets. Around 2013 they settled to write some material for their first album “Dress Rehearsal” which was released in November 2014. Taking their name from the old fairytale “Des Teufels russiger Bruder” by the brothers Grimm, the sound of Soldat Hans somehow still echoes the desolate feeling of this very tale. Their debut‘s approach was further underlined by their second release in 2018 called „Es Taut“. Their third album aptly titeld „Anthaupt“ was released in 2022. Soldat Hans is with the german label „Wolves and Vibrancy Records“.

Might be right up your alley, if you like Bohren & der Club Of Gore, Earth, A Silver Mt. Zion, GYBE!, Neurosis, Radiohead, Savoy Grand, Pink Floyd, Kayo Dot, Early Sci-Fi OSTs and some glasses of rather heavy red wine.

Justin Harrison - Drums
Omar Hetata - Guitar / Vocals
Omar Fra - Guitar
Tobias Pfennninger- Guitar
Jonathan Chaclan - Bass
Francesco Romano - Keys

soldathans.org
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soldathans.bandcamp.com
band@soldathans.org