S.A. Sanctuary
| S.A. Sanctuary | |
|---|---|
 in San Antonio with Saxon | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Texas |
| Genres | metal, thrash, death |
| Years active | 1987-1991, 1998-current |
| Status | active |
| Labels | Butchered Records, Roid Rage Recordings, 87811 |
S.A. Sanctuary (or SA Sanctuary) is a metal band from San Antonio Texas.
Contents
S.A. Sanctuary Biography
The band has gone through many members since it's inception. When the band started out in the early-mid 1980's, they were under the name Sanctuary. Later, a band from Washington State would use the name as well and get signed, so rather than feud over the name, former guitarist Velasquez opted to alter the band name from Sanctuary to S.A. Sanctuary to avoid confusion.
When the band started out, it was more of a metal / hard rock band, similar to Iron Maiden.
Through out time as members changed, so did the musical style of the band. Today they are mainly considered Thrash, with some material stemming into Death Metal.
The band has recently signed to Butchered Records.[1]
Discography
- The Battle - demo from 1998
- Rehearsal in Place 2000
- Abandon in Place (Demo) - original release from 2000
- Promises CD Single - released in 2002 (sources state Promises cd single will be re-released)
- Shred Your Head (live tour cd from 2009) Release TBA
- Abandon In Place - released on Butchered Records 2011
* It is said that an 8 - 10 song album titled, Download Humanity was partially recorded in 2003, but never finished. Rumored reasons were difficulties with former musicians and their unwillingness to get it finished.
DVD / video
Most of these are bootleged shows. Official releases are indicated as such.
- Live at Mustang Sally's - Jul 4, 2001 (San Antonio, TX)
- Live at Graffiti's Rock Room - Apr 13, 2002 (Dallas, TX)
- Live at Sunken Garden Theater - Aug 2, 2002 (San Antonio, TX)
- Live at Sunset Saloon - 2002 - ?/?/2002 (San Antonio, TX)
- Live at Medieval Knights - 2002 - Feb 2, 2002 (San Antonio, TX)
- Live at Club Blaze - June ?, 2002 (San Antonio, TX)
- Live at Cheerleaders Sports Bar March ?. 2002
- Live at Railhead Saloon - March ?, 2002 (Lawton, OK)
- Live at Medieval Knights - 2003 - March ?, 2003 (San Antonio, TX)
- Live at Sunset Station - 2003 Jun ?, 2003 (San Antonio, TX)
- Live at The Venue - Oct ?, 2005 - (San Antonio, TX)
- Live at Klub Krystal - ?/?/2006 - (San Antonio)
- Shred Your Head - May, 23, 2009 - (San Antonio, TX)
Current Members
- John Salazar - bass guitar
- Angel Fuentes - lead guitar and main voice
- Mike Reykjavik - drums
Past Members
- Orrie Velasquez - guitar and secondary voice
- Romeo CK Vallejo - bass (temporarily unavailable)
- Ted Wawrzyniak - bass
- Raul Gomez - drums (also past member of Redzer)
- Jerry Casterlano - lead guitar and then bass (parts of 2002 only, also past member of Redzer)
- Tony Ramirez - bass
- Rick Flores - bass
- Robert Esquivel - bass
- Danny Jimenez - bass
- Albert Solis - temp bassist
- Edward 'Eddie' Correa - keyboards (live only)
Notable Past Shows
notes
- The S.A. in S.A. Sanctuary, is an abbreviation for San Antonio (Texas), where the band started.
- Romeo Vallejo is their permanent bassist, but is currently unavailable for shows.(unknown reasons)
- S.A. Sanctuary launched abandon-in-place.com [2] for fans to buy their CD (Abandon In Place) at a lower cost than from retail outlets.
- The band have a 200lb metal gargoyle "mascot" named Willie.
- Their drummer lives in New Hampshire and fly's in for festivals and shows.
- In spring 2010, Angel Fuentes and Orrie Velasquez were guitar and bass tech for George Lynch's band, Souls of We during his South West USA leg of the tour. [3]
References
- ↑ S.A. Sanctuary sign to Butchered Records - http://www.pr.com/press-release/352642
- ↑ 'abandon-in-place.com'
- ↑ Velasquez, Fuentes, and Lynch, "‘Orrie and Angel work for Souls of We’", from S.A. Sanctuary official myspace page.
