In December 2007, Dries Bongaerts and David Hermans met each other while playing in the streets of Antwerp. They've played some gigs as an acoustic duo in Antwerp and recruited Michiel Smit, a close friend of Dries, on the bass guitar. Michiel was still living in Holland at the time. We started our first room recording sessions at Dries' apartment in Antwerp. We were dedicated from the very beginning and we decided to rent an apartment for the band and go from there. We were in need for a drummer. Dries and Michiel both knew a drummer from Lommel who was really amazing, so we invited Jelle De Groof for a jam and he joined new rising sun in the spring of 2008.

We recorded our first demo ourselves and are pleased with the results. At the moment we try to gig as much as possible and we are getting very good responses. We are constantly writing new music and our live set is expanding fast so be sure to check us out some time! We also recruited Klaas Bongaerts as our manager and we are ready to take off, new rising sun style! Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.