The group’s style is high-density hard rock, with electrifying resonance and pristine vocal harmonies. Frazier met the group in 2015 while performing with another band and became Sonar’s third drummer. Wise came on board in 2016 after seeing Sonar Lights perform in Denton, just at a time when the previous bass player was leaving. The group later narrowed to a power trio with new members on bass and drums. The album received national and international attention, including garnering airplay on stations in Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, and South Africa. Kimsey was so impressed with Sonar Lights, he agreed to produce Babelonia. Mediatech is also where Miadis met Tim Kimsey, a Grammy-winning sound engineer. The group released its debut album, Here We Are, in 2012. Miadis soon met Roy Oteo, a drummer who had trained with a marching band, and, along with Daniel Schmuck and Artel Vincent, formed an early version of Sonar Lights in 2011.
Recording musicians made finding bandmates easy. In 2006, Miadis made the move to Dallas to study sound engineering at the Mediatech Institute. Later, Miadis moved to Belgium, where he studied classical guitar and jazz drums at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, performing in venues across Belgium, France, Germany, and Holland. The teenage prodigy began to open for a number of Greek bands, expanding his name recognition at a young age. While Miadis was still a teenager, his guitar teacher invited him to join his Latin-style musical ensemble as a rhythm guitarist. At age 12, he enrolled in the National Conservatory in Athens for classical guitar and music theory. Early on, he learned to play the guitar while also mastering other instruments such as the bouzouki, oud, and cumbus. Born in Boston, he grew up in Athens, Greece (his parents’ homeland). The band recently released the first single from the upcoming LP, and they plan on dropping a new tune every couple of months until the album comes out in the winter. Currently, the trio, including Ian Frazier on drums and percussion and Darren Wise on bass, is working on its third album, At the Edge of the World. The band recently returned from the Midwest, where they wrapped up the final leg of their latest tour. George Miadis is the songwriter and frontman of Sonar Lights, a Fort Worth-based hard rock group whose powerhouse stage presence carries the audience from a simmer to a boil with explosive force. Anthony Mariani, Fort Worth Weeklyīy Linda Blackwell Simmons - July 10, 2019 The black-and-white art accompanying “Brink of Failure” by Basilisk Studios is of several silhouetted figures in front videoing Lady Liberty as she is consumed by smoke. Percolating beneath original audio of George Orwell reading his famous quote about dictatorships, the trio’s thundering, Tool-esque riffage and rhythms conjure a hellscape, maybe/possibly one where the religiously righteous “law and order” contingent has assumed total control. Sonar Lights does cock rock one better by standing for something. Sure, it’s associated with tough white guys, but that musicianship has to count for something. And for another reason, cock rock is unnecessarily maligned.
I guess when reaching for the stars, bands think movers and shakers will notice “Dallas” way more easily than “Fort Worth” on promo sheets. Most of all, I love Sonar Lights for claiming “Fort Worth” instead of “Dallas,” which is unusual for bands of this hard-rocking, metallic stripe. "Cool New Local Tunes - Sonar Lights' "Brink of Failure""
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