Sonar is a Belgian musical group. Sonar combines

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, and industrial music. Sonar was formed as a side-project of noise artist

Dirk Ivens Dirk Ivens is a Belgian musician and performer in the industrial music genre. Career In 1978 he started as singer and guitar player in the punk band Slaughterhouse but left the group after one year to form the new band The Few. In 1980 he forme ...

in 1996. At first, Ivens employed the help of Patrick Stevens. Later, Eric Van Wonterghem, who had worked with Ivens in

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, joined Ivens as the second member of Sonar. Sonar toured in Europe with Canadian music project Decoded Feedback in 2001.

Discography

Music festivals

Sonar performed at: * Infest, United Kingdom (2002, 2011) * Kinetik, Canada (2008) * Maschinenfest, Germany (2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014) *

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, Germany (2002)

References

Belgian industrial music groups Noise musical groups Musical groups established in 1996 {{Belgium-band-stub