Rhea shares new single 'Meet With You' | LIVE update

An anthem about reflection, recovery and making amends. Meet With You, RHEA’s first ever attempt at writing a slow song, puts the power back in ‘power-ballad’. “I guess with this one we dug a little deeper into story-telling and musical arrangements, while trying not to compromise on energy or rock ’n’ roll”, singer-songwriter Jorge Van De Sande explains. Insanely hooky and catchy, this is a HUGE song and definitely a soon to be classic!

Meet With You was recorded at Number Nine Studios in Ghent with legendary producer David Bottrill (Tool, Placebo, Smashing Pumpkins). It’s the second in a series of songs that will hit the airwaves in the next few months. RHEA will road test the new material with an extensive ‘back to basics’ club tour in Benelux, Germany and France

Since 2015 RHEA have been building it up old school. Writing better and better songs, playing show after show after show and converting casual listeners into rabid fans. In 2016 they made it into the final of Belgian’s leading alternative radio Studio Brussel’s talent competition De Nieuwe Lichting, but it wasn’t ‘till the release of single ‘Stuck In The Middle’ (2020) that everything clicked.

The track got massive radiosupport in Belgium and the band got invited on the biggest festivals, but then covid hit. Literally a day after the final recording for the EP ‘Lust For Blood Pt.2’, Belgium went into lockdown.

This was a major blow for both the band and singer Jorge Van de Sande, who was already going through a rough patch. Dreams and all sense of direction vanished, leaving only doubts and rock bottom. But they got back on their feet, and when ‘Rather Be Nothing’ (2021) topped Belgium’s most popular alternative chart list, it acted as a catalyst. The band got invited to open for Royal Blood and got a slot on the main stage of Rock Werchter.

It brought the band back together, making plans for new music. Van de Sande started writing songs again after an unusual one-year hiatus, drawing inspiration from the difficult time he and the band had gone through, but mainly focusing on the resilience to get back on your feet. It also inspired the band to explore existential questions, in a very un-Belgian ambitious way: don’t think too small, show audacity, stick your neck out. Questioning higher powers, both political and religious, RHEA are ultimately putting humanity back in the epicentre of it all.