Legendary Rock Band The Grimm Producing New Hits After Half-Century Hiatus

In 2018, after a nearly 50-year hiatus, legendary rock band The Grimm reunited to reissue a single of two of its original hit songs, The Darkness and Night and 1400 Miles. The response from fans, both old and new, was nothing short of electric and inspired the band to officially re-form and begin producing and releasing new music.

Led by front-man and founder, Greg Ericksen, The Grimm is poised to release its fifth studio album, Grimm Fairy Tales, later this year. Even more impressive, the lead single from the album, Hit Me Now, climbed the Top40 charts and is under consideration for a Grammy nomination. The second single, Crawlin’, now released nationally to radio throughout the country and is already seeing incredible response.

“After a half-century break, the fans’ response to the re-release really inspired us to get the band back together and begin producing new music,” explained Ericksen.

Founded by Ericksen in 1961, the band, originally a folk group called the “Four/Fifths,” garnered attention by appearing on local television programs. The band converted to rock in response to ‘Beatlemania’ and in 1967, the Four/Fifths changed their name to “The Grimm”. Ericksen wrote his first hit song, titled “The Darkness and the Night” released on SVN Records. In 1968, “The Darkness and the Night” began climbing regional charts. Soon after, The Grimm was offered contracts with Warner Bros., Liberty, and Columbia Records.

The group was touring extensively and moving up regional radio charts, but the Vietnam War draft and Christian missions broke up the band right in the middle of contract negotiations. The Grimm had over 45 unreleased tracks ready to be released when the band dissolved putting an end to planned tours and the delay of a first full album release – a delay that would last 50 years. Fast forward to 2018, and The Grimm re-released its hit singles as well as a full album entitled ‘Lost Tracks.’ The Grimm is now comprised of Greg Ericksen, Joel Stevenett, Tommy Hopkins, Levi Wunderlich, Brett Raymond, and Andrew Doolittle.

“It was all possible thanks to original studio recordings of our songs being literally discovered in an attic,” remarked Ericksen. “The response was overwhelming! Sales of the album and the reappearance of original merchandise from the 1960s absolutely blew us away about the following The Grimm still has after all these years.”

The band is gaining more followers and garnering more attention all the time. The Grimm’s songs have recently charted on New Music Weekly, Mediabase and Music Row, which include A Mist is Risen and Where all My Little Girls Gone.

The Grimm’s music is streamed on all major platforms, including Spotify. The new Hit Me Now music video can be seen on YouTube. For more information about the band, visit THEGRIMM.COM.