- Listen to “DISSOLVER (Wire One Remix)”
- 'SONIC TRASH' Album Out Now
- ROMES U.S. TOUR w/ DES ROCS BEGINS MARCH 24th!
ROMES aren’t easing into 2026 quietly….they just flipped the switch and the voltage is spiking.
The Canadian electronic rock duo – brothers Jacob Bitove (lead vocals, bass, synths) and Nicolas Bitove (drums) – have announced their first-ever U.S. tour supporting Des Rocs, and they’ve dropped a high-impact remix of “DISSOLVER” that hits like a strobe light to the face. Titled “DISSOLVER (Wire One Remix)”, the rework teams them up with Detroit EDM riser Wire One and sharpens the original into a club-ready weapon.
And they’re doing all of this while their debut album, SONIC TRASH (independently released November 14, 2025), continues to rack up numbers – over 1.5 million streams and counting – purely through word of mouth.
No label machine. No industry hand-holding. Just volume.
ROMES coined their own genre: Punktronic – a fusion of analog grit and digital precision that pulls from ‘90s grunge, early-2000s electro, industrial, hip-hop, and dance-punk. It’s the kind of sound that feels like a warehouse rave colliding with a garage band mid-meltdown.
Their debut European headlining tour is currently underway – and it’s not just “going well.” It’s selling out.
”So many people are telling us after the shows that they stumbled across one of our videos on social media and immediately bought a ticket,” says Canadian electro-rock duo ROMES, as their debut European headlining tour continues to gain momentum, with multiple dates sold out or nearing capacity. “We’ve never played Europe before and never headlined a tour. To see rooms filling up night after night – and in some cities selling out entirely – is honestly blowing our minds.”
They didn’t build this audience the traditional way. They stayed deliberately under the radar, releasing music independently and letting it spread organically.
“The European crowds are all showing up in a big way and partying, whether it’s a Saturday night or a Monday. It’s just so cool to see everyone digging the show and we’re extremely grateful for it,” they explain.
“Everything definitely happened very organically,” they explain. “It probably started a couple of years ago when we began experimenting in our basement studio, integrating gear trying to come up with crazy sounds.”
That basement lab eventually became SONIC TRASH – a record stitched together from distortion, DIY experimentation, bloghouse-era chaos, and hard-hitting rhythms.
From the duo’s perspective of how their album came about, they describe the writing process as “the result of countless hours of experimentation in our basement studio. There was no framework or rules as to what the album should sound like. We just opened up our creative process to pull from all the influences we grew up with, primarily 90’s and early 2000’s electro, industrial, hip-hop, etc. All of those influences seemed to naturally find their way into the writing and combined into what became the record.”
“DISSOLVER” was already one of the record’s most industrial-leaning tracks. But when ROMES crossed paths with Wire One through Instagram, things escalated.
“We came across each other a few months ago on Instagram due to our shared love for early-2000’s electro,” they explain. “We get a lot of people DMing us wanting to do remixes, etc. but Wire One was maybe the first time where we were like ‘FUCK! This guy’s got chops.’ He’s putting a modern twist on the whole bloghouse electro sound and doing it just as good as anyone else these days. So when he asked about remixing ‘DISSOLVER’ it was a no brainer.”
The remix transforms the track into a streamlined electro banger without losing its teeth.
“His drum production in particular is insane. They smash you right in the face.”
It’s industrial edges polished into neon… sharper, faster, more lethal.
With European momentum surging, ROMES are bringing the chaos to the U.S., personally selected by Des Rocs frontman Danny Rocco for the upcoming run.
“A lot of people are also saying how our show combines so many elements of industrial, electro, punk, big beat, etc all the best stuff we grew up on in the 90s, so it’s cool to get the references and comparisons to some of our favourite artists,” they say. “At the end of the day, we’re not trying to sound like anyone else, but we mash up so many of those influences into our own sound.”
If the EU dates are any indicator, these won’t be polite opening sets. Expect distortion, sweat, and a rhythm section that feels like it’s physically rearranging your ribcage.
Before the tours and remix drops, ROMES built their audience through relentless sync placements – with music featured in The Sex Lives of College Girls, CSI: Vegas, video games like Madden NFL and Call of Duty: Black Ops, and major campaigns for Abercrombie & Fitch, the NBA, and MLB. They even hold a co-write credit with Mark Foster for the theme to CBC’s Strays.
On stage, they’ve shared bills with The Strokes, The Warning, Mutemath, and Saint Asonia – all while operating as a fully independent act and earning multiple Spotify editorial playlist cover placements.
They produce, mix, master, design, direct, and create everything themselves.
Basement studio to international stages.
Club remix to coast-to-coast U.S. run.
ROMES aren’t dissolving… they’re detonating. And the blast radius is only getting bigger.
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U.S. TOUR DATES
(Supporting Des Rocs)
March 24 – Dallas, TX – The Cambridge Room at House Of Blues
March 25 – Houston, TX – House of Blues Houston
March 27 – El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace
March 28 – Albuquerque, NM – Uptown Funk Dueling Pianos
March 29 – Phoenix, AZ – The Rebel Lounge
March 31 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre
April 1 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
April 3 – Portland, OR – The Get Down
April 4 – Seattle, WA – Hidden Hall
April 5 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory – Spokane
April 7 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
April 8 – Salt Lake City, UT – Soundwell
April 10 – Denver, CO – Marquis Theater
April 11 – Colorado Springs, CO – Black Sheep
April 14 – Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
April 15 – Saint Louis, MO – Delmar Hall
April 17 – Columbus, OH – Skullys Music Diner
April 18 – Ann Arbor, MI – Blind Pig
April 19 – Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern
April 21 – Worcester, MA – Palladium
April 22 – New York, NY – Gramercy Theatre
