  It is known that the Kuramoto-Velarde equation is globally well-posed on
Sobolev spaces in the case when the parameters $\gamma_1$ and $\gamma_2$
involved in the non-linear terms verify $ \gamma_1=\frac{\gamma_1}{2}$ or
$\gamma_2=0$. In the complementary case of these parameters, the global
existence or blow-up of solutions is a completely open (and hard) problem.
Motivated by this fact, in this work we consider a non-local version of the
Kuramoto-Velarde equation. This equation allows us to apply a Fourier-based
method and, within the framework $\gamma_2\neq \frac{\gamma_1}{2}$ and
$\gamma_2\neq 0$, we show that large values of these parameters yield a blow-up
in finite time of solutions in the Sobolev norm.
