Millencolin

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Millencolin
Millencolin, 2008
Millencolin, 2008
General information
origin Örebro , Sweden
Genre (s) Punk-rock , skatepunk , melodycore , pop-punk
founding 1992
Website www.millencolin.com
Current occupation
Nikola Sarcevic
Erik Ohlsson
guitar
 Mathias Färm
Fredrik Larzon (since 1993)

Millencolin is a Swedish punk rock band that was founded in October 1992 by Erik Ohlsson, Mathias Färm and Nikola Sarcevic in Örebro .

The band is often counted among the typical representatives of a punky, catchy and very harmonious melodycore sound, which became known as so-called skate punk .

history

All four members started skateboarding around 1987 , which made them popular with bands like Operation Ivy and Descendents . In 1992 they founded the band, their name is derived from the skate trick and the word melancholy . Her first demo tape was called Goofy and contained 10 songs. Fredrik Larzon joined the band in early 1993 and was the successor to the current guitarist Mathias Färm on drums. In the summer of 1993 their second demo tape was recorded, which was called Melack . With this they applied to the label Burning Heart Records , with which they are to this day. After they released two mini-albums there, their first album Tiny Tunes (1994) was released. After a lawsuit from Warner Bros. , the album name had to be renamed Same Old Tunes and the cover changed.

A year later, Life on a Plate was released , which reached number 14 in Sweden and made it internationally known. At the end of 1995 the band was contacted by Brett Gurewitz , the owner of Epitaph Records , who wanted to release Life on a Plate in the USA . He signed the band, and Life on a Plate was released in the US in March 1996. In the same year the band played almost 150 shows on various tours through Japan and Australia , two USA / Canada tours and various European festivals and one tour through southern Europe .

For Monkeys , the third album, was released in 1997. The title should first be called Four Monkeys , but was changed at the request of the record company. After the compilation The Melancholy Collection was released in 1999, the album Pennybridge Pioneers was released in 2000 , for many critics the best album, in which a slightly more rocking tone was slowly struck , which in the two following albums Home from Home (2002) and Kingwood (2005 ) is felt more strongly. The album also features the song No cigar , which can be heard in the computer and console game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 . The title of the album refers to their hometown, as Pennybridge is the English name for Örebro . In November 2004 they signed a recording deal for two more albums with Burning Heart Records .

With Machine 15 , another studio album was released in 2008 on the occasion of the band's 15th anniversary. In the following years the band limited itself to live activities. In 2012, The Melancholy Connection, another B-side compilation, was released as a “sequel” to The Melancholy Collection . It wasn't until the end of 2014 that the band announced that they were working on a new studio album. True Brew , the first studio album in seven years, was released in late April 2015 and marks a return to the fast punk rock of the band's first albums.

On February 15, 2019, the new album SOS was released on Epitaph Records , with which you went on a world tour.

Discography

Released on the Swedish record label Burning Heart Records / in the USA on Epitaph Records :

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
SE SE DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
1994 Tiny tunes SE21 (27 weeks)
SE 		- - - -
Re-released in 1998 as Same Old Tunes
1995 Life on a plate SE4 (17 weeks)
SE 		- - - -
1997 For monkeys SE17 (8 weeks)
SE 		DE72 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
2000 Pennybridge Pioneers SE33 (3 weeks)
SE 		DE32 (4 weeks)
DE 		- CH67 (4 weeks)
CH 		-
2002 Home from Home SE6 (5 weeks)
SE 		DE29 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT25 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH31 (6 weeks)
CH 		UK90 (1 week)
UK
2005 Kingwood SE2 (7 weeks)
SE 		DE46 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT41 (3 weeks)
AT 		CH59 (3 weeks)
CH 		-
2008 Machine 15 SE9 (3 weeks)
SE 		DE34 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT63 (3 weeks)
AT 		CH84 (1 week)
CH 		-
2015 True Brew SE22 (4 weeks)
SE 		DE28 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT21 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH27 (1 week)
CH 		-
2019 SOS SE15 (1 week)
SE 		DE19 (1 week)
DE 		AT22 (1 week)
AT 		CH21 (1 week)
CH 		-

Compilations

  • 1999: The Melancholy Collection (compilation from the first two EPs, all single B-sides and some new songs)
  • 2012: The Melancholy Connection (compilation from B-sides since Pennybridge Pioneers incl. 2 new songs Carry You and Out from Nowhere )

Demos

  • 1993: Goofy
  • 1993: Melack

EPs

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
SE SE
1993 Use your nose SE22 (13 weeks)
SE
Chart entry in SE only in 1995
1994 Skauch SE32 (2 weeks)
SE

More EPs

  • 1998: And the Hi-8 Adventure (soundtrack EP with live recordings)
  • 2001: Millencolin / Midtown (split EP)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
SE SE
1994 Da Strike
Tiny Tunes 		SE19 (8 weeks)
SE
1995 The Story of My Life
Life on a Plate 		SE10 (15 weeks)
SE
1996 Move Your Car
Life on a Plate 		SE9 (8 weeks)
SE
1997 Lozin 'Must
For Monkeys 		SE29 (5 weeks)
SE
2000 Penguins & Polarbears
Pennybridge Pioneers 		SE54 (2 weeks)
SE
2002 Kemp
Home from Home 		SE60 (1 week)
SE
2003 Battery Check / E20 Norr
Home from Home 		SE36 (5 weeks)
SE
2005 Ray
Kingwood 		SE21 (7 weeks)
SE
Shut You Out
Kingwood 		SE21 (1 week)
SE

More singles

  • 1997: Twenty Two
  • 1998: And the Hi-8 Adventure
  • 2000: Fox
  • 2001: No Cigar
  • 2002: Man or Mouse
  • 2008: Detox
  • 2008: Broken World
  • 2009: Örebro
  • 2015: Bring me Home

Video albums

  • Millencolin… and the Hi-8 Adventures (1999) - A 76 minute home video that includes live recordings and other material from Millencolin tours and skateboarding. In 2003 the video was released as a DVD version including an additional video clip about Kemp and a trailer for a follow-up video .

swell

  1. ↑ a b Millencolin - SOS. From Millencolin.com, accessed November 11, 2019.
  2. ↑ Biography ( Memento of August 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), official website.
  3. ↑ [1] Album release note. Official website. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c Chart sources: SE DE AT CH UK

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