Miocene (band)

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Miocene
General information
origin Walsrode (Germany)
Genre (s) Hardcore , New York Hardcore
founding 1991, 2016
resolution 2001, 2019
Website www.miozanhardcore.com
Founding members
singing
 Thorsten K.
guitar
 Olli G.
bass
 Frank Kurowski
Drums
 Harry S. (until 1995)
Last occupation
singing
 Mess
guitar
 Kniffel (since 2016)
guitar
 Outso Loch (since 2016)
bass
 Frank Kurowski
Drums
 Gerrit Stünkel (since 2018)
former members
guitar
 Kai H. (1992-2001)
guitar
 Carsten
guitar
 Tom
guitar
 Florian Müller (2016)
Drums
 Pill (1995-2001)
Drums
 Tomek (2016-2018)

Miocene was a hardcore band from Walsrode and the surrounding area that was active in the 1990s and 2010s .

history

The band was founded in 1991 under the name Cause for Concern, but quickly renamed. The band name is based on the eponymous age of the earth's history and was introduced by the first drummer Harry S. The first album was released in cassette format in 1992 and stayed in the top ten of the ZAP reader charts for over a year . Shortly thereafter, the band hired another guitarist, from whom they separated in 1994 in a dispute, but kept the set-up with two guitarists. After the release of the album Thorn in Your Side in 2001, the band split after touring with Kill Your Idols , as the members felt burned out. After the breakup, Kuddel and Kurowski formed the band Souls on Fire, which released an album on Knock Out Records . Kurowski also played for I Defy.

In 2009 the band got together for a concert at Conne Island in Leipzig. After another concert in 2014, Kuddel and Kurowski decided to work on material for a new album and thus for the band to reunite. Kurowski said he helped work on the album over his colon cancer. From 2016 the band was active again with three new members; Guitarist Florian Müller previously played with Dew-Scented . In the same year Miocene performed at the Endless Summer Open Air . A new album was released in 2017. In 2019, Kuddel left the band, which was then dissolved. The other members founded the band Ash Return together with the singer Christoph Süselbeck (formerly with the metal band Gloryful ).

Style and reception

The Ox-Fanzine described the band's music as "moshy hardcore old New York school with thoughtful and political lyrics" and made comparisons with Agnostic Front , Madball and Sick of It All . Ox editor David Häussinger described the Miocene as “one of the most respected bands in the scene”, whose first two albums “were very independent with their mix of old NYHC and British hardcore punk” and would have earned the band a “fan favorite” status. On the other hand, he saw the album Thorn in Your Side , which he reviewed , from “cultivated boredom”; the album's mid-tempo hardcore lacks "the fire and enthusiasm of the old stuff". Metal.de pointed out that the Miocene "had achieved considerable cult status through numerous loud and sweaty concerts". The 2016 album Surrender Denied sounds contemporary and down-to-earth and is characterized by the high speed and dynamics typical of hardcore, but is "skilfully crossed by melodies" and has "some metallic peaks" and non-hardcore tone sequences. For Rock Hard , editor Jan Jaedike wrote that Miocene "effortlessly transported the freshness and energy of the first American HC explosion into the mid-nineties". The magazine assessed that the hardcore scene was “sorely in need of a band like Miocene”. On the occasion of a review of the album Surrender Denied, the Australian magazine Heavy noted “strong political (...) messages” as well as “relentless hardcore, striking riffs, bone-ground breaks and anthemic singalongs”. The Miocene is an “essential hardcore band” that “exudes the spirit of hardcore with their hearts”. The magazine made comparisons with Warzone and Sick of It All.

Bassist Kurowski described the band's music as a “soundtrack for the attitude to life” or “hardcore with metal guitars”. Singer Kuddel highlighted Iron Maiden- like passages in an interview and described the music on the comeback album as "Youth Crew New York Oldschool with Spandex Pants". The band sees itself as politically motivated, albeit more strongly at the time the band was founded than a few years later.

Discography

  • 1992: Offer Resistance (no label)
  • 1993: Caught in Their Free World ( Per Koro )
  • 1995: Big Stick Policy (Defiance Records)
  • 1996: Nothing Remains ( Mad Mob Records )
  • 1998: Ignorance (Mad Mob Records)
  • 1999: When Revolution Is a Secret ... Unity Is the Key / Lost in the USA (Split EP with Cause for Alarm , Grapes of Wrath)
  • 2000: Thorn in Your Side (Mad Mob Records)
  • 2005: Offer Resistance (Wreed Records)
  • 2017: Surrender Denied (Demons Run Amok)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mad-Tourbooking.de: Miocene - A quarter century of hardcore history. Retrieved July 19, 2017 . (PDF, 1mb)
  2. ^ Peter Rupprecht: Miocene . In: Trust . No. 57, April 1996.
  3. ↑ a b c Joachim Hiller: Miocene - Positive Mental Attitude . In: Ox . No. 130, 2017.
  4. ↑ AwayFromLife.com: RIP Miocene - Hardcore legends dissolve. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Joachim Hiller: Miocene . In: Ox . No. 26, 1997, p. 41.
  6. ^ David Häussinger: Miocene - Thorn in your Side . In: Ox . No. 40, 2000.
  7. ^ Metal.de: Miocene - Surrender Denied. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Jan Jaedike: Miocene - Always nice on the bell . In: Rock Hard . No. 106, March 1996, p. 105.
  9. ↑ HeavyMag.com.au: Miocene: Surrender Denied. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .