Musta Paraati (Black Parade in English) are a Finnish post-punk/gothic rock
band, comparable to Killing Joke and Theatre of Hate. The original band
was active for only a few years in the early 1980s, but their lineup
changed many times before they dissolved circa 1984.
Original vocalist
Jore Vastelin (succeeded by Njassa and Epe Kronholm) died in 1993. The
early 2000s post-punk revival led to renewed appreciation for the band,
resulting in a CD release of their 1983 debut album Peilitalossa with several singles appended as bonus tracks.
Musta Paraati reunited in 2015 to play several concerts in Finland, including the Provinssirock festival in Seinäjoki on June 27.
This edition of the band featured the Peilitalossa-era lineup with Herra Ylppö of Maj Karma replacing the late Vastelin. The reformed band also announced that they were planning to record new material.
Members
Current reunion lineup:
Herra Ylppö (vocals)
Saku Paasiniemi (guitar)
Panda Nikander (bass)
Ykä Knuuttila (drums)
Jari Kääriäinin (keyboards)
Former members:
Jore Vastelin (vocals; also guitar at the beginning)
Njassa (vocals)
Epe Kronholm (vocals)
Sande Vettenranta (drums)
Jesu Hämäläinen (keyboards)
Gabi (drums)
Discography
Studio albums
Peilitalossa (English: In the House of Mirrors) (1983, Johanna; 2012, Svart Records)
Rabauken was a German Oi!Music Band, which operated until 2001. It was founded at the beginning of the 1990s by the brothers Mario and Bernd Zippel in Erkrath. The latter was also a member of the band Verlorene Jung.
Musical origins were in the English Punk and Oi! Music movement in the early
80s, with bands like Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Toy Dolls, Cockney
Rejects, Stiff Little Fingers... The band was always credited with a connection to the neo-Nazi scene, although this accusation was vehemently denied by the band.
"Bernd", singer and guitarist of the band, took up the accusation again
in an interview with the nonpolitical skinhead website Oi-Vision.de from
10 June 2001 and referred to the song "Revolution", in which the band
in his opinion clear Position against any political radicals.
The band
sees itself as apolitical, the often criticized song "Our Fatherland" is
an expression of patriotic pride, but far from being right-radical. The constitutional protection NRW first learned from the band in 1993 at
a celebration of a boy nationaldemocrat member. According to the
constitutional protection, "some of the seven concerts that have become
known between 1996 and 2001" have come to "Sieg-Heil-Rufen" and to the
"Hitler-Grußes" .
At a performance with the bands Trabireiter and
Chaoskrieger, the audience sang the Horst Wessel song. Albums from
the rabbits were also offered in right-wing extremist distributors like
Hanse Records or White Music.
In addition, the band was accused of
cooperating with right-wing bands. Oliver Lange, a former band member,
also played for a time at the right-wing extremist band Starkstrom.
Discography:
1992 Der erste Streich (Demokassette)
1993 Warte, warte nur ein Weilchen (LP/CD, Dim Records)
1994 Weltmeister (EP, Dim Records)
1996 All die Jahre (Picture-LP/CD, Dim Records)
1999 All die Jahre (LP, Dim Records)
1999 Hey mein Freund (LP/CD, United Kids Records/Oi Hammer)
Wiederveröffentlichungen
2006 Warte, warte nur ein Weilchen (CD, United Kids Records)
2006 All die Jahre (CD, United Kids Records)
2006 Hey mein Freund (Psycho T., / United Kids Records)
Grauzone is most famous for their 1981 hit "Eisbär" ("Polar Bear"). The single charted at #12 in Germany and #6 in Austria. In addition to "Eisbär" they had some success with the singles "Film 2" and "Wütendes Glas".
History
Foundation
At the end of 1979, Marco Repetto (drums) and GT (bass) left the punk
band Glueams to form a new band called Grauzone with Martin Eicher
(guitar, vocals, synthesizer). Martin had already supported Glueams on
their single '"Mental". They gave their first concert in March 1980 at
club Spex in Berne. Martin's brother Stephan Eicher
(guitar, synthesizer), Max Kleiner and Claudine Chirac (saxophone)
supplemented the group temporarily in live appearances and recordings.
After ten concerts, four singles and an album the group split up at the end of 1982.
After Grauzone
GT
and Marco Repetto formed a new band Missing Link, later Eigernordwand,
with the former Glueams guitarist Martin Pavlinec and the drummer
Dominique Uldry. GT supplemented the futurism
oriented performance group "Red Catholic Orthodox Jewish Chorus" around
performance artist Edy Marconi, in which occasionally Marco Repetto
also played. Later the group changed their name to I Suonatori. Stephan Eicher started a successful solo career.
In 1988, Martin Eicher published his solo-EP Spellbound Lovers. In 1989, Marco Repetto started a new career as a Techno and Ambient DJ, musician and producer (a.o. mittageisen v2).
Discography
Studio albums
1981 - Grauzone (D No. 37)
Compilation albums
1998 - Die Sunrise Tapes
2010 - Grauzone 1980-1982double album - remastered
Ultima Thule (Latin for "Farthest North") is a Swedish rock band. Their style is based on what they call Vikingarock ("Viking rock"), which combines occasional folk melodies with rock, mixed with Oi!, street punk and Teddy Boy. Some of their lyrics are versions of poems and traditional songs by Evert Taube, such as "Änglamark". They have also released several versions of Sweden's national anthem, "Du gamla, Du fria'". They have been described as a white power band, though ethnomusicologist Benjamin R. Teitelbaum disputes this classification.
För Fäderneslandet is Ultima Thule's most popular album, selling more than 100,000 copies. Vikingabalk, their second best selling album, went gold with more than 80,000 copies sold.
History
Ultima Thule was founded in early 1984 in Nyköping, Sweden. Band members have cited the Sex Pistols and late seventies punk rock
as their main inspiration. Their songs were a mixture of Nordic folk
music, rock and punk. The group has described this particular style of
music as Vikingarock.
After a few years as an underground band, the band entered the
mainstream in the early 1990s when they signed a record deal with Mariann Grammofon. Following media controversies,Mariann Grammofon quickly cancelled their record deal with Ultima
Thule. After that, the band created their own record label, named Ultima
Thule Records.
Ultima Thule has sold one certified platinum and three gold albums in Sweden, and managed to have three singles on the 20th-best hits list at the same time. Their lyrics are mostly in Swedish, with only a few songs in English, including covers of bands such as Sham 69 and Ronettes.
Criticism
The band's first EP was sponsored by Bevara Sverige Svenskt ("Keep Sweden Swedish") and was used as a campaign theme by Sverigepartiet. Some of their songs were included on compilation albums with bands like Skrewdriver and Brutal Attack.
Their first vocalist, from 1984 to 1986, Bruno Hansen, was the leader of the Nyköping "action group" of the Nordic Reich Party, and some music critics classify the band as White Power music.
Ultima Thule successfully entered the mainstream when they were signed up by Bert Karlsson, a record manager and founder of the New Democracy party. The band seems to have had a mail-order distribution deal with the record company Ragnarock at some stage.
Between 1984 and 1987 the band played at about 30 skinhead concerts. On 6 June 1987 they played together with Agent Bulldogg, Vit Aggression and Dirlewanger at a white power concert in Södertälje. On 30 November 1991, the band played at a white power concert with Vit Aggression and Division S.
In 1994 Ultima Thule opened a record store, CD-butiken, where they
sold records by Heroes in the Snow, Svastika and Vit Aggression. The band also started a fan club that at one point had as many as 900 members. Through the club they sold records, posters and T-shirts, not only for their own band but also for the record companies Last Resort Records and Ragnarock Records. Ultima Thule's recording studio in Nyköping was burnt to the ground by arsonists on 10 February 2000.
Band's reaction
In
response to the allegations of racism, the band has issued a statement
on their website making clear they do not consider themselves racist,
nor are they neo-nazis. In their own words,
"This country must ask itself about its mental health, when
patriotic songs about Sweden, when texts from our history books, are
deemed equivalent to racism. [...] We live in an increasingly shrinking
and globalised world and in one way, it is important for people to know
their own roots and for people to feel their national pride. If we
Swedes are not allowed to show esteem and pride about our own country
without being called racists, this makes much more difficult to show
others respect for their own particular identity and singular
characteristics. [...] We have taken note of our right to be proud of
our own country and we do not tolerate some obscure publication linking
our music with racism and Nazism."
During a concert in 2001 some members of the audience made Hitler salutes. The band stopped playing to make clear that they did not want to be seen playing for Nazis.
Seppo Ahlstedt and Janne Vilen want to merge the Finnish essence in to
their hard hitting oldschool EBM. It’s about raw bass-lines, manly
attitude and love for old school synthesizers and sound.
To add
something new to this soup, Oldschool Union used their native language
to successfully form the first old school EBM band in Finland. Lyrics
are Finnish but the themes are global; songs about corrupted politicians
and epic tales from the lives of men.
Formed
in 1978 in Long Beach, T.S.O.L. originated as a punk band, developing
from earlier bands SS Cult and Johnny Koathanger and the Abortions. The
original lineup consisted of vocalist Jack Grisham (who has been credited as Jack Greggors, Alex Morgon, Jack Ladoga, Jack Delauge and Jack Loyd, among pseudonyms), guitarist Ron Emory, bassist Mike Roche and drummer Todd Barnes.
Later in 1978, Grisham and Barnes formed Vicious Circle, and T.S.O.L.
took a brief hiatus (in 2013, TKO Records released an eponymous Vicious
Circle EP, composed of circa-1979 rehearsal tapes).
T.S.O.L.'s debut five-song EP, T.S.O.L., was released in spring 1981 by Posh Boy Records,
featuring the reconvened original lineup. This first release was
harshly political, featuring tracks such as "Superficial Love," "World
War III" and "Abolish Government."
Their first full-length album, Dance with Me, was released later in 1981 on Frontier Records, and showcased a more gothic/deathrock sound. They then signed to independent label Alternative Tentacles, releasing the Weathered Statues EP early in 1982, and the melodic Beneath the Shadows album later that year; the latter featured a new member, keyboardist Greg Kuehn.
Amid personal turmoil, Grisham, Barnes and Kuehn all left the band in 1983.
After his exit, Grisham formed Cathedral of Tears, who released a 1984 EP on Enigma Records, followed by Tender Fury, who issued three albums: Tender Fury (1988), Garden of Evil (1989) and If Anger Were Soul, Id Be James Brown (1991).
T.S.O.L., however, chose to reconfigure. Bad Religion bassist Jay Bentley briefly joined in 1983 before Roche returned. Joe Wood (formerly of Der Stab,
and Grisham's then-brother-in-law) and Mitch Dean joined on vocals and
drums, respectively. This new lineup released three albums on Enigma: Change Today? (1984), Revenge (1986) and Hit and Run (1987). All three albums featured a more polished production style, with Hit and Run reaching No. 184 on the Billboard 200 charts, and the band toured globally to support the releases. The band's first live album, Live, was issued by Enigma in 1988.
The band became friends with Guns N' Roses, and T.S.O.L. T-shirts were seen in the video for that band's "Sweet Child o' Mine", most notably on drummer Steven Adler.
Emory left the band in 1988, during the recording of demos for Strange Love, leaving Roche as the sole remaining original member. though Emory was given a writing credit on the track "Blow by Blow". T.S.O.L. were joined briefly by guitarist Scotty Phillips, who quit before the band started recording the follow-up to Hit and Run. They eventually hired former Dino's Revenge guitarist and actor Marshall Rohner. They released a blues-metal album, Strange Love, in 1990. Roche quit shortly before the album release, leaving the band with no original members. A compilation album titled Hell and Back Together 1984–1990 was issued in 1992 with an emphasis on their metal era. Murphy Karges (later of Sugar Ray) replaced Roche on bass; he was then replaced by touring bassist Josh Also.
This late-'80s lineup was popular enough to garner bookings in Brazil
and Argentina, where the Grisham-led band held no legal rights to
prevent Wood from gigging as T.S.O.L. In 1996, Wood and Dean were joined
by guitarists Mike Martt and Drac Conley, and bassist Dave Mello (from Uniform Choice),
with Dean subsequently replaced by Steve "Sully" O’Sullivan. Also in
1996, Wood formed ongoing blues band Joe Wood & the Lonely Ones
(also including O'Sullivan). Wood later recorded as Orange Wedge in 1993 (with Dean Chamberlain of the Motels and Christopher Scott "Wag" Wagner of Mary's Danish) and Cisco Poison in 1995 (issuing the It's a Long Way to Heaven... album).
Meanwhile, the original members began playing shows under the name
T.S.O.L, featuring the band's early material. They often played the same
cities, on the same nights, as the other T.S.O.L. Since Wood and Dean
now owned the rights to the name T.S.O.L., they threatened to sue the
original members, who released the Live '91 (Triple X Records)
live album of their early material, under the name "Grisham, Roche,
Emory and Barnes" but stopped playing together soon after its release.
They also did some gigs during this time as "LOST" (T.S.O.L. backwards).
Grisham and Emory formed the Joykiller in 1995, releasing three albums prior to disbanding in 1998.
In 1999, the original members fought with Wood for rights to the name and won. They joined the Vans Warped Tour, playing for the first time in years under the name T.S.O.L.
Barnes died of a brain aneurysm on December 6, 1999, at the age of
34. The remaining members recruited drummer Jay O'Brien (formerly of All
Day, later of American Jihad) and released the "Anticop" single (2001)
and the albums Disappear (2001) and Divided We Stand (2003), all on Nitro Records, the latter of which featured Kuehn back on keyboards as well as Billy Blaze replacing O'Brien. Anthony "Tiny" Biuso (formerly of Rude Awakening, Bad Xample, Full Metal Racket and the Dickies; also later of Hed (pe) and Doyle)
joined the band on drums in December 2003 and remained until 2014,
serving as the longest standing drummer in the band's three-decade
history. He first recorded with the band on 2005's Who's Screwin' Who? (Anarchy Music), a revamping and rerecording of 18 of T.S.O.L.'s greatest hits (it was later reissued under the titles F#*k You Tough Guy: The Collection, by Cleopatra Records, and Code Blue, by Anarchy).
In November 2006, the band announced they were breaking up, with final performances having taken place earlier in the month. In September 2007, Cider City Records released the seemingly posthumous live album Live from Long Beach,
recorded in November 2006 on the weekend of the band's two announced
"farewell" performances. Their hiatus was short-lived, however, as they
returned to perform local shows in late 2007. They also headlined the
"Fuck the Whales, Save a Chckn" benefit in February 2008, held to help
with cancer treatment bills for guitarist Craig "Chckn" Jewett of D.I.
In December 2008, the band entered the studio to record Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Free Downloads, which was made available as a free download through sponsor Hurley International's website on January 8, 2009. It was also released on vinyl by DC-Jam Records on November 1, 2009.
Grisham launched another project, Jack Grisham and the Manic Low, in 2011; a debut album, Songs for an Up Day,
was released in June 2012. He also formed Jack Grisham's LOST Soul in
2012, a gigging ensemble featuring Kuehn and Biuso, with the intent of
performing T.S.O.L. and the Joykiller material.
On April 20, 2013, T.S.O.L. released a 7" EP, You Don't Have to Die (TKO Records), for Record Store Day, composed of the title track (an unreleased 1980 demo) and two 1981 live tracks. That same year, the band toured Europe and South America; they also completed a US tour with Flag.
In 2014, Biuso left the band. He was replaced first by touring member Sean Antillon (a member of numerous bands including Corrupted Ideals, the Gears, Stains, the Skulls, the Weirdos and the Duane Peters Gunfight), then officially by Matt Rainwater (of the Joykiller)., and in 2016 by Chip Hanna.
On January 27th 2017 T.S.O.L. put out their new album The Trigger Complex on Rise Records
Film
In 1981, director Paul Young made Urban Struggle: The Battle of The Cuckoo's Nest,
a film which featured live performances by T.S.O.L. as well as several
Orange County punk and hardcore bands. Dave Markey's 1982 film The Slog Movie also featured live T.S.O.L. performances.
The discography of T.S.O.L., an American punk rock band, consists of eleven studio albums, three live albums, three compilation albums, two EPs, two video albums, three singles, and five music videos. T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty) formed in Huntington Beach, California in 1978 with an initial lineup of singer Jack Grisham, guitarist Ron Emory, bassist Mike Roche, and drummer Todd Barnes. Their eponymously titled debut EP was released in 1981 through Posh Boy Records and followed later that year by the full-length album Dance with Me through Frontier Records, combining hardcore punk and gothic rock styles. The Weathered Statues EP (1982) and Beneath the Shadows album (1983) followed via Alternative Tentacles, the latter adding keyboardist Greg Kuehn to the lineup.
Grisham and Barnes left the band in late 1983 and were respectively
replaced by Joe Wood and Mitch Dean, while Keuhn left and was not
replaced.
The new lineup signed to Enigma Records and released Change Today? (1984), which found them moving away from punk rock in favor of a gothic rock sound. 1986's Revenge was another stylistic shift, this time towards hard rock. Hit and Run (1987) found them adopting a glam metal persona and sound and was their only album to chart, reaching no. 184 on the Billboard 200. It was followed by the compilation album Thoughts of Yesterday: 1981–1982 (1987) and live album Live (1988). Emory then left the band and was eventually replaced by Marshall Rohner; This lineup released 1990's Strange Love. Roche then quit, leaving the band with no remaining original members. The compilation Hell and Back Together: 1984–1990 was released in 1992.
Meanwhile, the original T.S.O.L. lineup of Grisham, Emory, Roche, and Barnes re-formed and released Live '91. In the wake of the 1990s punk rock revival, Epitaph Records re-released Dance with Me in 1996 and Nitro Records re-released the T.S.O.L. and Weathered Statues EPs as a single compilation.
In 1999 the original members regained legal rights to the band's name
from Joe Wood, though Barnes died of a brain aneurysm that December and
was replaced by Jay O'Brien.T.S.O.L. signed to Nitro, who reissued Beneath the Shadows. A new studio album, Disappear, was released in 2001 and found the band returning to their hardcore punk roots. Live from O.C., a video album recorded in 1991, was released in 2002. O'Brien was replaced by Billy Blaze for 2003's Divided We Stand, which also featured the return of keyboardist Greg Kuehn. In 2005, with new drummer Anthony "Tiny" Buisu, the band released the video album Live in Hawaii and the retrospective album Who's Screwin' Who?, the latter consisting of songs from T.S.O.L., Dance with Me, Weathered Statues, Beneath the Shadows, Disappear, and Divided We Stand re-recorded by the 2005 lineup (originally released through Anarchy Music, it was later re-released by Cleopatra Records under the titles F#*k You Tough Guy: The Collection and Code Blue). T.S.O.L. went on hiatus in 2006, and Nitro reissued Dance with Me the following year.
The hiatus was short, as T.S.O.L. began performing again in 2007. 2008 brought The Early Years Live video and the live album Live from Long Beach, recorded at their last show before the hiatus and released through Cider City Records. The band's tenth studio album, Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Free Downloads, was released in 2009; It was given away as a free music download through a sponsorship from Hurley International. T.S.O.L.'s most recent studio album, The Trigger Complex, was released in January 2017 through Rise Records, with Buisu replaced by new drummer Chip Hanna
The
following T.S.O.L. songs were released on compilation albums. This is
not an exhaustive list; songs that were first released on the band's
albums, EPs, or singles are not included.
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