Millencolin

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| years_active = 1992 – Present | country = Örebro, Sweden | music_genre = Punk Rock, Skate Punk | record_label = Epitaph Records/ Burning Heart Records |}}

Millencolin is a skate-punk band that was formed in October of 1992 by Erik Ohlsson, Mathias Färm and Nikola Sarcevic in Örebro, Sweden. Fredrik Larzon joined the band in early 1993 which cemented the lineup. Millencolin as a word derives from the skateboard-trick melancholy (also known as "sad air") because of their passion for skateboarding. The band releases their CDs on the Swedish label Burning Heart Records outside the US. Within the United States, Millencolin CDs are released with Epitaph Records.Since 2003, the band has hosted a skateboard contest at their own skatepark in Örebro, Sweden named the Millencolin Open. They say they started this annual contest because skateboarding is what brought them together and now they have the chance to make something good of their town and of skateboarding.

Biography

Millencolin initially sang in Swedish. Their first recording was a self-released 10 song tape entitled "Melack", recorded in 1993. Burning Heart Records subsequently contacted Millencolin expressing their wish to release a CD single. Burning Heart had previously only released two CD singles but they took their chance with the relatively unknown band. The band recorded the six song CD-single "Use Your Nose" in November 1993, which included new versions of "Pain" from Goofy and "Melack". The single was well received and the band began to play more live shows. They put out their first major release, "Tiny Tunes", in 1994. The recording and mixing of the album took two weeks.

Millencolin continued to tour and in 1995 brought out their second full length album "Life on a Plate". This coincided with Millencolin beginning to tour outside of Scandinavia. At the end of 1995, the US record company Epitaph wanted to release "Life on a Plate" in the US, and the band agreed. They then toured further afield, touring Japan, Australia and Canada, and played as part of the 1997 Warped Tour.

Further albums "For Monkeys" and compilation "The Melancholy Collection" followed, but the band's popularity increased in 2000 with the release of "Pennybridge Pioneers", an album with more of a rock infuence than the band's previous Skate punk sound. The recording took six weeks and they started their first major worldwide tour; "Pennybridge Pioneers Worldwide Tour". They also featured the song "No Cigar" on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 video game. Millencolin played in Wellington, New Zealand, followed by an Australian tour. This lead to an early release of the album in Australia and New Zealand.Millencolin wrote on tour and brought out "Home From Home" in 2002. The hit "Kemp" brought good success. While it was not as well received as the previous effort, songs like "Happiness for Dogs" and "Afghan" showed a stronger and rockier sound which would greatly influence their next album "Kingwood".

"Kingwood", released in March 2005, marked the band's return to a faster and more traditional punk rock sound, collaborating it with their recently founded rock sound, and completed a world tour in follow up of the album. The album debuted at #2 in the Swedish chart.

Recording Plans

Many sourced and unsourced statements have clamied Millencolin have plans to record a new album, possibly for a late 2006/early 2007 release on the Burning Heart Records label. The name "Tale Untold" has been rumored to be the aforementioned title along with "Can't Stop Us Now", "Wish Me Well" and "Novo Pt. 2" being song titles on the album. It has also been said to be a follow up on Kingwood, with the band staying at the recently returned faster and more "punk rock" sound.

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Contents

Millencolin

Biography

Recording Plans

Members

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