They Stole
A Million? They did steal their name from an old Commodore 64
game, that's for sure. However, they don't play minimalist electronic
dance music, they play full-on, in-your-face, heavy-on-the-guitars
punk rock. But not in the presently prefered garagey rockin'n'rollin'
sense of the word, but in the more contemporary, more hardcore
sense. Ok, they may not sound like The Clash or Black Flag or
(insert your favourite punk holy cow), but they do remind of
the melodic assault of Mike Ness's White Light White Heat-era
Social Distortion or such early 90's British punk icons as Leatherface
or Snuff. Or some of the rougher acts of the emo punk scene,
but without the cuteness and the pretense.
Idle is
They Stole A Million's debut single, brilliant in its simplicity,
a straight-forward song that sports a huge wall of loud, screeching,
ringing guitars and a fair amount of sheer inner rage splattered
all around it's three intense minutes. Flipside's Housewarming
Party represents the band's subtler tones and more dynamics.
Rhythm Barrel
Records invites you to meet and greet this up'n'coming quintet
from Turku, Finland. There's more to come from where this came
from.
Band contact:
They Stole A Million
c/o Mirko Metsola
Puutarhakatu 37 A as 1
FIN-20100 TURKU
Finland
e-mail:
[email protected]
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