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Millencolin signs with Burning Heart (again!)

Posted by adam on Tuesday, November 30, 2004 at 9:28 PM (EST)

Sweden's Millencolin have signed with Burning Heart Records, again. The band has been without a contract since Home From Home completed their previous deal. This was announced on their website this past week, "We are, after a long time of looking around, super stoked to announce that we are back home again with Burning Heart in Europe and licensed to Epitaph in the US, Shock in Australia and JVC in Japan!." Burning Heart head Peter Ahlqvist commented "We love the band and its members as family. I'm very proud that the band has put their trust in us as a label, and it's going to be great working with the band in the future."

The first release on the new two album deal will be the band's recently completed full length. The still untitled album will be out in March or April of 2005.

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Pacer (November 30, 2004)

First - millencolin rock like fuck.

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Someone (November 30, 2004)

you are very correct, yes you are!

fritobandito (November 30, 2004)

I'll always have a special place in my little heart for millencolin. they were one of my gateway bands after all.

swingline (November 30, 2004)

real punx dont have gateway bands!!!

Someone (November 30, 2004)

....they just wake up with a mowhawk one day, full-fledged punks

swingline (November 30, 2004)

metallic pyramid spikes grow from their pores!

Someone (December 1, 2004)

and hygiene products reject them!

Someone (December 1, 2004)

..then their bodies crave alcohol in place of meat.

jamespastepunk (December 1, 2004)

I can still remember the first time I heard "No Cigar"...

Someone (December 1, 2004)

hell yeah me too what a dissapointement

Someone (November 30, 2004)

HA! I guess Sony rejected them.

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Someone (November 30, 2004)

were they rumoured to be interested in them or are you just cracking jokes?

Someone (November 30, 2004)

Neither, he's just a fucking tit

SteveJonesTheRealBones (November 30, 2004)

these guys are tired. tired. man, are they tired. - jones the bones - stevejopnes8770@yahoo.com

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Someone (December 2, 2004)

dear steve: please die. Perferably in as painful way. love, humanity.

Someone (November 30, 2004)

I like The Falcon ad. Except for the lack of info.

Someone (November 30, 2004)

Please Millencolin, bring back the ska.... -Chinatown

Someone (November 30, 2004)

Did the dude ever find his handicapped brother?

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Someone (December 1, 2004)

i dont think so, on nikola's solo album there is a song that makes it sound like he died

Someone (December 1, 2004)

How is the solo album? I haven't heard it yet.

Someone (December 2, 2004)

some decent songs most are really cheesy lyrics, its good for something different its not nearly as good as greg graffins solo album

Someone (December 2, 2004)

i think cheesy lyrics can be forgiven since english isn't his native language

Someone (November 30, 2004)

Ah.... the prodigal sons. Tis far better to be redeemed than be rich forever.

eyvert (November 30, 2004)

bhoa! looking forward to the next record.. heard they're like they used to be again. home from home was a dissapointment...

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Someone (December 1, 2004)

yeah it said on their website that they'll be writin faster, more "punk songs", or somethin to that nature

Someone (December 2, 2004)

isn't that what bands always say when their previous album sucked and/or wasn't well received?

Someone (December 1, 2004)

Funny, isn't Burning Heart basically owned by Epitaph anyway?

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hars (December 1, 2004)

epitaph owns 49%

Scootz_McNasty (December 1, 2004)

You gotta hand it to millencolin. that's integrity. They, without a doubt, must have been courted by every corporate label on this planet, and still stick with BR. These guys remain one of my favorite bands, and one of the bands that really got me into punk. I still remember the first time I heard Millencolin: On the computer at my grandparents house, summer of 2000, "Penguins and Polarbears." fucking amazing song from one of my favorite records.

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Someone (December 1, 2004)

no, they shopped around, no one wanted them, and they had no choice but to come crawling back to burning heart. or i could just be talking out of my ass. or so could you. WHO THE FUCK KNOWS?

Scootz_McNasty (December 1, 2004)

I wouldnt be surprised if you were dead wrong.

jamespastepunk (December 1, 2004)

I don't know who you are but that's one of the most intelligent posts on here. You could be Mr. Brett. You could not be, WE DON'T KNOW.

Someone (December 2, 2004)

damn I feel old...

Someone (December 1, 2004)

Their albums on Epitaph: good Their albums on Burning Heart: poor (Pennybridge) to awful (HFH) So I think it's looking good for them. Epitaph's punk bands (the few that remain) have delivered some pretty decent stuff as of late. -Chinatown

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Someone (December 1, 2004)

What? Haven't all their releases been on Burning Heart, then relicensed to Epitaph?

Someone (December 1, 2004)

yeah, millencolin has been signed to burning heart since 92, in 96 bh licenced their records to epitaph for distribution in america

Someone (December 4, 2004)

Pennybridge Pioneers is the greatest album ever. I am right and you are wrong.

Someone (December 1, 2004)

I actually know what's up since I live in Sweden and were at the heartattack festival where they played in late august. They said on stage that there were industry people in the crowd who had flew to sweden to see the show. TOO BAD THEY BOMBED, terrible set, easily the worst i've ever seen them play, it was all stiff rock and every single song, new or old were played in the home from home stiff rock-sound. I really like millencolin, and lozin' must is my favorite song by them, but for the first time ever, i walked out on a band i came to see, and to make it even worse, during my favorite song. I spoke to 2 A&R representative from two different labels, one of them were really dissapointed and saw the trip as a fiasco, and actually said "well, atleast i can go pick up some swedish hotties so this trip will be worthwhile". The other one i spoke to told me that there w

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ringston (December 1, 2004)

so they played a bad show. thats no reason to break up. i think its cool that they are back with burning heart, whatever the circumstances.

Someone (December 1, 2004)

What? No, they showed how awful of a band they've become and how they just should break up. Way to miss the point.

ringston (December 1, 2004)

What? they should break up because you didnt like the show, and you heard from someone who heard from someone that there was a record company executive who left the show early? You think they are awful and should break up? i dont agree.

Someone (December 1, 2004)

Bands should break up when they: a) can't perform good enough to satisfy their fans anymore b) makes cd's that no one likes, not even the band themselves. c) try to get on a major label (after a long career on independent labels) but fail. Some bands do it just cause they know that they should, look at face to face, how awesome wasn't that?

Someone (December 1, 2004)

i had waited since like 7th or 8th grade to see them, and finally saw them last year. it was pretty bad, nikola seemed like he really didn't want to be there, and there was very little energy. everything after For Monkeys has been a downward spiral anyway.

Someone (December 1, 2004)

I saw them that year too, and even though it was not as good as it was earlier, it was a 65/10 compared to the 60 year old dudes who played in august.

Someone (December 2, 2004)

i went to 3 of face to face's final shows in september, and i already miss those guys. but i probably wouldn't miss millencolin if they did the same...

Someone (December 1, 2004)

Millencolin on drive thru?! They definetly arent drive thru material......to be on drive thru u gotta have the hair, the looks and that obnoxious sound. Millencolin are old and unattractive

Someone (December 1, 2004)

they almost signed 2-3 years ago, i thought that was common knowledge. But now not even drive thru wants them anymore.

Someone (December 1, 2004)

I'd rather listen to millencolin than any band that has ever been on drive-thru records. -notfeelingcreative

-Strewtho- (December 1, 2004)

Here here. -Strewtho.

Someone (December 2, 2004)

appart from Rx Bandits. Obviously -axx

Someone (December 2, 2004)

I saw them at Groez Rock 2004, headlining act. Man, being a huge fan myself too, I was so disapointed.. thinking of the way the play Bullion in Sydney in the Hi-8 adventures made it even worse. They just plain sucked on stage. Slow music, fellt like their were clocking in at work and had to grind through their set like you grind through an annoying day's work.. They did play some oldish stuff, but it feels like it was still the same stuff (Knowledge, Mr Clean, Olympic etc.). But on the contrary to you, I don't want to see them quit. Not before this album and the tour that will follow. I want to see if the step back into the punk rock direction has really remotivated them, or if they are know torn half way between making rock music that their fans don't really like, or forcing themselves to make punk rock stuff which maybe don't really enjoy anymmore. I wonder.. and I h

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Someone (December 6, 2004)

Headhoncho has to give you the real story... Mr Swedish Somebody (or was it Mr Nobody...) who claims A&R people were at the Millencolin show in Stockholm,and walked away disappointed must have been doing some 'I hate this band for some reason and wanna spread shit' drugs. No fucking A&R people were at the show. Only people from Burning Heart, the bands distributor and their lawyer was there.... And the story about Drive Thru trying to buy the band out is ridicolous too. That has never happened... Also funny to see someone write that the records on Epitaph were good and the ones on Burning Herat bad when all the records has been released on Burning Heart (..though licensed to Epitaph for Northamerica). /Dee Strummer

Someone (December 1, 2004)

i lost my virginity to "polar bears and penguins"...or whatever the fuck it's called.

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BeaArthur (December 1, 2004)

You couldn't technically lose it to both. Did you come in the penguin or the polar bear?

Someone (December 1, 2004)

INSERTION is what counts. it has nothing to do with coming.

Someone (December 1, 2004)

That's fucking great. -notfeelingcreative

Someone (December 1, 2004)

great, great band

Someone (December 1, 2004)

I heard their new album is going to sound like The Used. You gotta stay up on the times man!

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AlkalineSolo (December 2, 2004)

If this is true, then I finally concur with the people saying they should call it quits

Someone (December 6, 2004)

another joker on here. No way near sounding like the USED.

Someone (December 2, 2004)

Millencolin is the most honest and down to earth and going.

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