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Step Forward
Step Forward was a Swedish hardcore punk band founded in 1989 in Umeå, Sweden by Dennis Lyxzén and his friends, Toft Stade, Jens Nordén and Henrik Jansson. Step Forward was one of the first hardcore punk bands in Sweden that held on to the American straight edge lifestyle. They soon released their first demo "I Am Me" and in October 1990, their second demo, "Does It Make a Difference". During their existence they played a handful of gigs, mostly in the north of Sweden where they are from. Differences of opinion on the kind of songs they wanted to play finally reached a point of no return and Step Forward was dissolved. They played their last gig in December 1991. In 1996, a Step Forward CD entitled ''It Did Make a Difference'' was released on the hardcore label Desperate Fight Records. It included the demo-recordings mentioned above as well as two of their live-sets. Although the band no longer exists, Dennis Lyxzén created a new band, Refused, in 1992, which has revolu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umeå
Umeå ( , , , locally ; ; ; ; ) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County. Situated on the Ume River, Umeå is the largest Urban areas in Sweden, locality in Norrland and the thirteenth largest in Sweden, with a wider municipal population of 132,235 inhabitants in the beginning of 2023. When Umeå University was established in 1965, growth accelerated, and the amount of housing has doubled in 30 years from 1980 to 2010. , Umeå was gaining around 1,000 inhabitants per year and the municipality plans for having 200,000 inhabitants by 2050. The projection of municipality size in 2050 has, however, been questioned as an overestimation in an independent study. Umeå is a college town, university town and centre of education, technical and medical research in northern Sweden. The two universities located in the city, Umeå University and one of the 3 main branches of Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcore Punk
Hardcore punk (commonly abbreviated to hardcore or hXc) is a punk rock music genre#subtypes, subgenre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock. Its roots can be traced to earlier punk scenes in San Francisco and Punk rock in California, Southern California which arose as a reaction against the still predominant History of the hippie movement, hippie cultural climate of the time. It was also inspired by Washington, D.C., hardcore#History, Washington, D.C., and Punk rock#New York City, New York punk rock and early proto-punk. Hardcore punk generally eschews commercialism, the established music industry and "anything similar to the characteristics of Rock music, mainstream rock" and often addresses social and political topics with "confrontational, politically charged lyrics". Hardcore sprouted underground scenes across the United States in the early 1980s, particularly in Los Angeles, San Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desperate Fight Records
Desperate Fight Records was an independent record label in existence between 1993 and 2000 in Umeå, Sweden, owned and operated by Dennis Lyxzén and Jose Saxlund. It released records by most of the bands in the huge local Straight edge hardcore scene, known collectively as Umeå Hardcore. Label discography DFR#1: Abhinanda - ''Darkness of Ignorance'' DFR#2: Various artists - ''Straight Edge as Fuck I'' DFR#3: Doughnuts - ''Equalize Nature'' DFR#4: Abhinanda - ''Senseless'' DFR#5: Shield - ''Build Me Up... Melt Me Down...'' DFR#6: Final Exit - ''Teg'' DFR#7: Purusam - ''Outbound'' DFR#8: Abhinanda - ''Neverending Well of Bliss'' DFR#9: Various artists - ''Straight Edge as Fuck II'' DFR#10: Shield - ''Vampiresongs'' DFR#11: Separation - ''5th Song'' DFR#12: Saidiwas - ''Saidiwas'' DFR#13: Purusam - ''The Way of the Dying Race'' DFR#14: Step Forward Step Forward was a Swedish hardcore punk band founded in 1989 in Umeå, Sweden by Dennis Lyxzén and his friends, To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Final Exit (band)
Final Exit was a Swedish straight edge hardcore punk, hardcore band from Umeå, formed in 1994. It was a side project made up by members of Refused and Abhinanda and was active from 1994 to 1997. History Final Exit formed in 1994 by Dennis Lyxzén (D-Rp), David Sandström (Dave Exit), Pär Hansson (SXE Guile) and Kristoffer Steen (Kid Stone). Unlike most of the band in Umeå at the time Final Exit played a more old-school hardcore influenced by band such as Sick of it All, Youth of Today and Agnostic Front instead of the more metal influenced hardcore sound of the nineties. Final Exit quickly gained a reputation as the members of the band worked on creating a myth about themselves and the Umeå hardcore scene with acts such as naming their first album "Teg" which portrayed the upperclass suburb of Teg as a rough ghetto. The members famous from their other bands took on fake aliases that they used on their records and in interviews where they often bad mouthed their real bands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Refused
Refused (also known as the Refused) is a Swedish hardcore punk band originating from Umeå and formed in 1991. Refused is composed of vocalist Dennis Lyxzén, guitarist Kristofer Steen, drummer David Sandström, and bassist Magnus Flagge. Guitarist Jon Brännström was a member from 1994, through reunions, until he was fired in late-2014. Their lyrics are often of a non-conformist and politically Far-left politics, far-left nature and were for a time associated with the Straight edge, straight edge subculture. The band released their debut album ''This Just Might Be... the Truth'' in 1994. They followed this up with ''Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent'' (1996) and five EPs. In 1998, the band released ''The Shape of Punk to Come'', which expanded their sound with jazz and Electronic music, electronic influences, but was initially poorly received commercially and critically. The group shortly after disbanded during their subsequent tour. Despite limited contemporary success, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Lyxzén
Sven Olov Dennis Lyxzén (born June 19, 1972) is a Swedish singer, best known as the lead vocalist for the influential hardcore punk band Refused, as well as the bands INVSN and Fake Names. He is also a former member of bands including AC4, Step Forward, Final Exit, and The (International) Noise Conspiracy, and co-founded the record labels Ny Våg and Desperate Fight Records. Career Refused Following a stint in the short-lived hardcore band Step Forward, Lyxzén formed Refused in 1991 with drummer David Sandström, guitarist Pär Hansson, and bassist Jonas Lindgren. They released three studio albums, '' This Just Might Be... the Truth'' (1994), ''Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent'' (1996), and ''The Shape of Punk to Come'' (1998), the latter of which was heavily influential on later bands but a commercial and critical failure upon release, and the group disbanded that same year. In March 2010, there were rumours that Refused would be reuniting after a 12 years hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcore Punk
Hardcore punk (commonly abbreviated to hardcore or hXc) is a punk rock music genre#subtypes, subgenre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock. Its roots can be traced to earlier punk scenes in San Francisco and Punk rock in California, Southern California which arose as a reaction against the still predominant History of the hippie movement, hippie cultural climate of the time. It was also inspired by Washington, D.C., hardcore#History, Washington, D.C., and Punk rock#New York City, New York punk rock and early proto-punk. Hardcore punk generally eschews commercialism, the established music industry and "anything similar to the characteristics of Rock music, mainstream rock" and often addresses social and political topics with "confrontational, politically charged lyrics". Hardcore sprouted underground scenes across the United States in the early 1980s, particularly in Los Angeles, San Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight Edge
Straight edge (sometimes abbreviated as sXe or signified by XXX or simply X) is a subculture of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco, and other recreational drugs in reaction to the punk subculture's excesses. Some adherents refrain from engaging in promiscuous or casual sex, follow a vegetarian or vegan diet and do not consume caffeine or prescription drugs. The term "straight edge" was adopted from the 1981 song " Straight Edge" by the hardcore punk band Minor Threat. The straight-edge subculture emerged amid the early-1980s hardcore punk scene. Since then, a wide variety of various beliefs and ideas have been associated with the movement, including vegetarianism and animal rights. While the commonly expressed aspects of the straight edge subculture have been abstinence from alcohol, nicotine, and illegal drugs, there have been considerable variations. Disagreements often arise as to the primary reasons for living straight edge. Straight edge poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Backman
Karl Backman, (born 27 October 1970, Umeå) is a Swedes, Swedish artist and musician. Music Backman became involved in Punk rock in 1980 and started his first punk band the Boredom Brothers in 1982 when he was squatting in Umeå. He formed the punk band The Vectors in 1990, with whom he was the lead guitarist and part vocalist throughout their career. The Vectors split up in 2008. Backman was also the lead guitarist and the main songwriter in AC4 (band), AC4, a hardcore punk band he started in 2008 with ex-Refused members Dennis Lyxzén and David Sandström. Sometime in the late summer of 2013 Backman formed a band called The T-55's, as AC4 was on a break, and in late 2016 he started his current band Acid Blood. He is interviewed about his views on artistic expression in the Australian documentary film ''A few minutes with AC4''. Art Backman's paintings are often colourful and large in scale, covering political, religious and sexual themes and is inspired by the Punk vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AC4 (band)
AC4 was a Swedish hardcore punk band from Umeå. Refused members Dennis Lyxzén and David Sandström had been talking about starting a new band for a long time. In the spring of 2008 Karl Backman had written songs for the new band and they started to rehearse. Jens Nordén had played with Lyxzén in pre-Refused straight edge hardcore band Step Forward (1987–1991) and since 1990 with Backman in punk band The Vectors. The "AC" in the name is the regional code for the Västerbotten province where Umeå is located. The first show was at a squat on Parkgatan in Umeå on 5 May 2008. In May 2008 someone posted a live song on YouTube. It got on Kerrang's playlist and had over 14,000 hits the first week. They performed at Storsjöyran and Umeå Punkfest in 2008. In 2009 they performed at Way Out West Festival and released the self-titled debut album on Lyxzén's label Ny Våg. In 2010 their European tour took them around their native Sweden, as well as Norway, Denmark, Germany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facebook
Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities. Since 2006, Facebook allows everyone to register from 13 years old, except in the case of a handful of nations, where the age requirement is 14 years. , Facebook claimed almost 3.07 billion monthly active users worldwide. , Facebook ranked as the List of most-visited websites, third-most-visited website in the world, with 23% of its traffic coming from the United States. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s. Facebook can be accessed from devices with Internet connectivit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Did Make A Difference
''It Did Make a Difference'' is an album by one of Sweden's first hardcore punk band, Step Forward. It is the complete discography of the band, released on CD. Being one of the few hardcore punk bands of Sweden back in 1989, their fast and energetic tunes were the starting point of Sweden's hardcore scene. Members of this band went to form bands like Refused and others. Track listing ''Does It Make A Difference'' Recordings (1990) #Away #For myself #Think ahead #Nothing to say #My love #Deal with it #3 mil till Vännäs #Does it make a difference #The dream #Killing for profit #Filler (Minor Threat cover) ''I Am Me'' Recordings (1989) #Change today #Stop the madness #A point of view #I am me #False people #Face the reality #Tomorrows world #4 u #Steppin stone (The Monkees cover) #It isn't funny at all #Try #I am me #The dream #4 u #We're gonna fight ( 7 Seconds cover) Live Recordings #What do you say Moe? #A point of view #Nothing to say #Feeding the fire #Hide from truth # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
