Millencolin - Machine 15

Burning Heart records . release date: 04/07/2008 [EUR] . written by Oliver

To me Millencolin is still one of the most important bands from Europe. These guys are about 15 in the music business to find now. Their new album title is based on that fact. I clearly renember when Millencolin started out as a kinky Punkrock-Skate-Ska band. Their unforgetable releases Tiny Tunes or Use Your Nose EP got described by critiques as “Snowboarders wet dream come true”. Millencolin started as a fourpiece band around 15 years ago and they kept the constellation since then by. The band members have become great friends and Millencolin has become a kind of family for them. In 2000 Millencolin released Pennybridge Pioneers on Epitaph/Burning Heart. Brett Gurewitz founder member of Bad Religion and owner of Epitaph records made the producer job for them. Pennybridge became the bands biggest sucsess up to date. The record grabbed gold in Australia, because it got sold about 35000 times there. Afterwards Millencolin released “Home from Home” and “Kingwood”. Both albums did not really worked out good in my opinion. I missed the catchyness, that Millencolin was always well known for. The bands newest work - Machine 15 – came out on May 6th and I can finally state that Millencolin has released an enduring powerful release again with plenty of gigantic melodies on. The opener track is also called “Machine15” – a song about the bands history. I totally like the refrain: “Drop the gun, that is stuck to my head … the machine is turning 15”. Nicola´s mature voice keeps singing that great refrain, that infects you directly from the first second on. On “Machine15” the band has realisezed all their creativeness on just one release. And so you find slamming Rock tracks, turbulent drums, astonishing melodies and killer refrains and also a lot of triffles, alike Violin in the back on “Done is Done” or “Saved By Hell”. The most outstandig track in my opinion is called “Vicious Circle” – a killer tune, that starts pretty soft with pleasant guitar and soft vocals. But then the drums set in and suddenly the tune becomes more powerful. The chorus on that song is just mindblowing. To me the tune sounds like an outtake from the Pennybridge album. The next outstanding song is called “Saved by hell” – a tune with a real orchestra in the back. To me Millencolin is still one of the most influencial band from the alternative genre up to date. Nicola is an amazing singer with a stunning voice. Matthias, who has also found a sideproject, called “Franky Lee” is a great guitarplayer and songwriter. Larzon, who plays drums for a swedish hardcore band and Eric, who runs a skatehall and who is also a designer is also a very great guitar player. The band is a perfect match, that has great ideas and who write really fresh and vital tunes. Machine 15 turned out to be a firework of unbelieveable melodies and great spirit.

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Rank: 5 out of 5

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