Here are the most famous Swedish punkers. Some will say that it's not punk rock, it's rather a kind of pop punk nanananana....we don't care. They mix hardcore, punk, ska and the outcome is called softcore according to Millencolin. They got signed on Burning Heart Records. This great label (recently bought by Epitaph) owns other bands in various styles : No Fun At All (great melodic hardcore-punk band), Satanic Surfers (fast, chaotic, melodic), Homegrown (i think they're somewhere else now, they're californian. Catchy ska-pop-punk), 59 Times-the-pain (fast hardcore), Liberator (danceable ska), Chickenpox (danceable ska), The Hives (rock'n'roll punk), Refused (hardcore, i never listened to them, they split up), there are many other hardcore, punk, oï, street punk or ska bands (Randy, Ducksoup, Voice Of A Generation, The Business, Nine, ...) on this big label (parallel to Side Kicks Records), check them out quickly.
I can also talk about other swedish punk bands like and Pridebowl but I don't know them very well. What I've heard was great, so you can go ahead ! Scandinavia is also manned by many ska bands. I'm not a big connoisseur of ska but I think they're as good as jamaïcan, latino or american ones. Skandinavian dance craze !!!
Millencolin is one of the first punk bands I've listenedd (let's kick out Green Day and Offspring). They are skaters and they met in a skatepark in Örebro. They decided to play punk rock together because it was what they were listening to. They made two demo-tapes (Goofy and Melack) and in 1993, Burning Heart was born. They released their fisrt EP, Use Your Nose. Following year, Skauch, another EP, came out. Millencolin in now one of the favourite skaters bands. Skatecore is a lousy trendy word, I don't really like it but if you want to label Millencolin's music that way, you can. They call it softcore. Actually Sweden knows a huge improvment in punkrock, streetpunk, hardcore, ska and oï. Bad Taste Records, Side Kicks Records, Burning Heart, etc are proof of it. Millencolin is getting part of the swedish wealthes. You might hate them, they're are still gonna be one of the best band of the decade.

Nikola plays bass and sings, Mathias plays guitar. He also produces and engineers hardcore and streetpunk bands in his own studio, Erik plays guitar, and Larzon plays drums. Some of them (Mathias and Erik above all) are great skaters.

1. Use Your Nose- 1993 - 6 songs
2. Skauch - 1994 - 6 songs
3. Same Old Tunes* - 1994 - 12 songs (first album)
4. Life On A Plate - 1995 - 14 songs (second album)
5. Da Strike - 1995 - ? songs (single + Entrance at Rudebrook + unreleased songs)
6. For Monkeys - 1997 - 12 songs (last album)
7. Lozin Must - 1998 - 3 songs (single + 2 unreleased songs)
8. Melancholy Collection - 1999 - EP's, singles, rare songs on one record !
9. Hi-8 adventures - 1999 - it contains all their videos, live stuffs, skateboarding, interviews, etc... (rare !!! go buying now !!!)

* : previously released as Tiny Tunes. The name and the cover was changed because Warner Bros didn't like.

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