No Use for a Name (often abbreviated NUFAN) is a punk rock band from San Jose, California. They were formed in 1987 by Tony Sly and Rory Koff. The band is highly praised in the skate punk and hardcore scenes, though their sound has evolved considerably through the years, taking on a much lighter and poppier brand of melodic punk. NUFAN's debut album, Incognito, was released in 1990 through New Red Archives.
A four Piece melodic hardcore band from Perth, Scotland. After 8 years together, playing countless shows and recording several self-financed cds, PMX have developed into one of Scotland’s top melodic punk bands. Having played alongside world renowned bands such as Alexisonfire, Anti-Flag, OPM, Taking Back Sunday and Propagandhi to name a few, the band released their debut album 'Rise and Shine' on 3 independent labels - bells on records (Japan, Europe) Milk And Cookies (Canada) and Allstar-Recordings (U.
In 2005, when the melodic punk-scene in Sweden was almost completely dead, they appeared.
Atlas Losing Grip rose from the ashes and their debut-album "Shut the World Out" took them touring around Europe. Satanic Surfers lead singer and frontman Rodrigo Alfaro, who had appeared as a guest vocalist on the debut-album, was recruited in 2008.
Things fell into place and the group was completed.
As a five-piece they recorded the MCD îWatching the Horizonî. The result? Five brilliant tracks. And for the first time in a years, Swedish punk rock felt alive and real.
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There are more than one artist with this name. 1) Standstill is a Spanish indie rock band from Barcelona. Their first two albums were hardcore, sung in English and reached some popularity in European hardcore scene. After those two records, they released an acoustic EP, and since then, they've been singing in Spanish (the last two albums). Their style has changed radically as well, and they play alternative rock now instead of hardcore. website
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Friends With The Enemy are a fast melodic punk band from the Gold Coast, Australia. Formed in Oct 2009, FWTE released their debut EP 'New World DisOrder' in Sept 2010, followed by a tour in America, with shows supporting Guttermouth and Versus The World. Also supporting Guttermouth in their recent tour of Australia. In February 2011 Friends With The Enemy won Triple J’s Unearthed competition to play Soundwave Festival, sharing the stage with Iron Maiden, Pennywise, Social Distortion, Millencolin, New Found Glory, Sum 41, and many more..
From Plan to Progress are a four piece fast melodic hardcore band playing music in the vain of Strike Anywhere and Rise Against. We recorded with Peter Miles for the 6 track EP, titled 'Bombs, Towns and Chords' which was released September 2005. Two tracks off the E.P are available for download on our myspace page
www.myspace.com/fromplantoprogress
Awaken is a heavy metal band from Greenwich, CT formed in 2009 by vocalist Glenn DaGrossa. He was formerly the songwriter and founding member of the power metal band Lazarus, which Kerrang! magazine hailed as "one of the quintessential metal bands of our time." Thanks to DaGrossa's soaring vocals and stellar song craftsmanship, Lazarus was also voted one of 2007's best unsigned bands by the staff at Germany's Heavy magazine and metalexpressradio.com said their 2007 debut, Episode One, "could have easily been sandwiched between Queensrÿche's The Warning and Saxon's Innocence Is No Excuse.
High Five Drive finished off 2009 with the Japanese release of “Fullblast”, their latest record. Days later it’s 2010 and HFD is on an eight show tour in the USA. After a few months at home working on new material, the band tours several European countries in April with Canadian dates in late March. The band isn’t rich, and has only a small network of allies. Yet, they have kept a firm standing in the insanity of egos, opinions, and ostracism also know as the music industry. Alone they stare into the Icy Dawn.
From The Tracks from Karlstad, Sweden formed in September 2008, made up of ex-members of Ends like this, New Hope For Breakfast and Sicktrick. Their début album, THIS MACHINE AND I was released in early 2009 as a free download, their second album Recover was released in September 2009 after their first European tour. http://www.myspace.com/fromthetracks
Formed in 1992 in northern Ontario Canada , Slush has been playing melodic punk rock for 11 years and now live in western Canada in the ski resort town of Whistler, British Columbia. They have record 7 albums as well as a compilation album and the 8th album was recorded in 2005.