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I WALK THE LINE - THE STORY SO FAR..
Hailing from Helsinki, Finland, I Walk The Line took their
name from the legendary Johnny Cash, feeling it described the honest
straightforward nature of the punk rock they played - back in 2003,
the Man In Black was still very much alive and only a cult figure
in the finnish punk rock scene and there was no hit movie made about
him yet! Apart from dressing all in black, there is little else
that nods to the classic country icon. The band plays dark resonant,
melodic, edgy punk, pulling from such influences as Rocket From
The Crypt, The Clash, Devo, Adolescents, Murder City Devils, Wipers,
The Cure.. the list could go on and on but IWTL are all about listening
to everybody and everything with an open mind and doing things their
own way no matter what!
IWTL started as a side-project from the members other bands
at the time, Wasted and Manifesto Jukebox. IWTL quickly established
themselves as a local must-see live act, bringing together fans
of punk, hardcore and rock whenever they played. The band released
their debut album Badlands on Combat Rock Industry / Boss Tuneage
in 2004 and embarked on several tours of Germany and the UK, introducing
the band to a wider international audience.
The second IWTL album Desolation Street was released in Germany
and Finland in 2006 on Combat Rock Industry and was met with enthusiasm
from the crowd and critics alike the album hit the national
charts, IWTL kept playing shows from small sweaty clubs to the biggest
outdoor festivals and rocked them all! The Diamond Eyes single,
released in July 2006, even reached 2 position on the charts.
Later that year the legendary US punk rock label Gearhead picked
up the record after seeing IWTL play at the Popkomm festival in
Berlin. Desolation Street was re-released in January 2007 and IWTL
kept busy touring, going to Japan and the US for the first time
as well as doing yet another tour of mainland Europe. After the
summer IWTL took time off from the relentless touring schedule and
started working on new songs.
On their much anticipated third album Black Wave Rising IWTL delivers
11 anthems with powerful hooks wrapped in a flood of guitars and
keyboards. The album includes the snottiest punk songs the band
has written so far as well as synth-driven new wavey tracks and
everything in between, the key to everything being the bands
raw energy combined with strong melodies and songwriting, as well
as singer/songwriter Villes distinctive voice and heartfelt
lyrics.
Here is what some other people have said about us.
"Dark punk rock n roll, black-clad and tattooed, part Murder
City Devils, part Rocket from the Crypt, part Social Distortion,
with far more intelligence than the greasemonkey / gearhead mentality
that my sketch might otherwise suggest. I Walk the Line would be
huge in the USA if they had the right label behind them." (punknews.org)
"I Walk The Line emerged after members of fellow Finnish bands
(Manifesto Jukebox, Wasted and Hero Dishonest) decided they wanted
to widen their musical horizons. "Desolation Street",
the second chapter in their musical journey sees them traveling
an impressively less-worn road. Intelligent and well-crafted songs
abound, captured in old-fashioned earthy analogue, giving proceedings
a less clinical feel than the norm... Like fellow brave souls Against
Me!, IWTL are another act fearlessly pushing forward the boundaries
of this thing we call punk rock." (punkoi.co.uk)
I WALK THE LINE is:
Ville : vocals & bass
Jussi : drums
Anna : keyboards
Antti : guitar
Jani : guitar
BAND CONTACT:
I WALK THE LINE
c/o Combat Rock Industry
Fredrikinkatu 58
00100 Helsinki
FINLAND
email: IWTL@FIREINSIDEMUSIC.COM
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BOOKING:
Finland:
FULLSTEAM AGENCY
www.fullsteamagency.com
+358-50-5384178 / Otso Kähönen
otso@fullsteamagency.com
Elsewhere:
I WALK THE LINE / Jani
jani@fireinsidemusic.com
+358-50-3551786
RECORD LABELS:
COMBAT ROCK INDUSTRY
info@fireinsidemusic.com
tel/fax : +358 9 440 881
WWW.COMBATROCKINDUSTRY.NET
GEARHEAD RECORDS
michelle@gearheadrecords.com
tel +1 530 662 7877
www.gearheadrecords.com
WEBDESIGN:
WWW.ANGERDESIGN.COM
DISCOGRAPHY (not including compilations
etc)
BLACK WAVE RISING LP/CD (Combat Rock
Industry, april 2008)
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01 Trouble Seeker
02 Stigmatized
03 Black Wave
04 Demonic Verses
05 Paradise
06 The Metro
07 Words Like Knives
08 Way Back Home
09 Fire, Be My Guide
10 Monster
11 Just A Number
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BLACK WAVE 7"/CDS (Combat Rock
Industry, march 2008)
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01 Black Wave
02 Lost Chapter
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DIAMOND EYES 7"/MCD (Combat Rock
Industry, July 2006)
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7":
01 Nowhereland
02 Heart On A Leash
03 Diamond Eyes
CD:
01 When I'm Gone
02 Nowhereland
03 Heart On A Leash
04 Diamond Eyes
+When I'm Gone video
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DESOLATION STREET LP/CD (Combat Rock Industry, January 2006.
Gearhead, January 2007)
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01 Just Like
the Rest
02 The Man Without a Name
03 Grand Collapse
04 Drifter
05 Dead Seeds
06 World on a Pyre
07 When I'm Gone
08 Purity
09 Where Strangers Meet
10 Hollow
11 Forever Nights
12 Ghost 0n A Tightrope
+When I'm Gone video on the Gearhead edition |
BADLANDS LP/CD /PIC-LP
(Combat Rock Industry/Boss Tuneage, February 2004)
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01 In Retrospect
02 Capsized
03 Vagrant's Burden
04 Time to Burn
05 Barren Fields
06 Demons are Forever
07 Bitter End
08 Clean Slate
09 Russian Roulette (only on vinyl)
10 No Redemption
11 Unbroken |
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