11.06.2009
Back home again, this time for a pretty long time - we'll start putting the next album together now! It will be out in early 2010 and we'll be back on tour after that..

The tour last month was mostly great but we're still bummed about missing the Prag show because of the van breaking down AGAIN.. damn! Well, next time! We'll book a day off before Prag so can will have time to solve all the problems we always seem to have when going there..

This is it for now - we'll post news about the next album and stuff over the upcoming months, stay tuned!

30.04.2009
Back home / back in the van! The Australia/NZ tour was a blast, just got back home two days ago and today & tomorrow we are playing surprise shows with THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY in Turku & Helsinki! Hope to see you there!

05.04.2009
We're off to Australia now, wish us luck!!! Been to lazy with tour diaries and stuff lately but we promise to do one about this one!!

17.03.2009
We will play with the BOUNCING SOULS in Helsinki on June 24th - what can i say, they are one of my favorite melodic punk bands ever so can't complain.. see you there! And while waiting, do yourself a favor and check out the Souls' "Do You Remember" DVD - it's one of the best music documents ever!

04.03.2009
We will be touring Germany & around again in May/June - the dates are online now!

03.02.2009
We have posted the song "Lost Chapter" on our MySpace profile - go check it out! It's the flipside of the Black Wave 7", released only in Finland.

Finally an all ages show in Helsinki! We will play at the COMBAT ROCK WINTER FEST at Nosturi on Saturday March 14th with Abduktio, St.Hood and The Phoenix Foundation.

30.01.2009
Yes! The Australia/New Zealand tour dates are finally online - now it's just waiting, waiting and more waiting until April.. well not really. We plan to keep busy writing new songs so we can play them on tour!

13.01.2009
Thanks to everybody who showed up at the Helsinki show last friday, it was a great way to kick off the new year! It looks like there's all kinds of good stuff in store for 2009.. we have already started practicing songs for the next album, we just got most of the Australia/New Zealand tour dates (will post them when everything's confirmed!), and we are also booking a european tour for late May / early June.. just wanted to drop a line and tell you what's up, more about everything soon!

18.11.2008
We're back from the Disco Ensemble tour.. it was even better than we expected - thanks to DE for having us there and everybody who showed up!

We have new shirts and hoodies available, check out the merch page for those.

We have only 2 more shows this year, then we will have to take a slight break because Ville needs to have a shoulder surgery and generally too it's good to chill out and make new plans, we've pretty much been on tour for the last 6 months, and the 6 months before that we were writing, practicing and recording Black Wave Rising!

We will be back on stage in Finland in March and in April it looks like one of our dreams will finally come true.. we will be touring Australia and New Zealand! But more news about that soon..

29.10.2008
Our second album "Desolation Street" is finally back in print on vinyl again! Get your copy on transparent red wax directly from us, Combat Rock Industry or Rookie Records!

22.9.2008
We're back from tour - it was our best German tour so far, thanks Dolf & local promoters for making it happen & everybody show showed up of course! See you again in May 2009!

Sad news too.. our dear friend and a great soundman Henry Walden died last weekend in an accident at home.. we had asked him to go on tour with us but he already had other commitments in Finland and now that we got back, the first things we hear is this.. devastating. RIP!

16.9.2008
Greetings from Germany! The tour has been great so far, still a couple of days to go, thanks to everyone involved!

Our next shows in Finland will be with DISCO ENSEMBLE, the dates are online now!

3.9.2008
We're going on tour soon, hope to see you somewhere along the way!

Our Finnish tour last week with the mighty WHITE BARONS was a blast, thanks again to everybody for showing up and of course WB for dragging their asses all the way up here!

A big apology to the organizers and everybody who was at our show in Hämeenlinna last Saturday - Ville had been playing shows all week while being ill and then the worst happened, he lost his voice completely on stage for the first time ever in 15 years of doing this, and got totally frustrated..

12.8.2008
We're playing three shows next weekend, all of them pretty early ones at festivals - hope to see you there! Tampere and Helsinki are free by the way!

15.7.2008
Last weekend we played the first shows with Jussi back on drums, whoa.. the first one was at a private party totally in the middle of nowhere in the woods, in a barn with a free booze buffet for the guests.. you get the picture! It was a wild start to say the least.. next weekend we are playing at two punk/indie festivals, on Friday at TUNTUMA in Lohja and on Satuday at the LAPPEENRANTA HARDCORE FEST.

The September tour dates are online now, check them out!

We have a bunch of new shirts available, check them out at the merch page!

2.6.2008
Just got back home from the tour this morning, after driving 1600+ kilometres to Stockholm from the last show in Cologne and taking a 15-hour ferry after that - fun fun fun.. but well, the tour was fun!!! Thanks to everybody who helped us out, showed up and so on, we will be back in Germany in September!

In other positive news, Jussi is recovering from his surgery and will be fine soon - Maukka did an amazing job filling in for him on the tour an will also play with us next weekend in Lieksa.

14.5.2008
We are leaving for the first European tour after the release of "Black Wave Rising" next week. Maukka of THE HEARTBURNS will be filling in on drums because our drummer Jussi is at the moment suffering from serious health problems, needs to have a surgery and can't do anything for a while now.. he should be OK in a couple of weeks though!

5.5.2008
Back from Lapland.. half dead/half alive! Once again the shows were amazing in both Oulu and Rovaniemi, and especially Ruka at the Wappulounas party - this is where we also played our very first show 5 years ago and we shared the stage with the Laybacks and Anal Thunder - the same bands then and now, pretty cool!!

So now we are done with the Finnish release tour, next up is Germany and after that summer festivals in Finland..

28.4.2008
The German release show was great!! Thanks for showing up, there was so much energy.. thanks also for Downstairs & Damn Seagulls for driving our equipment to Berlin so that we could just fly over and be tourists.. and of course huge thanks to Lapko for driving the equipment back!

The Berlin summer was great, next it's time for a change of climate - this week we are heading all the way up to the Arctic Circle! First Oulu, then Rovaniemi and then the legendary Wappulounas snowboarding party, where we played our very first show 5 years ago!!

22.4.2008
Time for thanks again, after a 15-hour drive back home from Russia.. the show was worth it though! Eastern Finland with Relentless and really good too, so can't complain - and in two days we're off to Berlin!

"Black Wave Rising" will be released in mainland Europe this week, on Friday 25th! In the UK/Japan/Australia it will be out on Monday 28th.

14.4.2008
Thanks again for yet another great weekend, people! All the shows were great, especially Jyväskylä was one of our best ever.. this week we are playing in Turku, Joensuu, Kuopio and finally Petrozavodzk, Russia, where Black Wave Rising is out now on OSK Records!

Black Wave Rising entered the national charts in Finland at #20 the week it was released – and this was a really hard week with lots of big new releases, the only ”alternative” bands ahead of us were In Flames and REM, the others are really big finnish mainsteam bands/artists..

We have a new hoodie design available, check it out at the merch section if you need new stuff to wear.. come on, it's springtime, you know you need it! And we know that we need to take our van to the repair shop once again, eh..

If you understand finnish you can check out Jani & Ville's video interview at Stalkermusic.com right HERE ->

7.4.2008
Thanks to everyone who showed up for our release party, it was a good start! Also the next night at the snowboard party was wild, was great to play on the floor in a small corner for change.. this week we are playing in Tampere, Seinäjoki and Jyväskylä.

The gig in Lapeenranta on April 17th has been canceled cos the venue was shut down and there's no time to find a new one.

4.4.2008
Welcome to the I WALK THE LINE Black Wave Rising! release show at Tavastia tonight! And one thing.. even though the newpapers today might say the tickets are 27 euros, they still are 8 euros (advance) and 10 euros (door) - so don't worry we haven't sold out that bad just yet! ;)

2.4.2008
Welcome to our new homepage! The graphics are by Antti/IWTL, layout by Anger - thanks once again!

Black Wave Rising! is out now in Finland. Pick up your copy from any decent store - but if you want limited white vinyl, you'll only get it from Combat Rock Shop!

We will do a short tour of Germany in May, the dates are online now. We will be back in mainland Europe in September, if you want to see us rock your town please tell it to Dolf/Trust OK!

26.3.2008
The "Black Wave" music video is finally ready!! You can download it right HERE ->

"Black Wave Rising" is the featured album of the week in the Finnish MySpace so you can stream the full album from now on until April 2nd!

18.3.2008
The Black Wave 7"/CDS is now available as well as two new shirt designs! Check them out in the merch section!

14.3.2008
Our friends from San Francisco, THE WHITE BARONS will come over to Finland in the end of August - we are playing 3 shows together!

We are playing at the afterparty of the Finnish snowboarding championships on April 5th.




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