Separation

Springtime 1996 was the rebirth of the Umeå punkrock trio Separation. Up until then the band had existed more as a project by the side of Abhinanda since they used to share two members, Jonas - drums and José - vocals. Well, luck (?) had it that Jonas quit Abhinanda to concentrate on Separation and José quit Separation to continue only with Abhinanda and the Desperate Fight label. The other members were and still are Lars (guitars and vocals), and Axel (bassguitar). During 1996 their first CD release, the MCD "5th Song", came out and they did a tour with Gislaved's End In Sight during august. Really tired of the old songs they started to work on new ones under the following months. In December they recorded a song for the "Straight Edge As Fuck compilation vol. 3" that gave the listeners a taste of what was going on. A split seven-inch/mcd with swedish band Serene was released on the Belgian label Genet records, and later on the band finished their first fullength release, during a hectic period of combined touring and recording. The self-titled fullength debut came out in june of 1997, and it received positive reviews in both europe and in the US. Separation have toured parts of europe twice and done three smaller tours in Sweden. The last one should have been a combined Sweden/Europe tour with the US act Kill Holiday, but things had it that they had to cancel the european dates due to theft of instruments and merchandise. To prove that they were not to be defeated by such occurrences, the band started planning new musical odyssees as soon as they got home. In April we left for a two-and-a-half-weeks-tour with label mates Plastic Pride, mostly Germany, but also shows in Denmark, the Chech Rep. and Austria. The tour was awesome, much thanks to everyone, no names - none forgotten, that put up the shows and housed and fed us. Humongus hugs to Marco and Ivonne for putting together all these shows. In May we recorded the songs that will appear on what still is called the Phyte 10 inch and that's were we are at the moment. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.