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Style: Melodic hardcore
Comes from: Vaasa
Members:Petteri Mikkilä (guitar & vocals)
Discography:
Jantsa Kärkkäinen (bass)
Marko Nurmi (drums)
Tero Luoma (guitar)
- Radicals of Today / Results of Our Roles // Oblivion (Toinen Vaihtoehto JUGS1) -90
- Gun in My Heart (EP) (HIKS-025) -91
No Counsellors / Jumping on the Thin Ice / Gun in My Heart / It's Selfish
- Track on German compilation LP Screaming for a Better Future #3 -92
- Split-EP in France with Behind the Smile (Bad Card Records BAD-004) -92
- A Dream EP (HIKS-034) -92
Dream / The Aims of Dictator / The Limit / Untraceable
- Fight for Humanity on US benefit compilation CD Johnny's Cafe -93
- ...for Humanity (early 90's) (HICKS-043) mini-CD -94
War / Not from My World / Independence / Disturbance / Fight for Humanity / Western Disease / Question #1 / My Lonely Day / Selling Privacy
- ...so fucking fed up! (Poland: Trujaca TF-006) MC -95
Popularised Fascism / Fed Up | Living by Wars / Passerby / No Fucking War / Liberation / Master / Not from My World / Big Hands / Hit Facist Harder! | Fools and Fanatics / Natseja Vastaan / Harmless Business? / Muuttolinnut / Positivism / War / Independence / Disturbance / Fight for Humanity / Western Disease / Question #1 / My Lonely Day / Selling Privacy
- ...for Humanity (early 90's) (Belgium; Genet Records) mini-LP -96
War / Not from My World / Independence / Disturbance / Fight for Humanity / Western Disease / Question #1 / My Lonely Day / Selling Privacy
- Positively Fed Up (HICKS-045) mini-CD -96
Positivity / Passerby / Muuttolinnut / Master / Living by Wars / Fed Up / No Fucking War / Liberation / So Clear: Anti-Nuclear! / Hit Facist Harder! / Fools and Fanatics / Natseja Vastaan / Harmless Business?
- New Toys (HICKS-046) mini-CD -97
Consumers / Let’s be Animals / Do a Favour / Burn! Burn! Burn! / Image / Toy Voters / Revenge / Violence in the New World Odrer / Energy / Suolia ja Ulosteita
- Sanjam compilation (France; Sanjam Recordings) CD -97
Dream | The Aims of Dictator | The Limit | Untraceable /// other bands: Divde Andconquer, Lee Majors and Eterna Inocencia
- Split-EP with Enough (Poland; Trujaca Fala) 7" EP -97
Revenge | Toy Voters | Image | Violence in the New World Odrer | Suolia ja Ulosteita
- No More Consumers (Germany; Campary Records C.R.030) 10" -97
Consumers | Let’s be Animals | Do a Favour | Burn! Burn! Burn!
- Split-EP with Anger of Bacterias (Germany; Ruin Nation Records) 7" EP -98
Feed Yourself / Neo Class Devision / Tampere 280198 / Balance / Sheep of the Century / Sottomesso
- Split-MC with Infekcta (Poland; Trujaca Fala) MC -98
Consumers / Let’s be Animals / Do a Favour / Burn! Burn! Burn! / Image / Toy Voters / Revenge / Violence in the New World Odrer / Energy
- Can You Explain? (HICKS-049) mini-CD -98
Pissed off Again | Survival of the Fittest | Fifteen Minutes | Can You Explain? | Shrinking World | Mr. Extreme | Let Me Out- Can You Explain? (Poland; Trujaca Fala TFO-025) 7" EP -98
Survival of the fittest | Fifteen minutes | Can you expalin? || Pissed off again | Mr. Extreme | Let me out
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Does somebody say that anarco-HC is dead? Well, maybe in the old sense, but Juggling Jugulars brings it back with more melodies and... with a feeling. This stuff is more relevant now than ever!
Although Juggling Jugulars was formed as "late" as in 1989 the members had played in various punk/hc bands before that (Sabotaasi and Treblinka are the most important of those). And that's why their first self published single (Radicals of Today) was already "the real thing". In fact it was so good they didn't have to ask for a record deal - the record company asked if they were willing to do more these kind of records.
After a year out came Gun in My Heart EP which was followed by a 13 gig European tour. More contacts were made and soon the band was on a compilation LP in Germany and made a split-EP in France. 1992 came and with it their classic My Dream (is not the United States of Europe ...but it's just a dream about global unity) EP. After touring in Finland there was a little bit slower period up till 1994 when Jugulars made their second one month European tour and recorded ...for Humanity mini-CD, which was released in Belgium as a vinyl mini-LP.
Another year and another one month tour in Europe, many gigs in Finland and in the end of 1995 Jugulars recorded new material which was released in February 1996. This Positively Fed Up brings the band back to it's roots: If ...for Humanity did look for a cross-over between anarco-HC and skatepunk, Positively Fed Up is more straight hardcore punk - in an old way. There is even one old Treblinka song (Muuttolinnut) on the record. Songs are short (14 of them in less than 19 minutes) but hard hitting and the lyrics are sharper than ever!
Interest towards the band in Europe arises. The best example of this is when the next CD (New Toys, 1997) was not even released in Finland yet, it's tracks were already licensed to Germany and Poland. When the previous CD Positively Fed Up was fast and direct HC, now there are also "slower" songs like the melodic and very catchy Burn! Burn! Burn!. Of course also the hardcore side of Juggling Jugulars is present on this record. Was the tempo fast or very fast, the songs are always strong and rough, but at the same time melodic and catchy. Their influences come from from punk, hardcore, crusty and trash. There are also some changes in the lyrics. When on the last record the texts were positively bored, now it’s time to think about the big issues and the lyrics are darker than last time... of course there still is the optimistic undertone in them.
The 1999 band started in the "home-studio", where they recorded 6 songs. This songs made their way to a split-EP with Anger of Bacterias. Juggling Jugulars made their fifth European tour with this band in April. Just before this tour band visited a studio once again, this time with Jani Viitanen as producer. These 7 songs where released as Can You Explain? in Autumn. Band also made one song (Nukke) for Kaaos tribute record. In December Juggling Jugulars where once again in the studio. This time they recorded 5 songs, from which 2 (Domestic Violence and I Refuse!) will go to armyrefusal benefit CD.
Band members have several activities in Antifa movement, Seinäjoki Direct Action and Anarchist Organizations. Jantsa is also the editor of Toinen Vaihtoehto (the best monthly punk/subculture-action news/info-zine in Finland).
Toinen Vaihtoehto
P.O.B. 1
65200 Vaasa
Check also bands own WEB SITE
"I've got Western Disease - I am emotionally dead / ...maybe I should buy a cat"
There's a bunch of reviews of Juggling Jugulars records here, and a complete gig list is also available.Here is also a Juggling Jugulars interview which was taken from Flagburner fanzine.
