Million Dead - A Song To Ruin & Harmony No Harmony

To call Million Dead simply a hardcore band wouldn't really do them justice. Founded in 2001, the Anglo-Australian band took the blueprint of Refused's 1999 manifesto "The Shape of Punk To Come" (even taking their name from a line in "The Apollo Programme Was a Hoax") and expanded on it. Fusing vocalist Frank Turner's wry and thoroughly British socio-political commentary with the band's post-hardcore bite, they created two very fine albums. From short punk thrashes like "Pornography for Cowards" & "Bovine Spungiform Economics" to sprawling epics like "Carthego Est Delenda" & "The Rise and Fall" the band didn't really miss a step. Turner's vocals and Tom Fowler's guitar kept the songs melodic on top of the rhythm section of Julia Ruzicka's thumping basslines and Ben Dawson's energetic drumming.

The band split amicably in 2005, only a few months after Harmony No Harmony was released. All of the band members have since been in musical projects of some kind, most notably Turner who turned his hand to punk-tinged folk (he had been playing solo for a time before the break up). More on him later!




A Song To Ruin


Harmony No Harmony