Uncurbed - "The Strike Of Mankind" CD 1993 (320)



"Uncurbed was formed in 1990 with only 3 members: Conny Enstrom (guitar) Micke Gunnarsson (bass) Johan Jansson (drums). The influence then came from bands like Napalm Death. Some gigs were made in the neighborhood with various singers. A compilation demo was released with 4 songs in total grind style. After a while the style changed more and more to bands like E.N.T, because most of the members like that kind of music. After a while we picked up Henrik Lindberg and Jens Tornroos on the lyrics and Nico Knudsen on guitar. A demo was recorded at 'Unisound' and was sent to many record labels. After some detours the demo landed at 'Lost & Found' in Germany, and they were interested in a CD release. 5 new songs was recorded to fill up the CD. The name was 'The Strike Of Mankind'. In the meantime a tour in Germany with Disfear was under construction, and L & F released a crap EP with Uncurbed & Disfear (according to L & F it was a limited edition in 500 copies, shit! You can find it in every record store today!). Anyway, the tour in Germany was a success and we got a lot of fans (we hope!).

Michael and Johan also played in a band called 'Asocial', when they quit the singer Tommy joined Uncurbed instead of Henrik. The L & F was interested in a second CD so we recorded a 9 song Maxi-CD with the name 'Mental Disorder'. After some shit talk with the L & F we left them for 'Finn Records' where we released a new CD with 14 brutal songs under the name 'A Nightmare In Daylight'. Some gigs were made in Sweden with The Varukers, Chaos UK, English Dogs, and Hypocrisy. A gig at 'Dalarocken' also took place in 1995, about 300 people showed up and it was fun as hell! In January '96 we changed studio from 'Unisound' to 'Abyss' (the owner Peter Tagtgren from Hypocrisy.) The CD 'Punk & Anger' was then recorded with 16 songs and included one cover of Asocial. A split EP was also recorded with S.G.R/Uncurbed 4 songs each, and released on 'Yellow Dog' records in Germany. 1000 copies sold in a couple of months. In April '97 it was time again for us to go in the studio and recording the grooviest and best release we ever made (don't we always think that way!). The title is 'Peace Love Punk Life' and should be out in early '98."