The DISKONTO history:

History:

Diskonto was formed by Martin and Malmen back in ’92 or something. Then we were Martin on guitar and vocals and Malmen on drums. Sonn Patrik joined on bass, but his sejour in the band was short, he just didn’t fit in. He now plays with the grunge band Spacebone. After a short break Stefan joined on vocals and Kaj on bass, and we had found the setting that Diskonto were about to keep for some years. The members were involved in some other bands (Times Square Preachers, Biomasticator etc.) wich made Diskonto a not very active band until the beginning of ’94 when those bands had either splitted up or rested. In March ’94 a 16 song promodemo was recorded in studio D-takt (the only time when we have used another studio than ADM). The demo was sent to some labels which resulted in a couple of EP offers. In November ’94 two EP’s were recorded, one for the American label Profane existence records ("A shattered society") and one for the French label Minstrel records ("Silenced by oppression"). It took a while before anything happened ("A shattered..." was released in August ’95) and during that time we recorded once again. That recording in March ’95 became our side at the split-EP with Frigöra from Japan which was released at the of ’95 by Blurred records (Japan) and one side on our fourth EP "More power to the cops.. ..is less power to the people" which was released in March ’96 by Malarie records (Czech). The other side of that EP was recorded in June ’95. At the end of ’95 we were once again in the studio, this time to record songs for an split-EP with all-girl-crust-grind-punk-as-fuck-band Distjej. It will be released by Tribal War Asia as soon as possible. Lorenzo on Minstrel records turned out to be an shithead who was only ripping us, and when "Silenced..." hadn’t yet been released in March ’96 we decided not to have him release it, instead the American label Eugene records will. In March ’96 Diskonto went on a smaller eastern Europe tour in two weeks which went just fine apart from conflict with polish skinheads, finacial suicide etc. After that tour both Kaj and Malmen decided to leave the band. Kaj to join Cumbrage and Malmen to concentrate on Zionide (by the way, Stefan left Zionide before the tour) and all of a sudden we didn’t have any bass player or drummer. New bass player became Danne (also playing in Della Morte) and we entered the studio to record a new EP and a 10" in May ’96. Malmen helped us out playing drums on this recording which became his last with Diskonto. Somehow we thought that the recording would fit better as an full length LP than the mentioned records (strange since we always have said that we never want to do an Diskonto LP, but what the fuck, you can change your mind, can’t you?) and Pete at Reiterate records (US) agreed and will release it in April '97. Jonas definetly joined the band. He previously played with bands as Dismachine etc. Crustrecords took over the Diskonto/Distjej project. A new split 10" was recorded to be shared with Abuse from Uppsala, Sweden. Puh! That was much writing!

Standpoints:

• Diskonto is a political band that wants to bring fourth their anger and aggression against the current system.
• Diskonto supports the struggle against sexism.
• Diskonto thinks that everyone has the right to have whatever sexual preferences that they want, without getting oppressed for it.
• Diskonto despises animal testing and animal torture/breeding/slaughter.
• Diskonto despises capitalism, imperialism and thinks that an armed revolution, and afterwards the building of a society built on consensus instead of conflict is the only solution.
• Diskonto also despises so called "peace-punks" that haven’t understood shit. Violence is, unfortunately, the only solution in long terms. Naturally all actions doesn’t have to be violent, only when that serves the goals. Direct action! Militant resistance! @ is freedom!
• Diskonto do not like pigs, which is the states stormtroopers against the people.
• Diskonto rejects bands that sells out to major labels or distributors. They can suck our dicks and die!
• Diskonto believes in ideas of struggle between classes, and that the working class always, in a capitalist society, must stand against the ruling class. The boss is always your enemy.
• Diskonto despises authority in all it’s forms. Cooperation, not competition!

Members right now:

• Martin, guitar and vocals, born ‘75 and studying subjects within the philosophical/sociological sphere at the Uppsala University. Also plays a bit with Downward spiral and Steffes and mine project band House of Commons. More about me on my page (http://xx.flashback.se/~diskonto).
• Steffe, lead vocals, born ‘72 and a unemployed bum. Also plays with a ‘60-ties rock’n’rollband, The Unkinds & House of Commons.
• Danne, born ’72, plays bass and studying Cinemaology (?) at the Stockholms University. Also plays with Della Morte.
• Jonas plays the drums, studies nutrition science to be a good cook. He also plays with Aparat (drunkest band in Sweden?).

Discography:

• "Silenced by oppression" EP, not yet released. Probably this will be on CLean Plate records instead of Eugene, but I don't really know. I'm actually pretty tired of all the problems with this one...
• "A shattered society" EP, released by Profane existence records in 1995.
• Split-EP with Frigöra, released by Blurred records in 1995.
• "More power to the cops.. ..is less power to the people" EP, released by Malarie records in 1996.

Coming records with Diskonto: Split EP with Distjej, will be released by Crustrecords in 1997. "Destroy! Rebuild!" LP, will be released by Reiterate records in 1997. split 10" with Abuse coming on Consume, be silent, die records in 1997.

Compilations:

• "Distortion to hell again" CD, Distortion records. Five songs. Three otherwise unreleased.
• "Fucking noise terror" CD, Sound Pollution records. Four songs. All previously unreleased.
• "Uppsala Crust Compilation", Your Own Jailer records. One song. Previously released.

Coming compilations:

• Compilation 9" flexi on Brutal Puke records. One song. Previously unreleased.
• Compilation by HG Fact records. Three songs. All previously unreleased.
• COmpilation LP on Clean plate records. One song. Previously unreleased.

Revolution time’s here!