ReleasesGodforsaken Soil (2001)Kill The Head And The Body Will Die (2002) History Has Taught Us Nothing (2003) Galg En Rad E.P. (2005) Linkswww.myspace.com/stockholmsyndromeripAboutStockholm Syndrome was a Dutch band in the vein of Refused, Botch, Thin Lizzy and Rollins Band. When they played their farewell show in September 2005 at the ZXZW festival in Tilburg the place was packed. The people there witnessed a great swan song from one of Holland's most innovative hardcore bands at the time. The band was around for only 5 years but managed to play a shitload of shows, not only in prestigious Dutch venues like Paradiso, Goudvishal, 013, Melkweg and Vera, but also numerous bars and squats all over Europe, with bands such as JR Ewing, Oil, Shai Hulud, Rise And Fall, Malkovich, Restless Youth, Textures, The Hope Conspiracy, Nine, Dead Stop and many more. Stockholm Syndrome was founded at the end of the year 2000 and played their first show exactly one year later, as Black Death released the now sold out "Godforsaken Soil" seven inch. The second one, "Kill The Head And The Body Will Die", was recorded a few months later and when it was released the initial drummer Hans Wilders was already replaced by Martijn Konings. With this line-up (the other founding members being Mario van Meer on vocals, Maarten van der Poll on guitar and Jeroen Koeleman on bass) they started doing shows more often and eventually recorded their 3rd release for Black Death: "History Has Taught Us Nothing", their critically acclaimed debut album. In spite of all the positive response, Jeroen left to form Dead Rivers and was replaced by Antal Derene. This switch completed the final line-up of SS. As of now, things got quite crazy and the band got booked everywhere from Denmark to Portugal and back. In 2004 they contributed 2 new songs to their only non-Black Death release, the "Introducing The New Heaviness" compilation (which also featured bands like Trouble Loves Us and Dead Rivers) and wrote and recorded a bunch of songs which resulted in their final effort, the "Galg En Rad" EP, which was released in early 2005. This was supposed to become a trilogy of EP's but unfortunatly the band abruptly disbanded. Most ex-members of Stockholm Syndrome are currently active in Otis, Human Demise, Lugosi and The Unborn. |
