Satanic Surfers
The Satanic Surfers were a Swedish skate punk band.
Band History
The band was founded in 1989 by Rodrigo Alfaro and Erik Kronwall. After some line-up changes, the debut EP Skate to Hell in 1993 added. The band funded the first two pressings of the CD itself and these sold in the next few months over 1000 times. In 1994, the EP was re-released by the label Bad Taste Records. At the same time, Burning Heart Records showed interest in the band. The second EP Keep Out appeared at that label.
Before the first full album was released, a fundamental change occurred in the composition of the band. The singer stepped out, Rodrigo Alfaro, the drummer, took over the vocals. The next three albums were released on Burning Heart Records, CDs which stood out above all Hero of our Time with over 60,000 sold. The Satanic Surfers toured Europe, Australia, Canada and the U.S., such as the bands Lagwagon, Good Riddance and Millencolin.
2000, the band parted ways Burning Heart Records, to switch to Bad Taste Records. The albums Fragments and Fractions (2000) and Unconsciously Confined (2002) were published in the following two years. Between these two albums Rodrigo Alfaro decided to fully concentrate on the song and left the drum part first Stevensson Martin, an employee of Bad Taste Records. This rose soon after again. Then the position on the drums has been occupied by Robert Samsonovitz was only in March 2004. The third album on Bad Taste Records, Taste the Poison, was released in 2005 after a gap of two years.
In March 2007, the band announced their dissolution.
Style
The band combines strong, strong melodies and fast punk rock rhythms with some very personal but also political lyrics. Due to the texts, the then very often negotiated by the skating, the Satanic Surfers have often been described as a skate - punk band. They were among the bands of the Swedish " punk rock explosion" in the mid-1990s. Early influences were bands like SNFU, RKL or the Misfits.