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Chronic Heist
3+ albums
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In the beginning of January 2007, Stockholm-based Chronic Heist released their debut album »Fake This Dream« on Tell Me That You Love Me (home of Alarmaman and Kid Commando). The album was recorded during 2006 in their own studio »Studio Pelikaan« by Thomas Hedblom. The band was formed in late 2004 by Daniel Fagerström (piano, guitar and vocals) and Gabriel Hermansson (bass and vocals). The two of them played with a couple of different drummers and machines before finding Morten Billeskalns to complete the trio. An early idea was to create a hybrid of goth and early brittish progressive rock, a style they reffered to as »Suburban Gothic«. This idea coming up from people who was and can be seen in bands like The Je Ne Sais Quoi, Pharadox, Members of Tinnitus, Musik 77, JR Ewing and Trapdoor Fucking Exit. In other words, people with an old tradition in the swedish D.I.Y. and punkscene. In one way it is actually punk, what Chronic Heist is doing. Punk in it’s original form; music without rules. In accordance with the idea that punk is a way of seeing things, rather than a certain style of music, Chronic Heist has put themselves free to create exactly whatever they come up with. To do things, though they are or maybe because they are, musically »below the belt«. Chronic Heist is music with a big heart and great ambitions, music that go against and with everything at the same time. Music that doesn’t give a crap about belonging to a genre. New things happen all the time – surpr
