3 mar 2011

PRIVATE LINE - hard rock from Finland


In December 2002, they released their second CD-EP Six Songs of Hellcity Trendkill with a revamped, energy-filled style with hard R'N'R riffs flavored with synthesizers.
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 The Band used 3 earlier recorded songs:  Crack In Reality ,   

  
Makin' A Mess Since'77

  
 
 Grown Like Others
  

and 3 new songs:

 
Superstar I.Q

 
 Downstairs Upstairs  

 Virgin Suicide 
 The EP got positive reviews from the Finnish rock media as well as glam and hard rock orientated webzines. 


Private Line toured a lot during the year of 2003 with bands like Negative, Peer Gunt, Hybrid Children etc. and started to build up their fan-base in Finland.

The band also worked on new songs during the tour and at the end of 2003 they entered the studio to record their forthcoming single Forever And A Day. The single also included the tracks  


Cheerleaders & Dopedealers  


Sleep Tight
an old Private Line song from the 90's.
Sleep Tight could also be heard in the Finnish box-office hit movie and soundtrack Levottomat3 by Solar Films Inc. in February 2004. 


Debut album "21st Century Pirates" (2004)


The second single from the debut album carrying the name

 1-800-Out-of-Nowher
was put out in June 2004 and reached #4 in the Finnish single charts. The video of the song stayed on MTV's Up North Top10 video chart for 10 weeks.

 Castaway Holiday 

A third single (released December 2004) from the album called Already Dead brought the band more success with another top 5 charting in their native Finland.

 White-Collar Crime

While God saves I destroy

Live Wire

From their forthcoming album, Private Line unveiled a new single on May 31, 2006 called  

 Broken Promised Land
 The single featured another song from the upcoming album, called Uniform.

In October 2006 they released a new song entitled Alive on their MySpace page and revealed that the new album would be called Evel Knievel Factor. The album was released on the 1st of November, and album reached #23 on the Finnish albums chart.

The SINdicate

 Evel Knievel Factor

Prozac Nation

 A second single from the album, called Sound Advice, was released on 31 January 2007, and reached #2 on the singles chart in Finland and stayed there for 7 weeks. Lyrics to "Sound Advice" as well as to "Gods of Rewind" and "Billion Star Hotel" were written in collaboration with Rory Winston. 

The Sound Advice single also featured two previously unreleased songs, Tokyo (Tokyo was released also on Evel Knievel Factor's Japan version with the cover version of the Cheap Tricks song He's A Whore) and

 Criminal
Criminal is originally by Finnish rock band Smack. It also included the music video for the song Broken Promised Land.

At the end of 2007, Private Line was asked to participate in the Pepsi Max campaign covering the main campaign song "More" written by hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas. The band recorded their version of the song and it ended up in the Pepsi campaign during November and December 2007 in Finland. Pepsi bottles included the band's logo, a photo of the band and code for the song in the bottles' sticker.

More

 Recently the band has played new songs from their new album which will be released in 2010. The name of the songs are "Live, Learn And Grow Apart", "13th Step From The Grave", "Down Came The Rain" and "Deathbedtime Stories"

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