Music Album: Mucho Mas Chaos - Split CD
Album Release Date: January 2003
Music Genre: Punk Rock Ska Hardcore
Record Label: Hannibal's Records
Album Release Country: Europe
Music Record Type: 12 Tracks CD EP
Beans was formed in February 1996, they started out as a cover band. Covering songs from Operation Ivy, Rancid and Choking Victim to hone their musical skills which were then basically non-existent (Sander and Ronald had picked up the guitar just a few months earlier). After a year their bassplayer left the band due to a lack of motivation. So Ronald, Sander en Bikkel decided to go on with just the three of them. They were still covering their all time favourites and never expected to leave the practice room to do a show. But someone asked them to play a show for some people he knew. For this show he needed a name to be put on the flyer. In a hurry Sander, Bikkel and Ronald decided to call their band 'Beans'. After that they played some more Beans shows and people started to recognize the name. So they were stuck with the name. Two weeks before this first show, Blok told them that he would love to play the bassguitar in their band. Blok had never played the bassguitar before. Blok never left.
After three years of playing shows they decided to record their first full length album 'weapons of the weak'. They recorded it in two days. All their friends liked the album so much that they decided to send a copy of it to a large dutch metal/punk/hardcore magazine just for fun. Onno cromag (a reviewer for the magazine and something of a Hardcore/punk guru) recieved it. After hearing it he gave the band a phonecall, because he was shocked about the high quality of the album. He had (...)
1 | Pigs To Their Pens |
2 | Reap What You Sow |
3 | Authorities Demise |
4 | Lost Souls |
5 | For Sale |
6 | The Next Step |
7 | You Stabbed Me In My Back |
8 | Technology |
9 | Burn It All |
10 | Pull Through |
11 | Blackmind |
12 | Hey Kid |
BBK and Beans songs are available on 7" on Pogo Punx Records
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