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The Provenance

See you at the barricades!

About Me


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Second and Last but not Always - directed by Tobias Martinsson
Biography
Since the start in 1995, The Provenance general aim, both musically as well as lyrically, has been to portray the hopelessness, despair and frustration of living in a bleak and gloomy world. This is also where one is able to find the beauty and wonders of reality.
Having released How would you like to be spat at in January 2005, they managed to prove, not only to themselves but also to the attentive masses, they stand securely with both feet on the ground in an experimental, tentative world of pitch-black music. The drastic development this band has undergone over the years clearly indicates their uniqueness when it comes to experimentation and alteration, musically as well as personally. In hope to inspire and enthuse, The Provenance incessantly continues to pound the shape of uniform, homogeneous and narrow-minded conceptions of the music scene at large. The Swedes have always embraced the notion of artistic exploration and development and consistently return with a fresh musical approach incomparable to each and every one of their previous releases, including the awe-inspiring work of 2001's 25th hour; bleeding, 2003's Still at arms length and 2005's How would you like to be spat at.
Leaving Scarlet Records behind in 2005, the band strives onward with their fourth full-length release Red flags, due 2006 on Peaceville Records so the bands future looks brighter than ever before.
Through various hardships and ordeals, in the face of mundane everyday life intrusions, this dark and restless quintet has constantly stuck together. They have stood and delivered, year by year, album by album and thus, unsurprisingly, the number of followers has steadily increased. With Red flags the band makes perfectly clear they will stand even taller, see even clearer and speak even louder. There is definitely an undeniable straightforwardness in correlation with Red Flags and the lyrics and music portray the aggressive, heartbroken and cynical insights of what life may and most frequently does bring. It is time to put up a fight and stare the wretchedness and cruelty of mankind dead in the eye. Pull yourselves together and let us take this final step together and collectively walk into the mouth of oblivion. Raise your flags people, for revolution will come and the leaders have already been appointed.
So, to all devotees of dim and expressionistic music, no matter in what casing; this is The Provenance in 2007, reluctant to look back. This is The Provenance, the official sponsors of the end.

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Music:

Member Since: 2/14/2006
Band Website: theprovenance.com
Band Members: Tobias Martinsson
l Guitar, vocals l

Joel Lindell
l Drums, lyrics l

Emma Hellström
l Vocals, keyboards l

Jonnie Täll
l Bass l

Joakim Rosén
l Lead Guitar l

Influences: Decadence, death, drugs and misery and loads of Punk!
Sounds Like: Nothing short of Punk!
Record Label: Peaceville Records www.peaceville.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Interviews . .

Hi all! During the last weeks we've done a lot of interviews and stuff. If you're intrested in what we have to say, here's a few of them:http://www.rzk-voyager.com/artists_01.php?nLang=1&i nterview...
Posted by The Provenance on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:57:00 PST

'RED FLAGS' OUT NOW!

 "RED FLAGS" OUT NOW!Finally the day has come for the official release of "Red Flags". Our fourth toddler should now be in stores, taking the first timorous steps toward the unknown. You be sure ...
Posted by The Provenance on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:41:00 PST

General...

...situation:Tobias is away for a month, visiting mutual friends in a band called Maison Blanche who are currently recording their debut album in New York city. The rest of us are currently stuck in G...
Posted by The Provenance on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:17:00 PST

EP out now!!!

EP OUT NOW!'Second and last but not always'Go to www.peaceville.com to download!...
Posted by The Provenance on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:18:00 PST

Tracklists...

...for the netbased EP "Second and Last but not Always" and upcoming full-length album "Red Flags" goes as follows:Second and Last but not Always contains (in whatever order you like):WoH III Tsne(the...
Posted by The Provenance on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:24:00 PST

Release dates...

...are now set. The netbased EP, containing three exclusive tracks not featured on the full-length album, will be available through www.peaceville.com sooner rather than later and Red Flags will hit t...
Posted by The Provenance on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:47:00 PST

Red Flags Video...

Cheers everyone!Just thought we'd pop in to confirm that a video will be recorded to the song "Second and last but not always" featured on the upcoming album Red Flags.Filming starts tomorrow, septemb...
Posted by The Provenance on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:58:00 PST

EP finished...

Our brand new EP has been shipped over to England and Peaceville Records for selling and distributing via something called the internet. So if anyone's interested in these four magnificent songs we a...
Posted by The Provenance on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:44:00 PST

EP Recording begins...

And so the time has come for a new recording, if only but two songs. This day will consist mainly of rigging and fixing the studio and prepare for tomorrows Punk/Doom-session... I know there are one o...
Posted by The Provenance on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:29:00 PST

Entering...

Cheers everyone,The Provenance will enter Gesperrt Studios next weekend to record exclusive material for the net based EP which will be available for download through www.peaceville.com some time this...
Posted by The Provenance on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 06:12:00 PST