Endstand Signs With Lifeforce Records Yet Untitled Album Scheduled For March 2006 Release

LIFEFORCE RECORDS is proud to welcome Finnish powerhouse ENDSTAND to its family and the signing of a multiple album deal with the band. This explosive quintet connects drive, power and a good dose of melodies in between hardcore (of old AND new school), punk and rock'n'roll and is showing another side of passionate, premium hardcore-music, LIFEFORCE is best known for.

The release of ENDSTAND's yet unitled Lifeforce debut is scheduled for March
2006.

ENDSTAND is heading out for a full European Tour by the beginning of next week.

Stefan Luedicke, Lifeforce CEO and president comments: "I'm very happy to welcome (back) ENDSTAND to the family, a band I started my work in the music business with seven years ago on my old label Impression Records. This and the fact I consider the people in the band as personal friends makes me proud to work with them on their next albums."

Band Line-Up:

Janne: vocals - Mika: guitar - Joel: bass - Juho: guitar - Pekka: drums.

Shouter Janne comments the deal: "Well, what can i say. Feels like it's a new start for the band - we got a new drummer early this year and that's been a huge kick in the whole band's ass! With that line-up change we got so much new energy and talent to the band, feels like we're totally unstoppable now! On last tour we did one year ago we started to talk about maybe doing our next release on a new label who could promote us more so we would get the attention we think we deserve.

We've been doing the band for ten years now and feel more confident with this all than ever before. The new songs we've done for the next album are so damn intense, can't wait to get to record them! And knowing that more people will be able to find us through Lifeforce has made us try even harder.

Signing to a label that is more known for metal than hardcore, which is the style we play, is kind of a risk, but we're willing to take it. we've never been the band taking the easy way out and we believe that when you do something well enough, people will find it, no matter what. Day After, the label we were on before is more known as an 'emo' label, now we'll be on metal label - We are a hardcore band with open minds and hope that the people will be smart enough to check us out even we may sound different than the most of our label buddies."

After they formed up back in 1996 ENDSTAND soon created a sound of their own. During their ten year existence the quintet have become a constant within Europe's hardcore scene and gained a lot of attention from touring as much as possible. And that's what the boys have done - over ten European tours, one tour in Japan and several shows in Finland - over 500 shows altogether!

Ever since their first show ENDSTAND have been considered to be an entertaining and tight live-band (Thanks to the hard working ethic!) and took their music seriously. The band has done lots of releases on different labels while musically experimenting with bits from different styles of hardcore/punk. Some recordings have been more metallic, some more rock, but the basic sound has always been there. In the end it always have been ENDSTAND! Strong guitar melodies and screaming vocals are two things that have always been there and have made the band's sound recognizable.

Even though ENDSTAND have been together for 10 years now, the driving force is still the will to create passionate and sincere music. ENDTSTAND is a group of friends who share the desire to make music, travel the world playing it and having fun when doing it.

Discography:

Fear of Future demo tape 1996
Split 7" with Outlast (Grey Days / Bridge, 1997)
Tolerance 7" EP 1997 (Rising Justice)
S/T MCD (Impression, 1998)
Split MCD with Aurinkokerho (Halla, 1999)
To Whom It May Concern CD ( Impression, 1999)
Picture Disk 7" EP (Combat Rock Industry, 2000)
Fire Inside 10"/CD (Combat Rock Industry, 2001)
Split MCD with Kafka (No! / Fuxony, 2002)
Never Fall Into Silence LP/CD (Day After, 2002)
Hit And Run 12"/MCD (Combat Rock Industry, 2003)
Burning Bridges LP/CD (Day After, 2004)

Endstand Tour Dates:

11/07/05 DE Hamburg @ Hafenklang

11/08/05 DE Bremen @ Wehrschloss w/ Comeback Kid, Bane

11/09/05 DE Leisnig @ AJZ w/ The Difference and more

11/10/05 IT Bolzano @ Bunker

11/11/05 IT Milano @ Leoncavallo

11/12/05 IT Pisa @ Riot Club

11/13/05 AT Wien @ Arena w/ Comeback Kid, Bane

11/14/05 SI Nova Gorica @ Mostovna

11/15/05 CR Zagreb @ Mocvara

11/16/05 AT Graz @ Explosiv

11/17/05 CH Luzern @ Sedel

11/18/05 DE Saalfeld @ Klubhaus w/ Heaven Shall Burn, Ira

11/19/05 DE Potsdam @ Waschhaus w/ Deadlock, Narziss and more

11/20/05 PL Chorzow @ Zanzibar

11/21/05 CZ Prague @ 007

11/22/05 HU Budapest @ Süss Fell Nap

11/23/05 DE Nuenchritz @ Kombi

11/24/05 AT Innsbruck @ PMK

11/25/05 DE Konstanz @ Kontrast w/ A Thin Red Line

11/26/05 DE Bochum @ Matrix, Animal Liberation Fest w/ Maroon, Deadlock, Sunrise, Undying, Liar

11/27/05 DE Stuttgart @ Juha West

11/28/05 DE Trier @ Exhaus w/ Sunrise, Undying

11/29/05 F Lyon @ Le Clos Fleuri

11/30/05 SP Barakaldo (Bilbao) @ Edaska Club

12/01/05 SP Barcelona @ Sala Magic

12/02/05 SP Zaragoza @ Arrebato

12/03/05 F Caen @ Bar Laplace

12/04/05 DE Koeln @ Blue Shell

12/05/05 SE Linkoeping @ Skylten

For more info log onto: fireninsidemusic.com/endstand
and myspace.com/endstand.