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Chapter 18: Final Exit (Swe)

Well, I have to admit that I was one of those people that didn’t know that this was actually a side project to the mighty Refused back then. It’s kind of funny because I was a diehard Refused fan (and still is) and didn’t see the connection at all. I remember picking up their album ”Teg”, it had the Desperate Fight Records logo on the back and to me that was all I needed to know. I had already picked up killer records with Abhinanda, Separation and Shield on the same label so I recognized the logo as a symbol of quality. I was alot into hardcore but I sure had never heard a band that played as fast as Final Exit. Goddamn, they were fast! Fucking right-in-your-face old school hardcore!

 

 

 

 So how could it pass me by who they actually were? 1. This was long before myspace and facebook. 2. The members of Final Exit used nicknames 3. They didn’t show their faces on the record covers. 4. Final Exit only made a handful of gigs and I never had the chance to see them. 5. It was never their intention to be an all-star-band.

 Final Exit were a shortlived project, but will always be remembered for bringing the sense of humour into hardcore. Their attitude was raw and uniqe and sure have influenced other Swedish bands like D.S.-13, Second Thought and Hårda Tider, to name a few.

 Since both their albums sold out ages ago, Monument thought it would be a great idea to re-release them (together with all their other tracks) as ”Det egentliga Västerbotten - complete discography”.  Make sure to pick up this piece of Swedish hardcore history if you haven’t already.

/ Micke Persson (www.refusedfan.com)

 

When Refused wanted to relax in the rehearsal room and for a moment take themselves a little less seriously, they switched instruments with each other and started to play oldschool hardcore. 
They called themselves Final Exit, used pseudonyms and immediately became the notorious and popular hardcore band in Umeå, Sweden. Sometimes they played naked and sometimes they even invited the kids to take the moshpit out to the street. One can say that if the members controlled their madness and rage in their regular bands they got out of control totally in Final Exit. 
While Refused was at the forefront with their new school, Final Exit took it back to the hardcore roots. The band managed to get something of a cult status during their short career. The band only existed four years long but it was an insanely entertaining history lesson! 

Now both the full-length albums "Teg" and "Umeå", together with compilation tracks and other stuff comes out as "Det egentliga Västerbotten - Complete discography 94-97". Coloured vinyl, gatefold cover, poster and even a live DVD included! 
Expect this release to be something extra, like a milestone in the history of hardcore. This is a monument representing the storm that swept in over Sweden, Scandinavia, the world, during the time era of the 90's!

The members of Final Exit and Final Exit as a band where known for their uncompromising lifestyle (straight edge) and their hard, fast music. They where around since 87, from the beginning of the Umeå Hardcore scene.

They released Teg, their first album in 94. 15 tracks of raw, brutal, hard, fast straight in your face hardcore classics. Their second and last album, entitled Umeå [sound samples] came in early 97 and it was backed up by the bands Final tour. The band had allready realized that there was no place in todays hardcore scene for a band like Final Exit. They where TOO real and didn´t want to take part of todays fake scene...

Members:

Dave Exit • Vocals
Other bands: Refused, Text, The Facer, Faint Sounds Of Shoveled Earth, David Sandström Overdrive, AC4 etc...

D-rp • Bass
Other bands: Refused, Step Forward, The Lost Patrol Band, T(I)NC, Garbage Pailkids, 93 Million Miles From The Sun, AC4, Invasionen, Instängd etc...

SXE Guile • Drums
Other bands: Refused, Abhinanda etc... 

Anders And • Guitar
Other bands: Saidiwas, 93 Million Miles From The Sun etc...

Kid Stone • Guitar
Other bands: Refused, Abhinanda, Drift Apart, Text etc...

 

Discography:

"DET EGENTLIGA VÄSTERBOTTEN - KOMPLETT DISKOGRAFI 94-97" CD - 2007
Released by Mofab Teg Recordings in April 2007 as MOFAB003. This is the complete discography of Final Exit! Also to be released on vinyl by Monument Records in 2009, this version will also include the reunion gig from Umeå Open 2007 on DVD! 

Track 1-22 are from the UMEÅ album. Track 23-24 are from the 7". Track 25 is from the compilation "IN OUR TIME". Track 26 is from the compilation "SXE AS FUCK VOL.3". Track 27 is from the compilation "SXE AS FUCK VOL.2". Track 28-42 are from the TEG album. Track 43 is from the compilation "SXE AS FUCK VOL.1". 

• Straight edge terror force
• Proficiency 
• Punk enough
• Majvy Rosén
• And never again
• Wall of death
• 17 scoops 
• What if?
• Roles and rules
• You suck
• Oil unit corps god country
• Not a punkrock song
• Of violence and conformity
• Bent out of shape
• True til maturity II
• Better than who crew?
• Bomb victim
• Emptiness a virtue
• Wife and kids and television grave
• Built to last
• Majvy Rosén (instr.)
• Umeå hardcore
• Blood
• I do believe in the USA
• Fuck you cowboy
• Spänningen släpper
• Sing along
• Revenge
• True til maturity
• Talk behind my back
• Flame of my conviction
• This time
• Respect
• NC-SXE
• Scene pride
• One weak link
• Wedge of ignorance
• Higher form of killing
• Purpose
• Molded
• Mutilated scumbag
• The beginning
• Mutilated scumbag

 

"TOO LATE FOR APOLOGIES" 7" - 1997 
Released by Third Party Records (USA) as TPR005. Track 2, 4, 6 and 7 are from the UMEÅ album, track 5 is from the TEG album. See recording data below. Track 1 is from the "SXE AS FUCK VOL.2" compilation, recorded at Dunkers in 1995. Track 3 and 8 were previously unreleased at the time for this release.

• Sing along
• You suck
• Blood
• Bent out of shape
• Scene pride
• Oil unit corps god country
• And never again
• I do believe in the USA

 

"UMEÅ" CD/CS - 1997
Released by Desperate Fight Records as DFR15. Recorded by Hoja and Mats at Second Home Studios late 1996. Also released by Desperate Fight Records in the US as DFR6/VD05, US-version distributed by Victory Records. Released on cassette as well on Shing Records (Poland). The cassette version also includes the TEG album.

• Straight edge terror force 
• Proficiency
• Punk enough 
• Majvy Rosén 
• And never again 
• Wall of death 
• Of violence and conformity 
• 17 Scoops 
• What if? 
• Roles and rules 
• You suck 
• Oil unit corps god country 
• Not a punkrock song 
• Bent out of shape 
• True til maturity II 
• Better than who crew? 
• Bomb victim 
• Emptiness a virtue 
• Wife and kids and television grave 
• Built to last 
• Majvy Rosén (instr.) 
• Umeå hardcore

 

"TEG" CD - 1995
Released by Desperate Fight Records as DFR6. Recorded by Pelle G at Luleå Hardcore Studio in early 1995. Also released by Desperate Fight Records in the US as DFR10/VD02, US-version distributed by Victory Records.

• Revenge 
• True 'til maturity 
• Talk behind my back 
• Flame of my conviction 
• This time 
• Respect 
• NC-SXE
• Scene pride 
• One weak link 
• Wedge of ignorance 
• Higher form of killing 
• Purpose 
• Molded 
• Mutilated scumbag 
• The beginning

 

Compilations: 

STRAIGHT EDGE AS FUCK # 1 - 1994 (Desperate Fight)
• Mutilated scumbag (previously unreleased version)

STRAIGHT EDGE AS FUCK # 2 - 1995 (Desperate Fight)
• Sing along (previously unreleased) 

STRAIGHT EDGE AS FUCK # 3 - 1997 (Desperate Fight)
• Spänningen släpper (previously unreleased) 

IN OUR TIME - 199? (Crimethinc)
• Fuck you cowboy (previously unreleased) 

+ some other comps...