?Formed in Ulvila, Finland in 1996 by school friends Jussi Ylikoski (guitar) and Mikko Hakila (drums), Disco Ensemble started out life as a garage/shed band figuring out their instruments through the works of Metallica and other rock giants, eventually finding life as a emo-core punk rock act influenced by the likes of Refused and Snapcase, and taking the Finnish charts by storm. The group played its first sets as DisCo, in 1997, but soon had to take a name change after a pop group emerged with the same m...   [ read more ]

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