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TEAM are a band in control of their own destiny. In the world of punk rock they're a complete one-off, numbering as they do an ex-RAF Captain, former international athlete and high-IQ graduate's, which might go some way to explaining their military precision and carefully-planned athletic-style musical workout.

A true story: TEAM's acclaimed debut 'the penalyn lp' was financed using the profits on 40,000 cigarettes brought out of Basra, Iraq and sold around the pubs and back-room of their native Midlands. Resourceful? TEAM could survive a nuclear war and still build you a guitar out of branches and berries.

Recorded in a blood-flecked pig shed in summer 2004, 'the penalyn lp' rightly received acclaim in Kerrang!, Rock Sound, Metal Hammer, DrownedInSound - airplay on Radio 1 and XFM - and drew comparisons to Queens Of The Stone Age, Mogwai and Nirvana.

But it was the product of a band who had been together for mere weeks.

Now, exactly 365 days since their debut release TEAM unleash titanic album number two 'The Line From A - B' - they are the anti-Guns N' Roses. In true Fugazi-inspired style TEAM wrote, recorded, financed, produced and mixed 'The Line From A - B' themselves, this time on a stud farm in deepest darkest Leicestershire. The striking artwork was done by their in-house designer Fraser West. One day they called their label Captains Of Industry and said; 'It's ready – come and get it!"

Live, TEAM are all about pummelling riffs and a pop sensibility buried deep within; four men feeling their own self-created power rising up through their feet. They tour incessantly. It's no surprise they live as far from the sea as you can get in the UK, their sound a dusty tightly-wound dust storm twisting across the landscape, but – crucially - forever seeking out a melody.
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