Oct 16, 2026 · 14 min · 8 segments
The Everblack Podcast caught up with Erik Ohlsson from Swedish skate punk legends Millencolin to chat about their upcoming return to Australia for Good Things Festival and their headline sideshows…
Erik OhlssonGuest
Nev PearceHost
I mean, I mean, it was something like we, we'd done these three albums first where we're in just, like, this hot, uh...
One, one was, like, faster punk and, and- And one third wa- was more like pop punk.
Every album have, have, uh, roughly, uh, 12 songs, and it was like four ska songs and four, four, four, four.
We've ended the For Monkeys, uh, tour in, in South America, which was kind of a rough tour in, uh, in '98.
And then our singer, Ni- Nikola Jokic, kind of had enough [laughs] 'cause we'd been touring for so much during, during those years.
I need a break." So we took a break, uh, during '99, but that was also like I was editing, like, our, our video called Melancholic Man and The High Eight Adventures, like, uh, uh, VHS, which was released, and we also did The Melancholic Collection, a collection of, of our oldest singles.
For, for people, they didn't even know we were gone, but we, we weren't practicing or, or even, you know, he was in Gothenburg-
... and we l- never even met during '99, or, or from '90, mid '98 to mid '99, because, uh, summer '99 we went to the US to record this album.
So we, we had, like, o- one year off, and then Brett Gurewitz from Bad Religion, Epitaph, he wanted to, to produce our next album, and that got us, you know, super excited to...
I mean, I mean, it was something like we, we'd done these three albums first where we're in just, like, this hot, uh...
One, one was, like, faster punk and, and- And one third wa- was more like pop punk.
Every album have, have, uh, roughly, uh, 12 songs, and it was like four ska songs and four, four, four, four.
We've ended the For Monkeys, uh, tour in, in South America, which was kind of a rough tour in, uh, in '98.
And then our singer, Ni- Nikola Jokic, kind of had enough [laughs] 'cause we'd been touring for so much during, during those years.
I need a break." So we took a break, uh, during '99, but that was also like I was editing, like, our, our video called Melancholic Man and The High Eight Adventures, like, uh, uh, VHS, which was released, and we also did The Melancholic Collection, a collection of, of our oldest singles.
For, for people, they didn't even know we were gone, but we, we weren't practicing or, or even, you know, he was in Gothenburg-
... and we l- never even met during '99, or, or from '90, mid '98 to mid '99, because, uh, summer '99 we went to the US to record this album.
So we, we had, like, o- one year off, and then Brett Gurewitz from Bad Religion, Epitaph, he wanted to, to produce our next album, and that got us, you know, super excited to...
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
