Million Dead

Emerging from the same mid-noughties post-hardcore scene as Funeral for a Friend and Hell Is for Heroes, Million Dead were an Anglo-Australian quartet influenced by the avant-garde punk rock of At the Drive-In. Named after a lyric in Swedish metal band Refused's track "The Apollo Programme Was a Hoax," the band formed in 2000 when guitarist Cameron Dean and bassist Julia Ruzicka, two Australians who had relocated to London, teamed up with vocalist Frank Turner and drummer Ben Dawson. After support slots on U.K. tours of the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, the Icarus Line, a...