The place: Melbourne, Australia. The story: Formed in late 2001 by ex-members of the Spoilers and the Sex Bombs the Blacklist went into the studio in January 2002 to record their debut EP 'Attacks' without having played a single show together. Throughout the next 12 months the band refined and defined their sound. They moved away from the original punk rock leanings they began with and gravitated towards the blazing trail already forged by past and present greats such as Venom, Motorhead, the Hookers and Zeke. After a year or so of solid gigging around Melbourne, the Blacklist went back into the studio to work on their debut album, "Electric and Evil", released on Spooky Records. Recorded in September 2003 the album did not see the light of day until late 2004. Late in 2004 Todd of Thunder happily accepted the Blacklist's offer of a one-way ticket on the triple axe attack suicide machine!!! Slotting effortlessly into the line-up, the Blacklist debuted the triple axe attack with UK punk legends the Anti-Nowhere League. The band undertook an extensive European tour in April/May 2005 that saw them cover the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany and Slovenia, playing 20 shows in 22 days. The Blacklist have completed work on the follow up to 2004's "Electric and Evil" and with the release their second album "TOTAL BLACKLIST" . CD features 8-page booklet.REVIEWS:'Aggressively over-the-top Blacklist, whose kill for thrills Motorheadbangery is rivalled only by their hilariously gonzo approach to lyrical themes, as evidenced by songs like Release The Gay Boy Berserker Attack and f--k Che (You Know, The Guy On The T-Shirts). The band got together in 2004, a grisly supergroup that rose from the ashes of two Melbourne punknroll bands, The Spoilers and The Sex Bombs. Collectively they became Blacklist, because individually, all of em were banned from most of the pubs in town for various offences, many of them including the fast and efficient delivery of knuckle sandwiches.' classicrockmagazine.com'Ive seen few bands around play as hard, tough and fast as The Blacklist did tonight. The band proceeded to slash and burn, seemingly with complete disregard for what anyone else would think of them and therefore in a manner Motorhead and The New Bomb Turks would have to be proud of and which few can match in a hurry.' i94bar.com'Melbourne's The Blacklist grinds out the kind of rock that makes me think of sticky carpet, the reek of ciggie smoke and beers spilled down your shirt. The Blacklist bash out the kind of tunes you would hopefully listen to in your petrol guzzling, badly painted phat-arsed car as you made your way home from a shitty job. The Blacklist frankly, play balls-out driving rock 'n' roll which makes very little claim to be anything else. The Blacklist revel in their influences. Powder Monkeys, Zeke, Venom, Motorhead. all the cool bands who did or do it in their own way and take no prisoners along the way. They do however, take a few along for the ride, and I'm signing myself up for it now!' JS - Blunt Magazine - Australia