Mutiny on the Bounty was founded in April 2004 by Nicolas Prezor and Sacha Hanlet. Their first release was a split-album in 2005, with "Treasure-Chest at the End of the Rainbow" also a Luxembourg-based band, in which Sacha Hanlet was also active. At this time, the band consisted of David Schmit (guitarist of Eternal Tango), Luciano Lippis, and the two founding members. This split-album was licensed by the Canadian record-label New Romance for Kids, for Canada, United States, and Japan. In 2007, Moreira left the group and Claudio Pianini joined them as bassist. Thereafter,
Mutiny on the Bounty toured through Europe and shared the stage with bands like
Battles,
And so I watch you from afar,
65 Days of Static,
Coheed and Cambria,
These Arms are Snakes,
Akimbo,
Russian Circles,
Portugal. The Man,
Red Sparowes,
31 Knots, and
Fear before the March of Flames. Nevertheless, the band alongside continued to work on songs for their debut album. Each member of the band delivered a variety of song-fragments, which were then edited together. Thus arose songs that involve various influences, but can nonetheless be regarded as the work of a band. It took ten months until the songs were ready to record. After nearly two years of preparation, they finally went in the studio to record their debut album
Danger Mouth with Philippe Matgé one of the best sound engineers throughout Luxembourg. The album was mastered in
New York City in the
West WestSide Studios by Alan Douches.
Danger Mouth was published in 2009 by Redfield Records in Germany and Big Scary Monsters Records in England. Other international concerts followed, inter alia a gig at the
South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in
Austin Texas. In August 2011 Pianini and Lippis were replaced by Cedric Czaika and Clement Delporte. Also in 2011, they were seen in Govinda van Maeles “We might as well fail” documentation. Mutiny on the Bounty's second album
Trials was recorded within one month in
Seattle in the
Red Room Recording Studio of the well-known American producer
Matt Bayles. The band sent Bayles a link with a few of their songs, and after a meeting in the context of their performance in Austin they had convinced him to record their new album. The band financed the production through crowdfunding.
Trials was published 2011 by Redfield Records in Germany and Best before Records in England. The release-party of
Trials was on May 4, 2012 in
Den Atelier in
Luxembourg City.
Mutiny on the Bounty were supported by the Luxembourgish bands
Heartbeat Parade and
Mount Stealth. In April, a music video for the single
Artifacts was released, for the song
Myanmar a music video was published in February 2013. In early 2014, another video for
Mapping the Universe appeared. The third album
Digital Tropics was recorded with producer Jan Kerscher in the
Ghost City Recording Studios near
Nuremberg and was mixed by
Jan Kerscher. The first single from this album is named
MKL JKSN and was published with the corresponding music video on March 2. 2015 by Visions magazine in Germany and 7BitArcade in England.
Telekinesis, the second single from the album was released exclusively on April 3. 2015 via the website of the
Clash Magazine. The release show for their third album took place on April 17 in the
Kufa in Esch-sur-Alzette. The album was released on the same day on
CD, the
LP followed on May 22, 2015 released by
Redfield Records (DE) and
Deaf Rock Records (FR). In the UK,
Digital Tropics was released on May 26, 2015 on CD and LP by their new
Record label Small Pond Records (UK). The music video for the third single
dance Automaton dance appeared on YouTube on June 17, 2015. On July 17, 2015,
Digital Tropics was released on the record-label
Friend of mine Records in Japan. The Japanese version of the album appears as a Digi-sleeve with a new design, the bonus track
Bleak Future, and a remix of the song
Ecliptic which was remixed by
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