The Masked Animals from St. Gallen, Switzerland, play fast & catchy melodic-punk since 6 years. They already have 3 full-lenghts out, and the 4th "the simple joys of life" has just been released these days. It features the video-clip "The Circle", for which the band went to France for shooting. The Masked Animals played 2 tours in the USA so far. Moreover they played tons of shows in Germany, Italy, France, Austria. Sold out shows thru all Switzerland comes from their powerful and energetic live-performance. Now the bands former manager joined, The Masked Animals are hard working as a 4-piece and unite sound-influences from Punkrock to Emo, from Hardcore to Indie-rock. After successful tours in the US, in Europe and Switzerland, 2 Videoclips, over 25 Songs on international compilations and even a song on a Japanese Skateboard-Video, they played with Sportfreunde Stiller (D), The Stereo (USA), Real McKenzies (USA), Terrorgruppe (D), Ten Foot Pole (USA). Even the US-Fanzine Maximum Rock'n'Roll said: "This is better than most of this stuff - it blows Ten Foot Pole out of the water - far better than Lagwagon" Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.