the band went through a member change at this time, tapani left and was replaced by emil nikolaisen of royal, silver, and later serena maneesh. in the late summer of 1999, selfmindead again entered the studio to begin work on their follow-up full length, "at the barricades we fall". this album, like their previous release, was distributed in scandinavia by soulscape, in europe by sally forth, and the us by solidstate. during the writing process of "barricades", emil left to pursue other interests. marko left his position as drummer and took up the guitar. marko's previous place was filled by tommy (silver, turbonegro) and the empty bass position was filled by even (silver, evil eye). after touring as a five-piece, even and tommy left to work more on their silver project. after this the band began to look for more permanent members and found håkon from a band called "mold" on bass and michal from a broken up band called, "amphibro". during this time the band rehearsed only once a month, due to michal living over 700 km away. eventually they began to tour again, mostly throughout germany and sweden.