THAT`S IT
Goodbye 2007
WELCOME 2008!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO
ALL OF YOU!!!!!
Goodbye 2007
WELCOME 2008!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO
ALL OF YOU!!!!!
What can be said,this is a blog where I will post some stuff I really like,so I think you should like it too.I am a metalhead to the heart,but I will put here every kind of stuff I like,not only Metal.I hope you will enjoy it,and let me know if there is anything needed,especially from the ex-Yugoslavia territory. Cheers!


Here we go back to the very beginning of the 80s and the explosion of Hard Rock and Metal bands in the ex-Yugoslavia.Generacija 5 were a very good Hard Rock band from Serbia,leaded by Sladjana Milosevic`s younger brother Goran.The recording of this (their debut) album is very good,and their melodic Hard Rock sounds cool.They never became popular as A.Skloniste or R.Corba or D.Jagode were,but still left a strong trace in the story of Rock in the ex-Yu.
I found this demo in a drawer,so I told myself Maybe somebody searches for this one..man,it is not my cup of tea..some Doom Metal,but for my opinion,played (or produced?) very weak,miles away from the strenght of ie.Ashes You Leave.But,anyway,for the ones collecting Metal bands from the ex-Yugoslavia territory,this one is something you must have.
I am new at this one,so I don`t have much to say.A SXE band from Zagreb,they exist 2 years now,and had few releases and a lot of gigs around.The stuff you have here is something I found on the net,entitled Promo 2006..now,whatever it is,it sounds veeery good.Meanwhile enjoy this very short three-tracker,more to come from them,for sure.
You know I love finnish mid 80s HC in an extreme way,I even had a band with total influence by them..well,Mellakka were a band who were among the bands that "know to play".I know it sounds ridicolous,but yeah,they knew to play.And they did it very well!These are three tracks of Thrashing HC,in a-let`s say-Mob 47 way (but not that fast).Anyway,a nice piece of work.This demo can be found on their 1984-1986 compilation cd.
At that time it was nearly impossible to follow who`s where in the Rijeka Metal-scene,especially in the Black Metal part of it.GW are in a way the follow-up to Castrum,but in a very darker way.
This cd is a beautiful collection of a single,2 tracks and an album of,with Discharge,my favourite Punk band of all the times.It contains the Police Story single from 1981 (tx 1-2),the album Partisans from 1983 (tx 3-14) and 2 extra tracks (tx 15-16).No wonder I covered them with my band AntiTodor I Talenti.Those were the days...Highly recommended!!
This is the third EP of their trilogy,and of course the most Hardcore-ish.The Fish In A Pool version from this EP found place on the MRR`s Welcome To 1984 compilation,so that must mean something,right?Nice EP.
Excellent,excellent Black Metal coming from Bosnia.I am really surprised with this one,as well as with the name of the band (means BLOOD).Sounds to me like good oldschool BM with extreme production,all in all an album I recommend!And also,by request.
I decided I will post the complete YU part of the AS discography,and until now I went by year of release,but now I skipped 2 albums and passed to the next and unfortunately last live album AS ever did with Djoser,the vocalist,on this album now visibly approaching his last months of life.I remember the news about Djoser from the Ljubljana Hospital I had from the band directly when I was a kid,and I remember his situation prior to this concert recorded on this album..Well..This album is one of the best live albums recorded in Yugoslavia.Hard Rock with balls.And this is posted for Darko by his request.Enjoy.
Aaaaarrrrghhh!!This single killlllssss!I don`t even remember when I got it,but surely it is a nice piece of vinyl.The material you got here is a vinyl rip,done not extremely well,but I am not that sure if you can get a much better sound in any way.DM kills with their downtuned sound.And their creeping Death Metal.I adore this one.
Well,it is a pity that all the good bands in Croatia sooner or later disappear..This one is a proof.Great atmospheric Black Metal,from those guys (and girl),this is their first demo,I have one more to go,plus the demo of the band from which was Darkendome formed,Natural Disaster.

I am sorry I don`t have a scanner bigger than A4 format to scan the album cover (the same,just that it would be more detailed).I remember when this album was released,there was a ban in both UK and Yugoslavia,here because of the cover showing a card of the region around Zagreb burning-the album was recorded live at the Mosa Pijade hall in Zagreb the 24th April 1983- and in UK for lyrics in the songs Streets Of London and So What,which on the record edition have several beeps during the song!!Can you believe it??Here you have the clean,uncensored version.I will never forget playing with my band Talenti as support to them in Pula in 1997,here`s the flyer for that show;
and a pic of ANWL live;
Enjoy this one,this is a great album.A weird production,but a great album.And a great document of a deceased country.
This is a mass request,we already had a demo here,as well as the new track Zmanjana Dica.This is their first album,released in Croatia and a rarity nowadays.The band themselves hates this album,because they wanted a more heavier production,and the producer Guido Mineo nearly ruined it all.Still,this is a very very good album,clearly balanced between a nu-metal sound and a modern no-drum-machine played hip-hop.The band showed,with the new track that their album will be a LOT heavier and Metal oriented,so we just have to wait to it.
Asow in action! This one is an EP made by my friend Asow, a very nice short but sharp collection of earsmashing tracks, cybergrindcore, I think. I hope there will be more from Cold Meat, I like this stuff. Now, Asow is living in Varazdin, so ...
Sorry for the pics,this were the biggest I found this very moment,maybe I`ll scan some pics later.
This is their last ep dated 1986,surely the most chaotic and fastest stuff they did,but still in the purest Pandemonium way.Including a track that the band themselves called Horrible Rap Part.Which is very true.But the rest of the EP is mind-blowing.Of course,obligatory.
I do not have any info about the band, but this is very good stuff.The band that hailed from Pozega recorded few demos, the last in 1997, and then split-up.I got this live recording from my friend Mika, and I thank him a lot, this is great material and sure something to witness if not the most quantitative, then the surely most qualitative period of Croatian Metal.6 tracks in all, no track list, sorry.
Finally,something from the Croatian one-man-band legend Gruuthaagy,made by one of the most active person in the Cro-underground,Kukatz.Gruuthaagy is part of numerous split-ep`s,compilations,but also made a big lot of self releases.I hope that Kukatz don`t mind if I put this ep here,even if I don`t know what year it was made.
I like this one,very much.ED are hailing from one of my favourite world`s cities,Sarajevo,and represent fresh blood in Bosnian Metal.This is their first official material,and it is a very good beginning.Let`s hope they won`t be just a one-off band,so 2008 should be their year for a full album.
Very funny stuff from this Croatian melodic HC/Punk,sang in Croatian.This is their last album,I am not that much into this band,so I cannot give you full info about them,but I recommend it to the ones who like a greatly recorded album of melodic Punk.
This was a nice one,and I must say,I really liked Proces from Vojvodina,SD were good too,but Proces made an impact on me.I even covered Nemojte Misliti.. with my band Antitodor I Talenti,many years after I first heard that EP.What we have here is pure HCPunk made in 80s,so you have to love it.
Woooooooooow,this is great stuff here!!A SOUNDBOARD excellent recording of Brutal Truth live in Holland 1993 (a year before they played in Pula,right?).This is something you don`t want to miss,I am sure.This is a perfect recording of,for my opinion,Brutal Truth at the top of their creativity.They are a band unique for many reasons,and anyway one of the best live acts I have ever seen.And also great dudes off the stage,of course.Take this one,you won`t regret.

I do not really know which is this DS`s release,I lost the count..DS were a very productive band (I really hope they will be the same again),and this is one of their earlier releases..It is called as an album,probably because of his length,but for my opinion,the first real album was Evil Or Divine,but it depends on the point of view.
This band is one of the strongest Metal acts in Slovenia,and this album shows it in every bit.A very professional recording performed in a very professional way,so every fan of the Melodic Death/Black Metal played in a specifically melodic way should have this one.
This is the first single EP of this very young,but very noisy Dutch HC band,I told the most about them at the album post (go back for it),and so I won`t tell nothing special,except that the band were in the beginning of the noise-making on this EP,so I can tell that this one sounds to me most "Punk-ish" of all their stuff,even this "Punk-ish" is very,very in traces.The noise rules with Pandemonium.Recommended.
You know what kind of stuff ENT do..there is no surprise about it,if a band is good in their own stuff,they have to be good even in covers.ENT picked up 6 tracks here and covered it very well,I am especially glad that 3 out of 6 are Discharge covers,hehe..so this is a very nice release that steps a little aside from the usual ENT releases,and anyway,if you like covers,this one is a must have.
Now,this is what I call an original name;a parody of the well known Black Sabbath name,with the second word changed into "sabah",which in Bosnian (or muslim or Turkish or whatever) means

Now,you will say I went completely out of my mind..well,this CD was something I discovered 13 years ago,and the whole thing dates some 15 yrs ago..I found out this extreme,violent and insane side of Techno/House/whatever music,and must admit that I liked it sooo much..it is sometimes extremer than any Metal or HC,it is claustrophobic because it is closed mostly to one repetitive rhythmic phrase played with distorted synthetic bass drum,as well as distorted synthetic sounds all around (of course,except for the voice here and there,everything is synthetic)..just look at the cover,that`s what can bring you a longer consumation of this kind of music,and the drugs and chemicals that go with it..I dedicate this one to the extremists visiting this blog,if you don`t spare MB`s,try it..you could be surprised.
Satan rules!And if you know me,you know I am not talking about the devil one,but about this one,the 200% sure most charismatic person of the Croatian (and ex-Yugoslav) scene.Ivica Culjak Jr. (aka Kecer 2) was the Croatian version of GG Allin,a guy with some mental disturbances,but a genious in what he did.This cassette surely goes to my top-10 releases in the Balkans of all the times.The rip here is perfect,let me describe you the music in here.Punk Rock without compromises,side A (tracks 1-8)recorded is a studio recording with a band made by a drummer and two distorted basses (btw,one of those two,as far as I know,played by Bare from Majke).The sibe b is recorded in a room with an acoustic guitar and is an insane recording of Ivica`s poetry with an acoustic guitar making noise.Absolutely great.