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!
Another new and pretty young Croatian Metal band,great (modern) Thrash Metal,I received great reviews of their live performances,and I can only add that this is a very powerful recording,and that this band surely have a bright future..Meanwhile,while we wait the first full cd,enjoy this nice demo!!Recommended!
Tracks: 01.Blazing energy 02.Sufosia 03.Room of mirrors 04.Chaotic dream 05.Tears of Christ
Another great Punk/HC moment from the Pula`s history.I myself don`t know much about them,but I suppose members of Mentalni nered were involved in this band.They lasted very short,but fortunately Vladimir kept this recording and contributed with it to this blog.The stuff here is very raw HC/Punk,and not actually a studio recording,but a rehearsal one,but very raw and sincere,just like my friend Kukatz like..
Tracks: 01.Danas 02.Zivot 03.Zakon 04.Luciferove trupe 05.Da li znas 06.Lost in space
This is a nice compilations of bands from Pula,exactly bands from the Garage Rock wave/mania/invasion at the end of the 80s.I bet Pula was the city with most garage rock bands in the world at that time.They are all on this cassette made by a HC fan from Rakalj,in the heart of Istria,mr. Geza.Enjoy this piece of Pula`s Rock history! A trivia about the title:a contingent of some 10 bands from Pula went by bus to Rijeka to a regional bands contest (called Gitarijada).Among them were Devastation,Messerschmitt (their very first show!!!),The Swindle,Sumrak Ideja,Ulicni Dzuboks,052..I had a tape recorder with me,to record the Devastation show,and some few,and the Messerschmitt too.The bands from Pula were totally discriminated and practicly all bands played early in the afternoon.We were pretty angry about it,and all our anger came out through Miro Kusacic (vox,guitar) brilliantly announcing that the Messerschmitt show,as well as the shows of all Pula bands that afternoon are part of a unity called Pula-London-Teheran (as opposite to the title of a compilation of bands from Rijeka entitled Rijeka-Paris-Texas).Also,the title is a parody of the legendary "This is Boston,not LA" compilation (the translation is This Is Pula,not Rijeka).
Tracks: SINOVI 01.Previse zvuka 02.7000 ljudi 03.Sestra MESSERSCHMITT 04.Keep a knocking 05.We`re the road crew 06.Today,today SPOONS 07.Louie Louie 08.Witch 09.Nobody but me F.M.D. 10.Fourth 11.Zoom pictures 12.Race to the moon WASHINGTONES 13.Have love will travel 14.Psycho 15.My generation GUBITNICI 16.Jako puno 17.Sam 18.Sebastijan
Terrorizer were a band that played very very fast Metal before it came widely accepted.This was a kind of supergroup,with members of Morbid Angel,Napalm Death and Nausea..If you don`t know who Terrorizer are..what are you waiting for??
Tracks: 01.Ripped to shreds 02.Corporation pull-in 03.After world obliteration 04.Human prey 05.Strategic warheads 06.Fallout 07.Infestation
Again some Anti-Otpad,a long time passed since their last post,so here it is another tape from this band extremely important for the history of the Pula`s underground scene.16 tracks of HC rage with an underground recording/production,but still powerful.You won`t miss this if you collect and enjoy HC Punk from these territories..
Tracks: 01.Sunce je brze 02.Jeo govna 03.Drzava 04.Dok ovdje sjedim 05.N.D.T.Z. 06.Think,feel,live 07.Normalan-nisam 08.Pas 09.Droga za sve 10.U mojoj glavi 11.Ekoloska 12.Hajde,reci mi 13.Mali covjek 14.In your neighbourhood 15.Barbara 16.Saljem S.O.S.
This is a nice Ep of a very young band made of 2 girls and a guy.They claim they play Punk Rock,if you ask me I wouldn`t go that far,there is a Punk Rock energy in this stuff,but it is not pure Punk Rock,even if I am gonna classify it as that.Anyway for a band in their years and at the beginning,very good stuff indeed. And the girlies really know to play..
This one is a tape I got from Maras (the red guitar in the pic!Well,not the guitar,the player!) in the days of our first contacts,and it consists of a studio side,and a live side containing a superb soundboard live recording.This is a tape that shows Drinking Skull thrashing the best way they did in their carreer.I still hope I will see again Maras,Hrvoje and the gang together on stage.Who knows..
Tracks: Studio side 01.He is here (intro)+Suicide society 02.Enliven the world 03.People that make you feel small 04.My evil 05.I`m going away Live side 06.Enliven the world 07.Church of hate 08.Create to destroy 09.People that make you feel small 10.End of life (suicide) 11.Breaking the law (Judas Priest cover) 12.Milk (S.O.D. cover)
I watched this band last December in their hometown Cakovec on a charity-gig
(I don`t want to make a mistake on it,but I think it was to help the Bakterije`s vocalist in his fight against leukaemia)..you should have seen the chaos during their show..they surely have a lot of fans in their town,but I felt that huge energy coming off the stage..It was a damn good show,and this short three tracker is as exciting as it was their show.If you`re into HC Punk,then you`ll be a fool to miss this one!!
Messerschmitt are a great garage rock band,but rockin very,I mean VERY hard.This is their first album,a rarity and almost unavailable,as the indie label Blind Dog Records disappeared very soon after this album,and there was only one edition pressing of it.So this is a great vinyl rip provided by Florijan.The production is pretty strong,with the vocal a bit low IMO,but just listen to the second song on the album,Haymaker,it reminds me of fast stuff from Motorhead`s Orgasmatron album.But this is not the only fast moment of the album,even most of the rest is some mid-tempo hard rockin.Recommended! PS:of course,Messerschmitt are from Pula..
Tracks: 01.Miss Jackie Daniels 02.Haymaker 03.Wept by Blues 04.Just one more time 05.Today 06.Dimples 07.Crossroads Blues 08.Plastic eyes 09.Jam session 10.Sittin on a B.S. 11.Route 66
Wooooooo..Municipal Waste live!!A perfect soundboard recording!!What do you want more??MW are unofficially the best Old-School Thrash Metal band in the world,and this is a live bootleg found on the net,but this is a real beauty.If you are into old school,man,this should be yours at once!!
Tracks: 01.untitled track 02.Waste `em all 03.Amusement park 04.Toxic revolution 05.I want to kill the president 06.Substitute creature 07.Mutants of war 08.Mountain wizard 09.Born to party 10.Slow death (The Accused cover) 11.Death ripper
Another great Metal hailing from Italy,I don`t know much about this new band,except that I like this demo,their very new,which is given for free download on the net.As I like to help band and promoting them through this blog,I am acting as an extended hand and helping them spreading their sound.Excellent recording,and excellent EP,with a very powerful cover of Sepultura`s Territory.
Tracks: 01.Choice 02.Wake up 03.Holy child 04.Leviathan 05.Territory (Sepultura cover)
Mel is really fast,man..one of my contributors really helps me with some material,and so here are Amen from Pozega,one of the Thrash Metal bands of the second wave,with their demo LSD (yes,as Nuclear Assault`s Live Suffer Die)..well,Amen here slowed down a bit,playing a slow paced Thrash Metal,pretty obscure.Anyway,a pearl of Croatian underground metal.
Tracks: 01.Union mind dead 02.Sense of life 03.Live suffer die 04.Hatred inside 05.Final destruction
This is something I owe to a guy here,this one is for Maro.This is the last album from Bruno Langer,bass/vocal and leader of Atomsko Skloniste,this time in its American reincernation.In te 80s Atomsko Skloniste had few tries in the States,all of them through a guy from Pula who actually works in NASA.I will also post the other two albums,but I do this for Maro.This album is just old AS songs rearranged and rewritten in English,I am not fan of this album,but this one is also for all the collectors to complete your AS collection. PS:The video is by the actual Croatian AS version.
Tracks: 01.Chinese bike 02.Believe me 03.Together 04.This spaceship 05.Night after night 06.I learned how to listen 07.1945-1995 08.Flying 09.Nothing left to show 10.We are the generation 11.Cocaine baby 12.Tajna (Secret) (Original) 13.Together II 14.Believe me II 15.Automated man
Wow,that`s what I call Thrash!Ok,some of you will find it too melodic,but if you ask me,these guys here becomed undoubtely my favourite Serbian band the very moment I heard them for the first time.An excellent album with great songs,high pitched voice and great production.That is what I like.I hope the guys are as good on stage as they are here on this album...Oooops,and here is a video proving that!!
Tracks: 01.MCMXCIX 02.Bombs away 03.Overkill 04.Deceitful eyes 05.The one 06.Afterlife 07.Death from below 08.Operaphobia 09.Merciful angel 10.Space eater
There was already one post about those Serbian thrashers,their highly acclaimed first mini-LP Toxic Death.This is their first full length album,and is pretty much a change from the mini-LP.Here they have a cleaner production,yet strange,and they added keyboards.A step forward anyway.For fans of Technical Death/Thrash Metal.
Tracks: 01.Traumatic memories 02.Pathological alternative 03.Monstruous childhood 04.Brutal reality 05.Psychopatic mind 06.Virus 07.Impulsive hate 08.Degeneracy 09.Brutal reality (re-mix)
For fans of Doom Metal,here is the best band in Croatia,pretty much known and succesful outside our borders.This one is a perfect soundboard recording of a gig played in my lovely Pula in the summer 2002.,when I still lived there (I left Pula in October that year).I was not at that gig,but I am very glad that I found this recording on the net.The band is,of course,great and this is a very enjoyable live recording.
Tracks: 01.Miles of worn out days+Amber star 02.Fire 03.Hurt 04.Your divinity 05.Passage back to life 06.In vain 07.Ready to cry 08.Free 09.The planets 10.Every me,every you (Placebo cover)
TWO VERY VERY OLD WARRIORS...........All the demos of this band in the first phase (where I played drums) are posted here,as well as few live shows..Now,this is the second album of the reincarnation of this band,after the first line-up fell apart.Now Todor have a band of great young guys with him,and recently my brother Chriss sat by the drums.This album is released in 2004,and is a really fine Punk Rock record,greatly produced and greatly played.I really don`t have to add anything to it,just take this one,if you are a classic Punk fan.
Tracks: 01.Autoriteti 02.Ne bojim se 03.Ne kradi nas 04.Ona odlazi 05.Ovo je kraj 06.Punk`s not dead 07.Shizophrenia 08.Slobodan 09.Snovi 10.Vjernik 11.Zombi
Yeah,this was an incredible combination,the weirdness of Franci Blaskovic and the Punk energy of Croatia`s finest KUD Idijoti.This CD is really a great Punk Rock stuff,and I am putting it here to celebrate Franci as the Istrian musical guru`,which without the slightest problem said literally "FUCK OFF" to the Zlatna Koogla (an organisation which gives awards for musical achievements every year) as they wanted to give him an award for his life achievements in music.This guy simply rules.Enjoy this one.
Tracks: 01.Herceg-Istra (narodna) 02.Vita,vita,stampa nasa gori bre(Turbo cattolico-peste Balcanica) 03.Maestro guli-lili (apa-li Rundov) 04.La ricetta - Grisia 1993 05.Cakavska pes`n eli rdeca pizda z radija merde 06.Cesta ud mora da Botanico a Gortanico 07.Festival diteta Sibenik 1994 08.Herceg-Istra (repriza)
Woooow,I found this recording on the net,a nice soundboard recording of a gig from the beginnings of Carnivore,the pre-album era.The sound is pretty good,considering that it is recorded in 1984.The tracks played here are just as on their demo,not that fast but really powerful.And here we got also a very interesting slow version of God Is Dead.I adore Carnivore,so all I can say about this live is grab it at once,this is definitely worth downloading!!
Tracks: 01.Carnivore 02.Cry wolf 03.God is dead 04.Male supremacy 05.World wars III and IV
I was watching some videos of gigs I organized when I lived in Pula back in the 90s,and I wanted to show you pieces of those gigs.There were not that much gigs,and I don`t have videos for all of them (I miss the Anti-Nowhere League video,as well as the Sickening Gore one),but I hope you will enjoy these here. I will try to put them here chronologically,as I am not sure myself of the exact dates.
The first and surely the biggest was the Carcass gig in Pula,the 5th of May 1992.Carcass were the first bigger international band to visit Croatia after the proclamation of independence.They were very brave to come to Pula,as the war was raging at some 150 km air-distance from Pula.The gig was held at the terrace of the touristic village Verudela in the Pula suburbs.The bill was Hatross (Pula),Cenotaph (Trieste,Italy) and Carcass.
Here is a piece of Cenotaph;
and the unforgettable Carcass;
After that,I think the first great band that came to Pula was Disharmonic Orchestra.They played at the Powerfest 93 Metal festival as headliners,the 1st of May of 1993.They gave us a great show,playing after 8 Croatian,1 Italian and one slovenian band.
This was the beginning of their show:
Next was also a great Metal package;Pula was one of the cities visited by a great tour by Nuclear Blast/Earache recording artists,Macabre,Brutal Truth and Pungent Stench.We were pretty lucky to have this package at home,because the gig in Florence Italy was cancelled,and we jumped in (on the tour shirts,by the date 2nd June 1994 is written Florence).Pungent Stench were very popular in Pula at the time,and this was the third try to take them there.
The gig started off with Macabre,a band we also liked a lot at the time,and Serial Killer was one of the most favourite tune I played on the DJ nights (I was also the DJ in the club then).You can see the reaction of the crowd..
After them came Brutal Truth.See what a blast was their beginning of the show!
Wow..and then,finally,Pungent Stench came out and did a really fucking great show!Hear Cochino starting Klyster Boogie in Croatian!
The next gig,as far as I remember,was the Fleshcrawl gig.They played just a day after I arranged the gig,so there was just some 20 of us in the audience.
A very strange gig,but powerful:
Just few days after that,we had another nice package,this time a HC/Punk one,with three bands;the german Growing Movement (not bad,but don`t have a video uploaded) , and the americans Ignite and Slapshot.Even Slapshot were a bigger and known band at that moment,Ignite had all our sympathies.
Here is a piece of Ignite;
and a piece of Slapshot too;
That year,1994,was a very good year for gigs;the last bigger show we had was the legendary MDC.They were supported by Fifteen,but I didn`t uploaded their video.Instead,watch MDC in a blasting Chicken Squawk.MDC did a show in front of over a thousand people going totally insane,there were people jumping off the PA,even Dave Dictor told them to cool off,that somebody might get hurt.
Check this out;
I hope you liked this stuff!
And now...
...to end this pretentious post,here is a video from a show that wasn`t mine,Hamo of Headbanger did it;
Another new and pretty young Croatian Metal band,great (modern) Thrash Metal,I received great reviews of their live performances,and I can only add that this is a very powerful recording,and that this band surely have a bright future..Meanwhile,while we wait the first full cd,enjoy this nice demo!!Recommended!
