Tag Archives: crust

(movie) THE WAY OF METALLIST PROVIDES A NICE PICTURE OF EXTREME MUSIC AND CZECH SCENE THROUGH MALIGNANT TUMOUR!

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Wow! I heard of this documentary a while ago, but never saw it until now. This Czech movie is about student who gets an assignment to make a study about metal and he then finds about the band called Malignant Tumour who have been playing since 1991., the movie was made in 2016.so it was 25 years they played back then. This movie is about the band, but also about discovering metal and punk hardcore scene, underground, which becomes eternal love for the main protagonist through going to gigs, hanging out, even becoming friends with the band. It also provides a fine picture of the band, since their extreme grindcore beginnings, to nowadays they provide hell of a show with their mixture of crust punk and roll. Their charismatic frontman Bilos and the rest of the band speak about the band and the past also present themselves, but also lot of extreme underground music legends talk about the band in the movie. I almost choked laughing in the part of the movie where band gets Czech music award for the best hard and heavy band, you should see that and also I would recommend this movie, I am not total fan of the band. Great one!

(review) Handjar-Live in Svora

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Handjar are from Saint Petersburg, Russia. There are 5 songs on this release, recorded live in Svora Space. This is a short one. 5 songs each in about minute time, delivering hellburst of raw hardcore punk, yet with some melody underneath it all, delivering crushing apocalyptic d beat with some almost grindy stuff here and there. The lyrics are in Russian language, so I don`t really understand them, but Instinkt is my favorite among these five songs, being somehow the most energetic and epic. This is a good one. It is on Bandcamp, it is for pay as much you want, so go get it and support the scene.

https://handjar.bandcamp.com/releases

(review) Disbaja-Prošlost sadašnjosti/History of now

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Here is the third album by Disbaja, band nominally from Zagreb, Croatia, although I think none of the current line-up originates from there, but that really doesn`t matter, does it?

Recorded again at studio Depth, this record contains 12 songs, two being kind of intro and outro with lyrics in Croatian language. For those who don˙t know, Disbaja plays hardcore punk with thrash and d-beat thrown in for good measure and thus creating one very dark, almost thing you can feel and touch. The lyrics are inner, personal, but having that political balance and touch if you read between the lines of personal. Kinda like watching the current state of Croatia and the world from your inner self. I love faster songs like Bježi si s puta, but slower, sludgy ones are really outstanding gems on this record, songs like Matrica or Propast(Moj je spas) with epic beginning turning into blistering fast d-beat, which shows the true playing strength of this band and how tight they became in musicianship and songwriting during the years. This is definitely Disbaja˙s best work yet.

https://realmofdisbaja.bandcamp.com/