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(MOVIE) oBSCENE EXTREME CURBY-THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF OBSCENE EXTREME

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Obscene Extreme Festival takes place in Trutnov, Czech Republic, for more than 20 years now. It started as a birthday bash party for one man, namely Curby, the man responsible for the organization of one of the best extreme music festivals in the world. This is a festival which has grindcore in the front and some crust and death metal added for good measure here and there in the line-up. Also, the festival grew big from one small diy festival every year, but still retaining that diy spirit and all visitors being one big happy family, how they say, freak friendly family. Through interviews with Curby himself, many band members and Curby˙s friends, from Bilos(Malignant Tumour), Jan(Agathocles), Barney (Napalm Death) and so on, we find out the amazing strength of will to keep the festival alive, beginnings in tape trading and sending letters vie post service, going to gigs, making friendships, still remaining fair priced vegan and extreme music freak friendly festival. I love the part when Curby explains how all members of this family work in Obscene Extreme, handling merch, helping and how every citizen of Trutnov got used and made friends with bunch of so called freaks and free people from around the world. I was never there, but after seeing this inspiring awesome documentary I might just go there.

(fanzine)Beta Vulgaris #12 is one of the best fanzines in Croatia.

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Although this is a webzine, I used to do lots of fanzines back in the nineties and early 2000s from No Faith, Domination of Darkness…It is so nice to see that there are still physical copies of fanzines here in Croatian scene, which is my homeland scene. This zine is coming from south of Croatia, namely beautiful Split. What first comes to mind is that the zine is pretty big, many pages, with lots of stuff to read. I was instantly reminded of excellent zine from Croatia called In medias res that was really something back in the days. This zine is in Croatian language, so if you don˙t understand, too bad, maybe you can find someone who can translate a bit to you or something. There are columns, interview with Parole 80, features about anarchosindicalism, antifascism from Split area, some more feature, poetry, feature on Brigada Flores Magon and much, much more. As you can see, this is not zine focused only on music, but also on political side of things in punk, being nice because not many zines do that nowadays. It is lots of reading material for little money or exchange so write: bvulgaris@riseup.net

 

(record review)ARCH ENEMY-“Will To Power”(Century Media records)

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Wow! We are already at the tenth studio album made by this excellent melodic death trash metal Sweden based band. This is the first album after lineup change with new guitar player Jeff Loomis aboard. The album contains 12 songs. After the intro “Set Flame TO The Night” when the opener “The Race” was playing I noticed how much raw energy combined with melodic guitar hooks can this band provide. The concept of Arch Enemy songwriting has not changed, and why should it? One of the highlights of the album for sure is “The World Is Yours” with brutal but also anthemic chorus. What surprised me the most is clean singing on “Reason To Believe”, first in bands history and it sounds great. Alissa is really excellent vocalist, she proved that when she was still in her former band. Lyrically, this band always made dark but good, fighting and uplifting lyrics that made me full of strength. Summary:this album is no better than its predecessor, but it is also not worse, so they kept the same level and I loved it.

8/10

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