A friend of mine, a gituar player, had a couple tours over Europe, works on many projects, even as musician, even as mastering engineer/studio guy told me once, when we hit the subject about The Rock (yes every genre where electric guitar is essential from Punk or Metal to Blues and Jazz music in our town Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegowina. One that really knows what he talks about.
And his statement about "current local scene" is valid in so much aspects.
I'll paraphrase it: "Look Datzee, in this town only thing that is working, in rock scene here is: those so-called bands that play your top 40 every night in different clubs. When we talk about bands who play their own songs, and maybe release a demo, or now whole albums, well situation is this on the other side it seems that almost every Punk band that has quality sounds like they do not listen to anything except The Exploited, they stayed for the generations in that sound - like the greatest musical masterpiece is Beat The Bastards or the last great thing that happened to humanity was their 1983 Let's Start The War. But on the other side, the only genre, the scene that mutates, that keep non stop evolving is Heavy Metal, and the guys with their sub-genres and minor numbers of fights and lost friendships over the best band!!! Man I can right now count five (he counted ten actually) bands that if they lasted longer, or could release another album, they will be playing all over Europe right now. I'm not Metal-head (he isn't!!!), but generation, after generation, you can hear progress and experiments with the sound, with the music, I don't know why is that, but there is something in these waters - that is perfect to play Metal...", we will stop here.
And this is the reason why I'm doing review of Balkanian - Barbaric - Black - Metal band Zvijer (The Beast), also trying to find the reson why they have so much energie/sympathy/love/blood towards their music and scene. Ok maybe I shouldn't answer that question... it will reveal itself somewhere.
First of all, they surprised me, they gave me the tape, with nice booklet inside, but tape... common, we all know that Metal scene growed larger, and larger through the world-wide tape trades. And also in Metal 80's hey-day tapes were the medium were bands release their own demos and albums. Records sounds great, but sound of Heavy Metal music is perfect for the tape. So here is another plus for this release. But also you can hear them on bandcamp. Even if they preffer and love their Slavic Paganism, they also have songs on english.
So they begin with U Gnjilu Postojanja Covjeka like industrial drone, and then there is fist in the mouth: Hereticall Balkanian Sabbathism, five minutes of blastbeats and screams, just like every good Black Metal album should have. Then the track U Crnom Grobu... Svijet, first thespoken word intro a-la Balsac gave us poetical and artfully - the process of decompossed bodies, and then kick with the boot in stomach again with the blastbeat, but also the break where you can hear quit good riff, you weren't aware of it, maybe it is my perception of the whole atmosphere. Also want to mention the track (who knows maybe hit single) called Divljina so check it down below:
Yes i can explain, and i guess that my dear readers, you too understand the artform. Those lyrics are about death and gore, lies and deceptions, but it can also be even metaphor, or even Zvijer want you to think about banality of unusefull living and spending lifetime like it is something you take for granted. You need to wake up, live life to the fullest, and as Carlos Castaneda wrote something like "When Death decide to come for you, she have to wait to hear your story, and the warrior dance his life, describeing everything he did", so you have to live to the fullest, to really fullfil your life with things you love to do, to live proactive and positive to yourself, "and if you manage to live like that, Death will have to wait more, until you are done. Also tell me... is there funnier thing, then watching Grim Reaper, when suddenly he sits and said something like: "Here is another one, better sit down and listen this one, I hope he will finish this quick."
So Zvijer simply growls and scream: Go out, live life, give your full commitment, everything else is just a illusion, a-marry-go-around amusment park.
And another one... see, there is a quality Heavy Metal music in, like one of the "most powerfull man in the World said" in shithole countries.
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