Epizod (BUL): Molete Se Tape 1992 + Demo 1990

[jnfernal]

some good classic metal with variable voice (from mercyful Fate-like to death style):

Here you can find their "Molete Se" Tape 1992 + a tape with Demo and Live Recordings from 1990:


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MPW5RSXN


Does anyone have the following bands from Bulgaria:

-Bedstven Rajon/Disaster Area
-Corpse: Horrible existence Demo 1992
-Kozirog
-Odesos

[Stormspell]

I have KOZIROG rehearsal tape, but the quality is atrocious not worth digitalising for sure. Unfortunately this is the only copy known to be in existence (given to me by their guitar player).

Moni "The Gun" later formed ELECTRIC SHOCK - you should look for their Die With Emotion tape, it is amazing thrash. One of the best Bulgarian thrash bands on par with SPLEEN and CRASH.

I dont know if Odesos had anything recorded except for some live tunes from the 1987 Rock Festival in Varna which were broadcast on the radio. The real gem to find from that festival was HADES, which was a thrash spin-off of the cult punk-rock band LUCIFER. I'll see if I can dig some ghastly songs from that festival.

5-ta Invalidna Brigada were an okay Sepultura wanna-bes, but nothing really spectacular.

CORPSE is a grindcore. The guy who released them (and who is the editor in chief of Brutallica magazine by the way) was student in the same university with me and I remember him giving tons of those CORPSE demos around. I never cared obtaining one, not my thing.

I think I shall upload something one of these days.

[jnfernal]

Eh, I have a lot of bulgarian metal/thrash/punk/hc, I am trading with a cool guy overthere.

I got bands such as 5ta Invalidna Brigada, Taran, Trizubec (a cool mix of thrash and punk), Spleen/Splin (a demo recording, not bad), Ahat (a lot of live recordings and unreleased stuff, I like their CD very much), Detonator, almost every tape of Exhumator, Leprosy (their only demo 1992), boring stuff such as Monolith and Orion/Milena, Nightmare, Nekrolog...the funny thing is that some of them are not even listed on the metal-archives (Leprosy, for example) and I don't know exactly their biograhpies or stories as bulgarian is not exactly my mother tongue.

Yes, I got also the Electric Shock album, that is good, though my favourite bulgarian band is always Era

But I would be interested in Kozirog and the Rock Festival in Varna 1987.

Do you have more informations about Lucifer? I never heard of them and even Ivailo of A.O.N. records do not mention them in his overview of beginning of rock music in Bulgaria

[Stormspell]

SPLEEN is not a demo, it was a tape album with songs going back to their roots in the 80s when they were called PROLET. Shortly after the album Erol decided they are not thrash band anymore and thus changed name to WICKEDA and made huge commercial success playing party-rock.

Ivailo Tonchev/A.O.N. knows LUCIFER quite well. In fact it was him who gave me the Varna Rock Fest recordings, which I'm pretty sure are on one of the bazillion unlabeled CDRs I have lying around

LUCIFER were from Varna city and played dark wave laced with punk. If you think Milena and REVIU were boring then you probably wont like LUCIFER too.

[jnfernal]

Oh well I listened again to Milena and Reviu just tonight, after a long time

As for Reviu I got only the tape "IV88-V95" and a Live and, well, they're not so bad (I like that cold wave/dark/post punk/gothic mix) but the female singer does not convince me at all. It's not boring but the girl sings in a too "flat way", too much punk and I never liked girls singing punk...much better the male singer. It's nothing particularly new, typical "dark/post punk" riffing, but it's a honest tape with good ideas and energy. Seems that this kind of music was pretty successful at the time, with big bands like Nova Generacja, for example

As for Milena: I got the "Reservachiya" Ep that sucks very bad, and also the "Skandal" Lp/Tape is pretty bad. There are just a couple of songs ("Tupota" and "Oh" that should have been a sort of hit song at the time) that are notable. The rest is pretty commercial and lame, thus there are a couple of fast tunes, but in general it sounds very commercial.

On the contrary the "Ha Ha" Tape (with Orion members, if I am not wrong) is much better than what I remembered. Well, it has alternate moments (too many "experimental" songs that are just musical nonsenses and some commercial songs, though not as many as the 2nd Lp) but also 3-4 great songs (Meat, Opulent Life that has that nice "russian" feeling, "Why" that is almost dark in the 2nd part, "Heaven" that alternate speed parts with a nice folk riff) but, in general it seems too much overloaded of different styles that do not mix perfectly in every song. But, for sure, "Ha Ha" deserves a more deep listening, it's complex and full of different influences/styles.

Seems that she appeared as special guest at the (in)famous San Remo Festival in Italy...I couldn't believe that a bulgarian rock singer could join the most famous festival for italian songs as a special guest...hope to find a recording of the night!

By the way: my favourite bulgarian band are Kokosha Glava (I got 4 tapes of them and "Day si surgeto" is my favourite song), Ahat and Era

[Stormspell]

REVIU and NOVA GENERACIA are totally cult bands only Bulgarians can appreciate coz they are all about the lyrics. At the time they were released, just shortly before the fall of the Communism those lyrics were totally rebellious and open-minded which made the Militia to pull the plug at their shows and cause mini-riots. We grew up with those songs and they still held true and mean a lot to some of us.

Ha-Ha was never released with Orion. It was recorded with ERA instead. Here is the entire story:

Milena was the primadonna of Bulgarian metal. She got widely known as singer for the cult band REVIU. After the demise of Reviu at 1989 (she and the other lider in Review - Vassil Giurov got in fight and that unfortunately broke the band...) Milena hired the band ORION to record her solo album. They rehearsed and wrote pretty much what would be this LP. However, they couldnt record it, as prior recording Milena got invited to San Remo and then decided to go on German tour. The tour turned a disaster though, as the band spontaneously decided to immigrate and one evening quietly departed, leaving Milena peacefully sleeping in her motel room somewhere in Germany... she also took the opportunity and didnt return in Bulgaria for some time.
When she returned (in 1990) she went to ERA and asked them to help her with recording the album. Adrian (Orion keyboardist) already had returned before her and was playing with ERA, so he helped the band to learn the songs. Finally, at the end of 1990 "Ha-Ha" was finally released. Even though, they used the arrangements ORION had made, Milena comfortably "forgot" to credit them, no doubt still pissed for the ruined tour.
"Ha-Ha" was released on MC, with a very small private LP deal cut with Balkanton records (300-500 copies most probably, unconfirmed as Adrian couldnt remember the exact number) which never made it to the general public, making this LP virtually impossible to find, a mythical release.

Four years later Milena re-recorded the album with her own band and finally released it on CD in 1994 (long time out of print and hard to find too!). Needless to say she again didnt credit neither Orion or Era .

Scans from the LP:

[steelangel]

Thank you for the EPIZOD Tape from 1990