THE CZECH REPUBLIC SEEMS TO HAVE A REALLY GOOD SCENE. WHO ARE SOME OF THE BETTER BANDS, LABELS, ZINES, ETC...? I don't agree with you so much, I don't think that our scene is generally so strong, as some people says, but it is true that we can offer to the world some few excellent & surprising bands... First of all, Czech Republic= country of sick & brrrrrutal Death/Grind. Some of them are technically perfect with fine ideas & musicianship. I can suggest for example LANIENA MENTIS, INTERVALLE BIZZARE, ALIENATION MENTAL or IMPERIAL FOETICIDE. But the majority of the bands playing this genre here are a little bit boring & stereotypical. Also here (mainly in the eastern part of the country) is a home of sleepy Doom Metal. I don't like the stereotypes & the way how so many bands here play (and copy) the slow Doom or the brutal Death/Grind, so I am glad to play in DEMIMONDE, a band that doesn't sound like a Czech band. (haha) To play a really original & worthy music, without copying anyone other, was our main focus when creating the band. Yes, it is true, that some of the Czech bands offer some strange & unique atmosphere. But this is really a minority; believe me. the rest play a very standard & monotonous music. I hope we reached just with our first material the catagory of the more original & different bands, out of the Czech average; this was always our primary goal. And the second material "MUTANT STAR" was mentioned in tons of reviews as "one of the most creative, experimental & innovative stuff coming from the Czech scene". Me, personally, i am not really happy when DEMIMONDE is compared with the Czech scene, because in my opinion there were always only around 10 original & worth bands here, in time when we recorded both our materials. Haha. I can suggest some few bands from here, who are out of stereotypes, namely FORGOTTEN SILENCE (Jazz-Thrash-Death-Doom fusion), CONTRASTIC (elektro-Grind-HC-Alternative), LIVORES MORTIS (cold dark atmospherical Metal), THE RAYS OF THE SUN (Alternative Doom), VUVR (technical Jazz Death Artrock) etc. These are some fine examples of the few Czech bands that i really like & appreciate... We don't have any big Metal label here, but some smaller who release sometimes some interesting stuff (REDBALCK PROD., SHINDY PROD., EPIDEMIE REC., OBSCENE PROD., etc.)
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Recenze na Livores Mortis "Moonfrost" 96:
Turnovská kapela Livores Mortis mě už oslovila jejich hudbou na koncertech, a proto jsem se dost těšil na jejich první demo s názvem Moonfrost. A nezklamali mě - je to super. Hudba je dost propracovaná, plná melodických zvratů a libých melodií Jsou zde skvělý až heavy kytary. Zpěv je v češtině, což velice podporuju (jen v ní vydržte a nepodléhejte anglo-trendu). Pěvecké party jsou zdařilým soubojem mezi Dušanem a místy až moc rozklepaně jemným hláskem Radky. Hitovkou je pro mě skladba Propast snění. A obal? Ten předčí všechny origošky a dema, co jsou k mání. Opravdu něco nevídaného. Vše podtrhuje vynikající zvuk studia Spin z Liberce.
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