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Polish Legions & Enemies
Good topic! At least I think so cuz it has wide meaning. We can just mention bands that we find as a metalcore or we can throw some more lines about our experiences with some bands than may not be called metalcore ones by others
Enough with this crap, lemme go straight to the point! I must say that I have not read previous posts in that topic, just typed my feelings about metalcore bands but I hope my post will not make any mess in here
So, I guess the first metalcore band that I have learned was BIOHAZARD back in 1992. I saw Punishment video on HBall and it really kicked my ass! I bought their Urban Discipline tape, of cuz illegal one, and going back home I met a guy who was kinda local legend cuz he had an access to all kinds of alternative music back in the 80`s, had lots of friends in western EU that were sending him any CD he wanted I asked him, if he heard Biohazard and he smiled at me and asked if I wanted to have a copy of their debut, so I knew that he is the guy cuz this LP wasnt available here in Poland at the time. The Needle told me that he met Billy somewhere in Holland at their common friend`s party shortly before Biohazard released self titled album and since that time the have been mailing each other. He was the guy, not only to myself!
Some say Bio is HC band but there`s been lots of influences that made their music not so pure as HC itself, many HC bands from NYC said that Bio is HC only with their attitude and I agree with that.
Back I 1994 when they put their SOTWA album, which still is their biggest success, Biohazard gained a peak of their popularity here in PL. When they announced 2 gigs in PL back in August `94, the Warsaw`s one was sold out in almost 200% cuz there was fake tickets and venue for 2000 ppl was fulfilled with almost 3500 Biohazard fans! Of cuz gig was awesome, afterwards the whole band spend about 2 hours outside with their fans, mostly singing along the songs they didnt play live. But the best thing took place before the gig, in the morning. After bands arrival Bobby Hambel, the best guitar player among dancers and the best dancer among guitar players, decided to go out to visit Warsaw. What did he do? He just got on city bus and asked some young people going to school to show him the city, so they did. And Bobby came back to venue with the bunch of teenagers.
Biohazard came back to Poland twice, and 2 or 3 their gigs that was planed were cancelled. If they play here again of cuz I will be the first one to go to!
In the beginning of the 90`s there was a boom for HC/metal here in PL and many bands played for Polish fans for several times, like Pro-Pain, Dog Eat Dog, Madball, SOIA, Merauder but the very special band to me and for many Polish fans is LIFE OF AGONY. They visited Poland 3 times but the best gig to me was their first one. BTW, last week I celebrated 10th anniversary of going to my first concert of a band from abroad. It was LOA.
Exactly 10 years ago LOA played their last gig on their first EU tour ever. Warsaw, Poland. Freezing cold, band thinking of anything else but going back home. But they had to play one last show on that tour with ProPain and Spudmonsters. I bet they didnt know what was going to happen when they were about to go on stage
2000 people that came exactly for the band that put their debut album 4 months before 2000 people that exploded since first tunes of Respect 2000 people that were singing along with Keith through the whole 40 minutes 2000 people that were going crazy along with Joey, Alan, Keith and Sal through the whole gig 2000 people that came brought smile on LOA faces and those smiles were lasting through the whole gig 2000 people that had their hottest and most emotional gig in their whole lifetimes 2000 people that made those 4 New Yorkers feel like this gig never came to its end 2000 people that wanted to have LOA each time they were in EU 2000 people that made LOA having Poland included in their tour schedule 2000 people that made LOA come to Poland twice in 1996 2000 people that still remember and has been waiting for LOA in Poland this year 2000 people for whose Life Of Agony has been a cult-band since they started playing their one of a kind music
It was my first gig I have ever attended to, and I exactly knew what I was going there for, and afterwards I knew exactly that there was no better way to feel music than live.
And I must admit, that Keith Caputo is my fav singer!
Nowadays, the most impressive metalcore band to me is: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE full of great old school, almost thrash riffs and melodies, both singers are very flexible They played an awesome gig in Warsaw, fall 2002, are very cool and DTE guys Their video MLS has been most often on the top of weekly VivaRock charts for 15 months!
Guys, check out our Polish metalcore band HEDFIRST www.hedfirst.com that opened for TestAmenT in Warsaw last year, their album is available in US, soon they will put out their sophomore LP. And they have great photographer, who`s father of metalheads twins
Enough with this crap, lemme go straight to the point! I must say that I have not read previous posts in that topic, just typed my feelings about metalcore bands but I hope my post will not make any mess in here
So, I guess the first metalcore band that I have learned was BIOHAZARD back in 1992. I saw Punishment video on HBall and it really kicked my ass! I bought their Urban Discipline tape, of cuz illegal one, and going back home I met a guy who was kinda local legend cuz he had an access to all kinds of alternative music back in the 80`s, had lots of friends in western EU that were sending him any CD he wanted I asked him, if he heard Biohazard and he smiled at me and asked if I wanted to have a copy of their debut, so I knew that he is the guy cuz this LP wasnt available here in Poland at the time. The Needle told me that he met Billy somewhere in Holland at their common friend`s party shortly before Biohazard released self titled album and since that time the have been mailing each other. He was the guy, not only to myself!
Some say Bio is HC band but there`s been lots of influences that made their music not so pure as HC itself, many HC bands from NYC said that Bio is HC only with their attitude and I agree with that.
Back I 1994 when they put their SOTWA album, which still is their biggest success, Biohazard gained a peak of their popularity here in PL. When they announced 2 gigs in PL back in August `94, the Warsaw`s one was sold out in almost 200% cuz there was fake tickets and venue for 2000 ppl was fulfilled with almost 3500 Biohazard fans! Of cuz gig was awesome, afterwards the whole band spend about 2 hours outside with their fans, mostly singing along the songs they didnt play live. But the best thing took place before the gig, in the morning. After bands arrival Bobby Hambel, the best guitar player among dancers and the best dancer among guitar players, decided to go out to visit Warsaw. What did he do? He just got on city bus and asked some young people going to school to show him the city, so they did. And Bobby came back to venue with the bunch of teenagers.
Biohazard came back to Poland twice, and 2 or 3 their gigs that was planed were cancelled. If they play here again of cuz I will be the first one to go to!
In the beginning of the 90`s there was a boom for HC/metal here in PL and many bands played for Polish fans for several times, like Pro-Pain, Dog Eat Dog, Madball, SOIA, Merauder but the very special band to me and for many Polish fans is LIFE OF AGONY. They visited Poland 3 times but the best gig to me was their first one. BTW, last week I celebrated 10th anniversary of going to my first concert of a band from abroad. It was LOA.
Exactly 10 years ago LOA played their last gig on their first EU tour ever. Warsaw, Poland. Freezing cold, band thinking of anything else but going back home. But they had to play one last show on that tour with ProPain and Spudmonsters. I bet they didnt know what was going to happen when they were about to go on stage
2000 people that came exactly for the band that put their debut album 4 months before 2000 people that exploded since first tunes of Respect 2000 people that were singing along with Keith through the whole 40 minutes 2000 people that were going crazy along with Joey, Alan, Keith and Sal through the whole gig 2000 people that came brought smile on LOA faces and those smiles were lasting through the whole gig 2000 people that had their hottest and most emotional gig in their whole lifetimes 2000 people that made those 4 New Yorkers feel like this gig never came to its end 2000 people that wanted to have LOA each time they were in EU 2000 people that made LOA having Poland included in their tour schedule 2000 people that made LOA come to Poland twice in 1996 2000 people that still remember and has been waiting for LOA in Poland this year 2000 people for whose Life Of Agony has been a cult-band since they started playing their one of a kind music
It was my first gig I have ever attended to, and I exactly knew what I was going there for, and afterwards I knew exactly that there was no better way to feel music than live.
And I must admit, that Keith Caputo is my fav singer!
Nowadays, the most impressive metalcore band to me is: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE full of great old school, almost thrash riffs and melodies, both singers are very flexible They played an awesome gig in Warsaw, fall 2002, are very cool and DTE guys Their video MLS has been most often on the top of weekly VivaRock charts for 15 months!
Guys, check out our Polish metalcore band HEDFIRST www.hedfirst.com that opened for TestAmenT in Warsaw last year, their album is available in US, soon they will put out their sophomore LP. And they have great photographer, who`s father of metalheads twins
