[ SEE YOU IN HELL ]

Interview from URBAN GUERILLA ZINE issue 15

Hi dudes, what’s up? Let’s go to thrash hell!!

Could you introduce your well-know band to me and also to kids, who will read this zine? Tell me more about members of SEE YOU IN HELL. Tell us story of your band, few words about your releases etc.
Fuck… I never did an interview with a guy from Czech Rep. in English language for an American zine… it’s kind of weird, you know. But anyway… At first I don’t consider our band to be so “well-known”. We release our records on pretty small DIY labels and so far played {w/only very few exceptions} pretty small shows exclusively. We got invited to play w/D.R.I. in Prague 2 years ago, but in the end it didn’t happened and honestly if asked ever again, we would say “no” immediately and the same goes for bigger fests like Obscene Extreme and Fluff Fest {we played both in the past} – we feel it’s not a good environment for cool hardcore/punk show and we find both events quite megalomaniac and boring. Bring the hardcore back to cellars, garages and living rooms!
SEE YOU IN HELL started back in 1999 with an intention to play fast and raw hardcore w/political + in the same time personal lyrics. Through all these years our music changed quite a lot and today it’s more crusty influenced, which has lot to do w/having the new drummer since mid of 2002. He is called Beno {pronounced “Benyo”}, he used to play in some pretty cool bands here in early/mid 90’s like LOS SOMMROS {they were even supposed to release split 7” w/DISCLOSE, but it never happened} and NO PASARAN. He’s 31 years old, has two daughters and he’s by far the best crust drummer in this city. Tom plays bass, he is I guess 26, drinks amazing amounts of alcohol, sometimes he together w/his father demolish their local village pub… no other hobbies I guess. Jozka {aka Joseph} sings, he is almost 30 years old, also has a 7 year old daughter, crazy vinyl collector, militant atheist, columnist for HLUBOKA ORBA zine, has label called Satans Punk… And I am 29, I will become a father in April 2004, I play guitar, before SYIH I used to play in MRTVA BUDOUCNOST {1994-2000}, since 93 I do the HLUBOKA ORBA zine and together w/Jozka and Mirek {vocals in FESTA DESPERATO} we do shows under the “United Crusties” trademark here in Brno. I guess this sums it up.
Releases: demo 2000, split 7” w/MINDLOCK {2001}, full 7” {2002}, split 7” w/THE PUBLIC {2003}, split tape w/HOMO CONSUMENS {2003} + we are on bunch of compilations {“Babaric Thrash” on 625, “Sekec Mazec” comp. 7” + we wait for like 3-4 other to be finally released, including the “Tribute to NEGATIVE FX” which should be released by RUIDOs singer}. We plan to release a full LP in mid of 2004 in collaboration of Insane Society and Ultima Ratio Records here in Czech + maybe some foreign label{s} from the abroad.

I think that you returned from European tour with GRIDE (grindcore gods from Czech) together. Tell us more about it. Have you got any problems with promoters, kids at gigs, police, w/searching the gig places etc.?? Yeah... Could you recommend few cool gig places for bands, which would like to visit Europe? I have heard that very cool gigs are in squats in Holland and also in Germany. Tell me your opinion about this thing.
This was by far the best tour I ever did. Everything worked out amazingly well. We were especially shocked by gigs in France which all went extremely well. Playing in Bordeaux in completely overcrowded place, hanging out w/people from OPSTAND, JEAN SEBERG or FACE UP TO IT, playing in Montbrison for pretty crazy crowd at the show organized by VOMIT FOR BREAKFAST guys and having the long table served full of delicious food {the dinner itself have cost something like 150 USD!}, playing in Dijon at 3:00 in early morning to few dozens crazy punx going wild… it was all really awesome. We didn‘t expected so good reactions. We also played in Spain, which went good, in Italy {the first 2 shows were huge, w/like 200-300 people in the attendance}, Slovenija, Germany, Austria and the first date was here in Brno together w/BORN DEAD ICONS. Some of the cool bands we played with were MASSGENOCIDE PROCESS {Cz}, ANTIHERO {Sp}, 21 ENEMY {F}, CRIPPLE BASTRADS, SEDLEC and GROEBELAR {all from Italy}. We played also w/UK anarcho-punk legend ZOUNDS, but we didn’t enjoyed them at all. I think there were no bigger problems at all as we book most of our shows through the people we know, so hardly anything seriously bad happens. We were pretty lucky to play 2 shows in Italy organized by Giulio/CRIPPLE BASTARDS, which helped us financially a lot, literally saving our asses – we rented an extremely expensive {but 100% reliable} van. Best places we played… almost all of them were super-cool, but I would definitely recommend Danz in Regensburg, OBW9 in Stuttgart {both Germany}, Les Tanneries in Dijon {France}, Arrebato in Zaragoza {Spain}, Lobato Etxea in San Sebastian {Basque country}, La Sede in Vigevano and Al Confino in Cremona {both Italy}. We had zero problems w/cops, in fact the border cops were almost saluting us when we were crossing the borders, which never happened to me before… We had only one crazy story when Tom got totally drunk in the morning after the Stuttgart show, went out of the squat, got totally lost and falled asleep on street-line rails. Some German guy woke him up and asked if he should call up cops or an ambulance and Tom just answered in his best German „What‘s the name of this city?“ When he learned that it‘s Stuttgart, he was happy and magically he managed to found his way back to the squat where everybody was already sleeping… He celebrated the happy-end with more vodka-shots on the bar and when Timo, the organizer, started to play TRAGEDY record, Tom went so wild that he stage dived to empty floor, fucked his right hand and had to eat some strong chemicals to fight the pain and to be able to play next few shows…
In the past we played in Holland and in Germany too. Honestly I didn’t liked Holland too much – while the people were pretty friendly, I felt the shows were kind of boring there, w/more people interested in disco party after the gig was over {and I would say it was pretty strong line-up incl. GRIDE and COCKROACH} than in the bands themselves. On the other way I like Holland a lot, it has some totally amazing cities, especially Utrecht and Amsterdam.

I know that you visited U.S. some months ago. I think that this must be an unforgettable experience for you. Where or what was your first point for this trip?? Have you got any preparation plan for this way? Tell me about your classical day in USA. You also said that you visited few cool gigs of new US bands (Have you seen also DOPPELGANGER - skate core from Concord?). Please could you recommend me few cool new bands that you saw? Tell me more about an awesome last REAGAN SS show.
Hahaha… Was it an unforgettable experience? Fuck yes! These were probably my best holidays ever! I organized them around the Super Sabado Fest, as it was sure since the first minute that it will be a great event w/some of my fave bands sharing the same bill. I was lucky to visit all the four shows of Super Sabado + SHANK/BREKFAST shows in San Diego’s Che Cafe and in LA’s Laffayete Community Center and finally SHANK’s last show in LA’s Headline Records. So it was like 7 shows in 10 days… fucking cool! To top it all we stayed in MRR House for like 5 days. It was totally great to meet so many cool people I have known for long years through trading records/correspondence only, people from bands I love, who never showed up in Europe etc. – Jeff/Six Weeks, Max 625, Martin Crudo, Ernie/ex-LIFES HALT, Jay/UGZ, Jon/IRON LUNG, Ken/Prank etc. Special big thanx goes to Mike Thorn, Matt Average and the NYC’s trio Lisa, Rich and Chris from BALANCE OF TERROR} for being our tour guides and for the general support and hospitality - super-friendly people! We owe you a lot! I was completely blown away by IRON LUNG set at Burnt Ramen, by KYLESA and GUYANA PUNCHLINE sets both at Burnt Ramen and Gilman and REAGAN SS… fuck, this was one of the most pissed off bands I ever saw! Total rage and destruction! I am not sure if these {Gilman and Mission} shows were the last REAGAN SS shows ever, I guess so, but this was an experience not from this world, haha! Like TEEN IDLES on speed! Another killer show was the LA’s one – the Laffayete Center was overcrowded w/hundreds of wild kids – the crowd was actually better than the bands in my opinion, really 100% crazy show. KNIFE FIGHT {new band w/ex-LIFES HALT members} also did an amazing set of raging hardcore at Headline, another killer band!
My mother works in LA, so it was easier for me + my girlfriend to come to U.S., because we still have to ask the American embassy for visas and often you are refused {because there are now like few dozens of thousands Czech citizens working ilegally}. Also I managed to pay most of the costs of my flying ticket from the sales of the book I wrote and put out {it’s about the history of punk rock and hardcore here in Czech during the communist times and it sold amazingly well, 1.500 copies sold so far}.
I must say that the hardcore/punk scene totally saved up my time there – because in general I didn‘t liked USA very much. Please understand, that I don’t want to offend anybody and definitely I don’t want to sound like an arrogant spoiled European. But the food you eat is shit {OK, the Mexican one is an exception}, the architecture is horrible {OK, I liked San Francisco and New York}, the public transport system in cities like LA is laughable {well, it don’t exist at all}, the car-dependency is scary and most of all I don’t like to be watched and policed around all the time {it happened esp. in some parts of LA}. In general I think the U.S. is perfect example of country where the so-called free market rules everything and it has some pretty scary consequences. While here in Europe {esp. in countries like Holland, Scandinavia etc.} we are kind of used that the state makes sure that the economical powers don’t go too out of hand {so the power of free market is still partly regulated}, in U.S. it’s totally opposite. Stuff like public healthcare, public transport, unemployment support, support for youth activities and for culture {ever heard about „youth centers“ in Germany subsidized by city councils where all these crust bands can rehearse and play?}, pretty strict regulations for building of new shopping malls or highways etc. etc. – we are kind of used for it over here. But for sure all these things are slowly cut down, as we head slowly towards the American kind way of doing things. It sucks. But again, I don’t want to sound so negative – I would definitely like to come back.

I think you had some ideas how the hardcore/punk scene in U.S. look like before you went there... yeah? Could you compare your previous ideas with the real situation you saw? Which were the most important differences?
Well, of course I had some vague ideas how would it look alike, but in the end it’s always a bit different. I understand that the shows I saw there were probably one of the top ones {w/some of the best bands from the country, w/people flying from all over to see them etc.} and definitely not the typical American standard. Some of the cool facts were that these gigs were smoking free, that all of them had big number of bands playing, pretty tight organization and especially the fact that all bands played really short and powerful sets was great. That’s something, which is too rare over here. Europe is known for having the gigs started around midnight with like 2-3 bands playing each like 1 hour long sets w/another half an hour between them– it happens often especially in Germany. The gigs I saw in California inspired me to organize gigs here in Brno the same way – to have always like 4 bands all the time blasting short and intense sets instead of 2 bands playing all the evening. I like my hardcore/punk short, fast and loud.
Other than that I would say that most of these „more popular“ hardcore/punk bands {by this I mean bands on 625, Prank or Six Weeks, not some Epitaph pop punk crap} work really hard doing like 2 months tours, putting lots of time into their rehearsing, recordings, graphics, distribution etc. It’s kind of easy to criticize U.S. bands for coming all the time to Europe and for „monopolizing“ the scene over here, but I am afraid that they are working harder {and in the end also sounding better – well at least some of them} than 90% of current European bands I know. Especially right now, in 2003 I can’t think about too many really good European bands, which would be so interesting and still active. Lots of super-good bands from over here split up in recent years let’s hope that some new ones will be able to replace them soon.

What do you think about the Christian hardcore bands? We just got a new 7“ of CAD (a drug-free Christian grind core band from Slovakia) for review in our DOOM´S DAY funzine and on its cover is an sentence "We would like to pray for SEE YOU IN HELL members“ - please could you explain this?
Fuck them. For me this has no place in hardcore/punk. I like to think about hardcore/punk like it’s an environment where the free independent thought and the distrust for authorities is encouraged and this shit is total contradiction in my opinion. Few years ago we have had here few „Hare Krshna core“ bands – just bunch of laughable cunts manipulated by SHELTER w/classic sentences like „The woman has intelligence of an 8 year child – it’s written in our holy books!“ Now it has finally vanished and these guys are back to „normal“, but right now we have here day by day stronger „Christian hardcore“ tendencies. Well, it’s especially a problem in Slovakia, while Czech Rep. is {thank God!} one of the most atheist countries in Europe. I don’t give a fuck about CAD and I love to read stuff like “I listen to hardcore, but my parents force me to go to church every Sunday…” from their Slovakian fans on the internet. To pray for SEE YOU IN HELL is a complete waste of time anyway, as we sold our souls to forces of devil already long time ago. But it definitely brings fun back to hardcore – when I translated and reprinted the famous Christian Corner column from MRR to my zine few years ago, I received good number of letters {esp. from Slovakia – sorry kids again!} who totally believed this crap. I almost died laughing.

I read few of your reviews in your cool fanzine HLUBOKA ORBA about bands like DEMON SYSTEM 13/ETA. They have also lyrics about skateboarding - you wrote that songs about skate are boring? I also skate and I love it - skateboarding is mainly about feelings for me. If I feel bad I must go out to streets!! Please tell more about it.
I don’t know, I guess that’s nothing too important to talk at length about. Some of the bands singing about this topic are cool sometimes it’s kind of worn out. Like w/every other topic. Some of the bands w/this image I like are WHN?, BREAKFAST, HOLIER THAN THOU? or DS-13. Also few old Czech hardcore bands from late 80s had killer songs about skateboarding like TELEX, SUCIDAL COMMANDO or S.R.K. – back then it was more authentic to me.

Let’s talk now more about your HLUBOKA ORBA zine. I have heard that you prepare new issue of it - I think it will be issue 24 already. I know that you put out this zine for 10 years already or more. Please tell me more about this new issue and also about Czech zine scene. Which zines influenced you back then when you have started?
Well, issue 24 of HLUBOKA ORBA is already out {December 2003}, it’s a 10 years anniversary issue, w/120 pages of full-page format, 2 colored cover and pretty slick super-professional printing. Also it’s put together like a book, it looks really pretty nice and I am for 100% satisfied w/the result. Issue 24 has all original and in-depth interviews w/Daryl Kahan {ex-CITIZENS ARREST}, Matt Average/ex-REAGAN SS, Mike Thorn/Maximum Rock’n’Roll, CONFUSIONE, HOMO CONSUMENS, SICHERHATE SYSTEM, tour report from GRIDE/SEE YOU IN HELL trip, big feature about shows in Brno during 2003 incl. tons of photos, more than 100 reviews for vinyls and tapes from all over the world, scene reports from Boston, Toronto, Firenze, Zaragoza and Helsinki, columns etc. This time I wanted to put really big number of photos in it, because the quality of printing allowed it, so there are some unpublished photos from Matt A. + many more: LIMPWRIST, RAMBO, TEAR IT UP, SHANK, DAMAD or BALANCE OF TERROR, photos from Brno’s gigs of 9 SHOCKS TERROR, TRAGEDY, GRIDE, MIGRA VIOLENTA, SEVERED HEAD OF STATE, BORN DEAD ICONS etc. I also put in a cool photo documentation from Super Sabado Fest. The entire zine is written in Czech language, but the whole thing comes w/thick insert in English, where you can find about half of the stuff translated {interviews, scene reports etc.}. I did 1.000 copies this time, so I really need some help w/distribution, please drop me a line if you are interested.
About the Czech zine scene - I am not sure how interesting it is for foreign readers, as far as I know all the zines are in Czech language {which is totally OK w/me} – I like E.Y.F. zine which is probably dead already, but it will continue under the new name Bacteria, I like also Impregnate, Dooms Day, Killed By Noise Newsletter, Vrahzda zine… There are not too many good zines today, big shame. Seems like internet took over the once cool and vibrant zine scene w/all these shitty guestbooks and endless discussions about total crap.
When H.O. started few classic zines influenced me, esp. Sot and Malarie, both from Brno. I wanted to do the zine focused on raw DIY hardcore/punk and radical politics/life style, through all these years H.O. interviewed bands from all over the world such as RESIST, CAPITALIST CASUALTIES, OI POLLOI, SPAZZ, ORCHID, EBOLA, DISCLOSE, AGATHOCLES, LOCUST, SEEIN RED, DISORDER, CRIPPLE BASTARDS, also labels like Darbouka Records, Prank Records, Strongly Opposed etc. I did also few special „theme issues“ about veganism, about 80s Italian punk, about mass-medias or about „New American Left“ {reprinted interviews w/Chomsky, Biafra etc.}. It is also pretty cool that more people are collaborating on the zine, writing regular columns, reviews etc. - mostly my good friends from other Czech bands such as GRIDE, PANGS OF REMORSE, MINDLOCK etc. I am not totally sure about the future of the zine but I guess that at least once in a year I will be able to put it out, probably always pretty thick, so it will be more like a book than a regular zine.

Tell me your opinion about this situation: two labels trade w/each other, but the first label is interested in new {hot} releases only, but in the same time the kids from this label don’t want to trade their own new hot releases w/the second label. What do you think about it? What’s your opinion about trading between bands/labels?
So far I had no experience like this one and I trade w/labels and bands from all parts of the world since early 90’s. I don’t know, it’s up to you if you choose to trade or cooperate with label like this, also I do think that maybe it’s not too cool to force somebody to trade your stuff w/you if he’s not interested… I think that trading is super-cool and most of my enormous vinyl collection is put together from trades. It’s still way cheaper for labels and bands over here in ex-East Europe to get hardcore/punk this way.

With SEE YOU IN HELL you also organized a few tours or single gigs for bands from abroad around Czech Rep. For example for 9 SHOCKS TERROR, BORN DEAD ICONS, SEVERED HEAD OF STATE, CONFUSIONE, MIGRA VIOLENTA and more... Do you organize also tours for Czech bands or only for bands from the abroad? Tell me more about the possibility for bands that would like to play in Brno or need to help with Czech tour?
Obviously we are no tour agency and it all goes down to helping bands we know personally or to bands we really like and want to support. In recent years SEE YOU IN HELL did short Czech tours w/ANTICHRIST from Poland, QUATRO STAGIONI and RACAK from Germany, CONFUSIONE from Italy, Slovakian tour w/THE PUBLIC, few European tours w/GRIDE, few short tours w/other Czech bands like MINDLOCK and HOMO CONSUMENS etc. Also in 2003 we started to organize gigs in our hometown Brno together w/FESTA DESPERATO friends under the „United Crusties“ name. So far all goes extremely well w/like 100-150 people in the attendance each time, no money lost, wild and friendly vibes and esp. w/some super killer bands on the bill {all these foreign names you mentioned + we always put some support bands from Czech with them like MASSGENOCIDE PROCESS, HOMO CONSUMENS, SPACE TO BEING, AD CALENDAS GRAECAS etc.}. Recently we did this KILLED BY BRNO mini festival w/some of the best Czech bands of different styles {but all punk as fuck, no emo and no metal bullshit} playing together – MALIGNANT TUMOUR, V.V.B., FOOLOCRACY, FESTA DESPERATO, FRIENDSHIP FOREVER etc. Also the side project of SYIH called TUZEX played – doing old Czechoslovakian hardcore/punk covers exclusively dressed in super punk as fuck outfits. Check out the photo galery at www.seeyouinhell.cz. Before the show we did video projection w/the Martin Sorrondeguy’s document about the Latino American punk scene, w/my footage of Super Sabado Fest and w/few documents about early Czechoslovakian punk – people really liked it. This was probably the best event of the year in Brno for us – w/more than 200 people in the attendance, extremely cool atmosphere and an excessive Absinth consumption.
For 2004 „United Crusties“ plan to set up Czech tours for SICK TERROR from Brazil and for BLOWN TO BITS from California. I am really looking forward to it. We also plan to tour Europe again in September together w/our eternal brothers in arms GRIDE, this time it should be UK, north of France, Belgium Holland and Germany.
As I already wrote, we can help bands we know and like, but too many times we got asked by bands who decide to tour and nobody has ever heard about them. While it obviously doesn’t mean that they are not good musically, I think that it’s a waste of time and money as nobody would come to see them anyway. I strongly suggest to any band who want to tour to release something at first, then to distribute it widely and then think about touring, not the other way around. Also we want to help mostly to raw, loud, DIY and hardcore/punk as fuck bands. For the other styles which we loathe {emo, street punk, tough guy HC, metal etc.} there are other collectives here in Brno, we can pass on their contacts, if you need them.

Your lyrics are really depressive - sometimes they read like TV news for situation after the atomic bomb explosion. I know that most of the lyrics are written by you what are your feelings about this world’s situation? Please tell me more.
I would say that our lyrics just reflect our lives. While we try to do our best esp. w/all these activities in hardcore/punk scene to create some free cool space where we can do something independent and constructive and most of all free of all this bullshit surrounding us, we still have to live our ordinary crazy fucked daily life. I think there’re not too many things to be happy about in this society, that’s why we are punks. If you are interested in our lyrics, just read them, we sing in Czech, but the English translations are always included. Obviously they aren’t about nice topics such as peace, love, happiness and unity.

Some new SEE YOU IN HELL songs are also included in your big project called "Dying Alive/Living Dead" a.k.a. the Czech raw hardcore comp. LP. Could you introduce this really great record to us?
In summer 2002 when I did this already discussed book about the Czechoslovakian hardcore/punk history called „Kytary a rev“ {„Guitars And Screams“}, I felt that I need to start a new project. I thought about all these great compilations which had big impact on me – like „North Atlantic Noise Attack“, „Welcome To 1984“, „Cleanse The Bacteria“, „This Is Boston, Not LA“, „Hardcore Ljubljana“, „Finnish Spunk And Hard Beat“, „Jak Punk To Punk“, „Rapsodie“, „Flex Your Head“ etc. and decided to do compilation LP w/Czech bands which I like. It was released a year later in collaboration of 11 labels. 12 bands are included, all playing pissed off hardcore. Some of my faves are HOMO CONSUMENS w/their 80s Italian punk worship, ultra crust monsters DREAD 101 and MASSGENOCIDE PROCESS, also INNOXIA CORPORA doing this classic East European catchy punk as fuck w/great choruses, SPACE TO BEING playing the wild “625 thrash” style of HC or SICHERHATE SYSTEM who sound like „First Four Years“ BLACK FLAG era. The record comes w/thick booklet as well incl. the long and detailed history of hardcore/punk in Czech Rep. from 1977 until today and it also comes w/tons of photos. I am glad that the compilation received very positive reactions and I guess it’s already nearly sold out, so hurry up, if you are interested.

I saw you live few times and I must say that the stage presence of your singer Jozka „Satan Punk“ is really destructive and awesome in the same time. What do the kids think about his show?
Thanx for your compliments, but you have to ask them, I don’t care.

What do you think about the relationships between Czech Republic and USA, when it comes down to some world scale conflicts {such as the Iraq invasion}?
Czech Republic is pretty small state in the middle of Europe and since ages we have always been dominated and colonized by imperialist forces of all various genres {do you remember this ASSHOLE PARADE full 7“ cover photo? There’s this guy standing in front of the tank – that’s from Prague’s streets in 1968 when Russia invaded us}. And it means that in Czech policy there’s this eternal tradition to kiss somebody’s ass all the time. Before 1989 it was Soviet Union and now it’s USA. Sometimes it goes totally out of hand. We are one of the most pro-American countries in whole Europe. In fact most of these ex-Communist countries {Czech, Poland, Baltic states} are strong supporters of US policy. Maybe it has something to do w/the fact that US government heavily supported dissent movements against Communist regimes over here in the past and when these regimes failed, they took over the power. But I hope that people do realize more and more that it’s a pretty unfair relationship. The arrogant actions of your asshole president don’t help too much in viewing USA as a good and nice fellow and also the kind of people your country sends down here as for example U.S. ambassadors… I don’t know, it seems like it’s always some sick conservative 100% right wing Republican fucker whose only qualification for this job is that he pumped down huge amounts of money to Bush’s election campaign and who represents the interests of big American business only. What’s even worse is that they constantly feel the need to remind us who is our biggest ally and that we have to be totally on his side. Last week the U.S. ambassador lobbied heavily Czech government to buy U.S. air fighters, threatening us that our relationships would get worse if we don’t appreciate this offer. That’s disgusting. Also it’s important to mention that while we have to go through the pretty expensive and difficult process to obtain visas to visit USA, American citizens don’t need them and are able to travel down here without any problem – you lucky bastards!

And last question - Please tell me about your plans for future (I saw many upcoming releases of SYIH on your website). Congratulations – that’s really cool, when band put out so many records on various labels coming from different parts of world! What about touring the United States or some other country out of Europe? OK mates, that’s all for now. Thanks a lot for your replies. Cheers and beers.
As I said, I will become a father soon, so we may start a punk nursery… We rehearse a lot for upcoming LP and as I said in September 2004 we plan to tour Europe again. The U.S. tour is out of question I guess, we are not so known yet and I doubt we ever will be. It’s a nice idea, but it’s not something we would strive for now.
Thanks a lot for this cool interview - we appreciate it. Make sure to listen to lots of old East-European hardcore/punk from 80’s – from Poland {REJESTRACJA, SIEKIERA, DEZERTER, MOSKWA, ARMIA, TZN XENNA etc.}, from East Germany {L’ATTENTAT, SCHLEIMKEIM, KALTFRONT…} and especially from Czechoslovakia {F.P.B., RADEGAST, H.N.F., ZONA A, TELEX, MICHAEL’S UNCLE, S.R.K., SKIMMED, A 64, S.M.S., SANOV etc.}. Make sure to listen to lots of current Czech hardcore/punk bands {GRIDE, HOMO CONSUMENS, INNOXIA CORPORA, SICHERHATE SYSTEM, FOOLOCRACY, BALACLAVA, FESTA DESPERATO, MALIGNANT TUMOUR, CO-CA etc.}. Open up your fucking ears to bands coming from „non-trendy“ parts of the world. You don’t want to die missing such a classic stuff, do you? Stay punk, please, don’t end up like yuppies, religious fanatics or apolitical skinheads. Thanx.