Serbia - Breaking The Silence Radio 2

Breaking the Silence Radio 1


"BTS show is still alive, next August we're gonna turn 18 years. The owner decided to kick us out of the radio station. We were very angry because of that, because all these years we did that show for free. We only wanted 90 minutes of radio programme. He has decided that he doesn't want that kind of music on his radio waves. So now we're recording the whole show, then we are uploading it and sharing the link to our listeners. New links you can find every Thursday (6pm, UTC+1) on our web...
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Serbia - Novi Sad

Serbia - Petrovgrad/Novi Sad

"Novi Sad is the second largest city in Serbia which has had a great and pretty big punk and hardcore scene for over 30 years. Although I'll be focusing on the contemporary scene and bands, I must mention some great bands which don't exist anymore:

Mitesers


nospeedlimit


Provokacija


Strive For More


When speaking about the scene generally in Novi Sad, thing that has to be mentioned is SKC (Studentski kulturni centar).


Besides making it possible for us to see The Damned, The Adicts, Peter and The Test Tube Babes, Sham 69 and many other bands in our city for free, they released several albums of local bands which is so great because there's not any label running in Novi Sad. They also put up many punk rock and hardcore shows and the To Be Punk festival in June.


When it comes to the concerts, there are some to see at least once a month, but Belgrade is near and also many people travel to Hungary and Austria to see their favorite bands. Unlike couple of years ago, there's only one venue left, Youth Center CK13, which isn't enough, but we keep it going somehow.

There were a bunch of the zines in nineties, but there's only one paper zine now, Rebuild, which focuses on hardcore.


There are a lot of bands working at the moment. I would start with the bands I think deserve the most attention:

Reflections Of Internal Rain play the mixture of D-beat and hardcore punk with lyrics dealing with personal issues. These guys have been working really hard on everything about the band, which you can hear on their release and you should definitely see them live.


Conviction is really good metalcore band which exists since 2006. The crowd always gets crazy on their shows which is not so usual for Novi Sad, so it's awesome.


Red Union play melodic street punk with strong political and social leftist lyrics. They are active part of the Novi Sad antifascist scene and they toured Europe couple of times.


Poslednji pokusaj is very good oi punk band which deserves attention. They have just recorded their first demo.

Other great bands:

Ground Zero



Atheist Rap


Prolece


The Bayonets


The Detonators


There are also two new bands which formed couple of months ago which I'm totally excited about...

Through These Eyes is a hardcore band musically influenced mostly by Where Fear And Weapons Meet and youth crew with POSI lyrics about friendship, unity, straight edge etc. They are in the studio now, so expect great material soon.

Another band is Furtive Forest with their modern melodic hardcore sound.

Jain, another new band, but from Belgrade

And one screamo hardcore band from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Deer in The Headlights."

Serbia - Petrovgrad/Novi Sad

The scene in Petrovgrad is pretty good. We have a few good bands that are very important for the Serbian hardcore underground...

All Except One


Trash Union


In Novi Sad are things pretty much the same :) A good band is Remedy


Everything here is DIY, organising local shows, bringing bands from other countries, album releasing.

If you don't do it yourself no one will...

Serbia - Breaking The Silence Radio

It could be rightfully argued that the rock scene in Serbia was much stronger and more developed during the 1990s. At the time hardcore was hardcore, and nowadays some metal bands are classified as hardcore. The year 1993 is one of the most significant ones for the hardcore/punk scene in Smederevo. The radio show "BREAKING THE SILENCE" (BTS) was born that year. At its conception it was bearing a different name, but it presented the same phenomenon, and that is the weekly dose of punk and hardcore on the radio waves.

In those days it was really hard to hear this kind of music genre anywhere, and I believe that if there wasn't this radio show, not a lot of people would exist in the hardcore scene. People who were working on the show at the time, and us, the younger generations later on, had to work extra hard, and had to find different ways of finding the new releases (at the time we did not have the internet :) ). A lot of publishing places met our needs and helped us out, and we stayed in contact with them to this day. In some years, the list would be really extensive and as many as 20 to 30 publishers would send us their promo material. We even received discs (CDs) up to a month before their official release dates and got exclusive rights to be the first ones to air them. So the people who listened our show knew that they would hear certain editions here for the first time. Except for presenting the new albums we also try to air a lot of old tracks and in that way we are familiarizing the new and younger audience with the older bands. You can see our playlists and you would understand our mission (philosophy).


After 15 years of work, BTS branched out as an organisation. Since nothing much happened in our town regarding the hardcore concerts, we decided to take matter in our own hands. Money has always posed the biggest problem. Some people wanted to organise gigs but due to the financial crisis that is lasting here for the past two decades, they never fully managed it. Now in the BTS organisation there are 15 to 20 of us who put together our own money and manage to pay to the bands to come and play here. We always end up with a deficit, but at least that loss is equally divided among 15 to 20 of us, and we had great hard core concert.

BTS show exists to this day, and this year in August we will celebrate our 17th birthday. I am not sure of present existence of any older hardcore show in Europe. I love to live in conviction that we are the longest lasting ones. It's not important who works on it, it is important that it exists.



BREAKING THE SILENCE - HARDCORE/PUNK RADIO SHOW.

Serbia 2

Serbia 1

We used to have a lot of bands during the 90's (check out Hard Core Serbia 90's... people regularly post links to albums and videos, if you're interested), but in the past few years it seems people have lost interest in hc. I'm still hoping it will pick up, and a new wave of people will come :)

As far as bands today go, there aren't that many. I see already you have added Let's Grow, Unison and Jaibo! (all great bands, kudos :))

Check out Ha-Ko Bastards (all the bands listed there, are from Serbia, except where noted. You can download a few songs from there too, so give it a listen :)

Path Of Decay recently released an album, but it isn't listed there yet, so definitely check them out.

Serbia 1

The scene in Serbia was great during the '90's when there were really hard times to make any kind of music because of the political situation in the country. Today, we have a lot of bands which should get more attention than those who can financially express their music and that is really sad but I hope there'll come a better time for diy bands.:)

Bands I can recommend u -

Unison (Belgrade)

Let's Grow (Belgrade)

Jaibo (Belgrade)

Dead Ideas (Belgrade)

Discord (Belgrade)

Hitman (Belgrade)

Trash Union (Zrenjanin)