Thursday, March 22, 2007

Phantasmagoria



Phantasmagoria

Phantasmagoria chose a way through music with an idea of creating something unique in the post punk sunset of Zagreb. Inspiration for the name was found at the same titled The Damned album, but it also reminds about apparent fiction of universal truth. Marked as a dark band Phantasmagoria soon earned their status in Croatian underground szene. First single "Alex" (1988.) went straight to No. 1 indie-charts position which was followed by the press responses in the favour of the band. The following singles "Poziv U Raj" and "Ja Gledam Svojim Ocima" (1989.) repeated that success. Phantasmagoria 1990. earned the title of a best new alternative band by music press. The first Phantasmagoria’s video-clip for the song "Better World" (1991.) came straight to No. 1 on national television chart and next one, for the song "Isolated" (1992.), was chosen as one of 10 the best video-clips in Croatia for the year 1993. Although the war in Croatia seriously damaged their career, Phantasmagoria never gave up playing live, in war-zones and at many anti-war festivals. Phantasmagoria has twice performed at the famous festival "Wave Gotik Treffen" in Leipzig, Germany, played on "Dark Nation Day" festival in Vienna, "Metal Camp" in Slovenia, "Viva La Pola!" festival in Pula, Croatia, a headliner tour in Czech Republic and Slovakia, supported and play with many great acts like The Young Gods, Mizar, Let 3, New Model Army, Iggy Pop, Borghesia, Christian Death, Kismet, Clan Of Xymox, Theatres Des Vampires, Diva Destruction, Moriis, In Extremo, Charon, Deathstars, Type O Negative, The 69 Eyes, The Mission, ... 93!


website

and because they are still a demo band here is their 'promo-demo' CD. We found this at Angel Heaven Blog and we thank Alex for this post:

Tracks:

01.Djevojka od bronce (Mizar cover)
02.She`s lost control (Joy Division cover)
03.Nephilim (live Kulusic Zagreb 1995)
04.Ja gledam svojim ocima
05.A forest (Cure cover)
06.Grad tihog ocaja
07.Gimme gimme gimme (Abba cover)

free download

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Link is down here. Some chance reupload? All others blog have shared the discography of this band are dead.

A Chicken said...

Fucking copyright assholes removing links. I understand that most of the time people post popular media that can be available elsewhere, but this is not one of those cases. Only mp3 copy I probably could have found, and now it's gone. This is why pirating is sometimes a good thing objectively.