Re-up Grazhdanskaya Oborona

This is Grazhdanskaya Oborona's album "Civil Defense". This is probably one of the first albums we ever uploaded here (this, Ahab, or the KARP Demo Tape), and I happened to notice it was down.

Grazdanskaya Oborona - Civil Defense

(awesome lo-fi russian cold-war era punk rock)

RIP Letov

!T.O.O.H.!

!T.O.O.H.! (The Obliteration Of Humankind) were a "deathgrind" band from the great Czech Republic. In their infancy, they were sort of a straight-ahead death metal group, in the sense that their lyrics revolved mainly around gore (like most Brutal Death Metal Groups). Later on, as the band matured, their lyrics picked up focus moreso on politics than anything else. The band managed to release 3 LPs before disintegrating, woefully at the hands of their label Earache Records (who dropped them a couple of months after the release of their album, which financially devastated them).

!T.O.O.H.! has a very distinctive sound that's difficult for me to describe--but every single time I listen to them, I enjoy them immensely. If you're relatively interested in grindcore, death metal (Death, Cynic, so on and so forth), or Eastern-European Metal bands in general, check this out:

From Higher Will (first record)
Pod Vlaudou Bice
Rad a Trest (last record)

--fred

Yegor Letov Dies at Age 43

1964-2008

Yegor Letov, singer of Soviet-era Russian punk band Grazhdanskaya Oborona, died on Feb. 19th, 2008 of Heart Failure. If you don't know who he is, this dude did a pretty good job of summing things up: http://soveticus.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/yegor-letov-had-died/

Here, take a free album. I don't think Russia cares.