Distress "Put U Raj" 7"

This is not Distress from Saint-Petersburg, Russia that's active now, this is band from Belgrade, the capitol of ex-Yugoslavia and now Serbia, that was active in early 80s. Distress (together with Solunski Front and Necrophilia) were the part of the first wave of hadcore bands from Belgrade. Until 1982 they were called Herpes Distress. They were influenced by early Finnish hardcore punk bands like Rattus, Kaaos and Bastards. During their existence they shared the stage with some of the all-time greats that played in ex-Yu like Rattus and B.G.K. in 1984. They were one of the few ex-Yu hc punk bands that managed to get some studio time because the producers from the studios were state puppets and state didn't liked punk very much. This is the stuff from that session and it waited 12 years to be released on vinyl. One of the more notable appearances of theirs was on the World Class Punk compilation tape done by Mykel Board from MRR. Well this was short version of bio from the 7" and now go grab this killer record because you'll have hard time to get the vinyl 'cause there were only 200 copies pressed.

Released: 1996
Label: No Time To Be Wasted Records
Size: 26 MB

01. Izdaja Ljudskih Prava
02. Sutra
03. Rat
04. Put U Raj

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Total Failure "Use Your Head"

This is (was) the band from Kraljevo, Serbia. Heavily influenced by UK punk scene (proof: covers of Chaos U.K., Ripcord and Oi Polloi). Their real name is Totalni Promašaj and all of their songs are in their native language (Chaos U.K. and Ripcord covers too). Their name and tracklist are in english 'cause this was issued in Japan.
They toured Slovenia with my friends Bad Justice from Požega, Croatia in 1996 as part of "Over The Walls Of Nationalism And War" (see previous post) project and that was the first tour of two bands from these countries that were at war until one year ago (then, not now). I was happy to be with them on tour and I remember having a very good time even though 3/4 of the band were straight edge and everyone else more or less dead drunk/stoned. I especially remember when a friend of mine fell asleep in one of the big speakers on stage while Forca Macabra were playing. That was a keeper.
I don't have the original CD and the cover is (badly) photocopied. The original CD was in 7" cover.
By the way, their drummer was around 13 or 14 years old when they recorded this!

Released: 1995
Label: HG Fact
Size: 99 MB

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01. Man From The Street (Chaos U.K. cover)
02. Sold Souls
03. Today
04. Front Line
05. Intro
06. Waiting For Tomorrow
07. Noone And Nothing
08. Spite
09. Useless Death
10. Election Campaign
11. Nonsense
12. Fuck Off
13. Mascot (Ripcord cover)
14. Tam-Tam-Tam
15. I Don't Give Them Anything
16. For Better World
17. 12 O'Clock
18. That's All For My Benefit ?!
19. Drug-Why
20. Hands Off Yugoslavia (Oi Polloi cover)
21. Shadow

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