Serbian Metal Bands You Should Check Out #1

Hello steem metalheads! As you may know, I'm from Serbia. Country of so many great rock and metal bands. There is one small problem with them, no one ever heard of them. They are usually just known locally and with lack of finance to support themselves, they usually die unknown, and its kinda depressing. To put things into perspective, Serbia is a poor country, and its understandable that you'll need the biggest luck in the world to succeed here with band of any kind, not to mention, rock, or even worse, metal.

So I will start this series of "Serbian Metal Bands You Should Check Out", to kind of try promoting them a little bit. So I hope you'll check them out and I'll be glad if any one of you find them interesting! \m/

The first one that I'll be talking about is technical thrash band called Space Eater from Belgrade.

Space Eater was founded in Belgrade, Serbia in October 2004 by Boško “RNA” Radišić (vocals) and Stanislav Šaršanski (guitars). Soon after joined Karlo Testen (bass), Nemanja Pavlović (guitars) and Nikola Roglić (drums). This line up recorded the first demo “Live in Studio 6” and reached the finals in the 202 Radio's Demo Masters Tournament where their performance was stopped by the police due to violent moshing.

“Bombs Away” demo was recorded in 2006 with the new drummer Vladimir Bogdanović Điga and was proclaimed “demo of the month” in the April issue of Serbian Metal Hammer magazine. This demo landed a deal with Swedish I Hate Records, and thus the first full-lenght entitled “Merciful Angel” was recorded and released in 2007.

In early 2009 the band recorded an 8 track demo for the new album and started searching for a label to release it. Then, on June 3rd 2009 great tragedy struck. Boško “RNA” Radišić and his sister died in a fire in the building they lived in and the band was put on hold.

However the band decided to continue and keep the idea which Boško started alive. In came Luka “Tower” Matković (vocals, gutiars) and Marko “Tihi” Danilović (drums) and the band continued as a four piece. This line up recorded the “Aftershock” album using Boško's demo vocal tracks for the existing eight songs and added two new songs to complete the album. It was released by Stormspell Records in 2010 on CD and later by Metalizer records on vinyl. The band then promoted the album by playing numerous gigs across the country and started writing songs for a new release.

In 2012 “Ninja Assassin” demo was released and the band started looking for a label to release their new album. In early 2013 Space Eater toured Europe with a new guitar player Đorđe Luković, alongside the band Infest that I will talk about in the near future, and landed a record deal with PureSteel records from Germany. 2014 saw the release of the “Passing Through the Fire to Molech” album and the band's first video for the song “A Thousand Plagues”.

When I listened to the "Passing Through the Fire to Molech", I was so proud of them. They blew me away, and the biggest part of that sensations was the progress of their talent, song structure, energy through the years. When you listen to their older stuff, its fine, its enjoyable thrash, enough for having a good time. But "Passing Through the Fire to Molech" is where its at. Such fun to be had with this chaotic, melodic, fast, brutal LP.

Its unfortunate that they disbanded few years back, leaving only the bass player Karlo Testen in the band, and we'll have to wait and see whats going to happen to the band. Also, people that left Space Eater, made a new band called Quasarborn. They've released few tracks so far but not enough for me to make something on them. I'll wait on something big, and we'll see.

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Links for Space Eater:
http://www.facebook.com/SpaceEater
https://www.youtube.com/user/SpaceEaterOfficial
https://www.reverbnation.com/spaceeater
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1538704-Space-Eater

Links for Quasarborn:
https://www.facebook.com/quasarborn101/
https://quasarborn.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIOMS02CPM1FBpybHNQ1Byw