Human Error: Ways to Self Destruction专辑介绍
by Alex Henderson
The fall of communism in Eastern Europe had a tremendous impact on the music scenes of countries like Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia), and Bulgaria. Leninist and Stalinist hard-liners tended to take a dim view of anything other than Euro-classical and very traditional East European folk, and when those hard-liners were no longer in power, musicians suddenly had a lot more room for artistic expression. That is certainly true in post-communist Poland, where everything from hardcore rap to avant-garde jazz to bubblegum-dance-pop has flourished. Back in the days of communism, a death metal/black metal band like Crionics would have been a no-no-; if communist hard-liners thought Miles Davis' Kind of Blue was subversive, one can only imagine what they would have thought of an album with titles like "Satanic Syndrome 666," "Hallowed Whores," and "Waterfalls of Darkness." Stalinists weren't fond of religion, but they weren't fans of the Occult either -- and Occult-minded … » Read more