Zmajevdah (Croatia) - zmajevdah v.0 (2008?2012)

Zmaj - 1:00 PM

"Grindcore is love," I thought, some seventeen years of age. Life was ambivalent, except for when it came to love. Part of it came out with these recordings, initially meant for a split with Twitch Savant. Yet years go by, you know, maybe nothing even happens, but all of a sudden connections disappear, disintegrate in some strange post-natural air of our skyscraper hell. You might even think, for a while, "Hollow pocket, hollow heart - to slave away my body or my nerves..."


Noisy nights. Keep looking. How many blastbeats does it take? Eight lo-fi tracks of some steamy, DxAx worshipping, cyberpunk enthusiastic, scrap metal hybrid, no ten minutes long. It went like this:

zmajevdah v.0
01. Tachikoma
02. Perfect Blue
03. Bullet Ballet
04. Zenislev
05. Megastructure
06. Search
07. Antarctica
08. Ingram
+ bonus track
09. The Jenova (GridLink)

Zmajevdah is a solo project abounding with blastbeats - thanks to everyone who gives it a spin! Glad to be putting it finally up (recorded way back, early 2008 or so / date of e-release: today), "embarassing lyrics" and all (with original [pre-bitcrush] photos of our City, courtesy of Smetnja), as it's been bugging me for quite a while, even though I may have not managed to do what I wanted, especially considering the (sound) quality of the mix. In any case, those who like it may do whatever they want with it.

Good or bad, that's probably the first GridLink cover to have happened (Earth, 2010): The Lo-fi Jenova! Twitch Savant (the guy behind [for example:] Blaencathra) doing the drumming, with me on guitars & vocals. That said, I've never done coke, nor have I dived with a parachute, but playing Matsubara's riffs ought to be a fairly similar experience (next cover, Mortalized?!).

Available for free (or NYP) @ BANDCAMP.

Originally released "here" and on Jay Randall's Grindcore Karaoke.


A split CD soon to be released on ZugZwang Records: Zmajevdah with Emotion of Loss, a Russian industrial doom project by the man behind the Quagmire label (who released Sete Star Sept's 4th demo).
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8 Comments

  1. gamefacedApril 16, 2012 at 4:27 AM

    you must do cover mortalized,
    great work (still)

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  2. DesiccatedVeinsApril 17, 2012 at 9:05 PM

    Nice, I'm excited to hear what your new material's going to sound like.

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  3. ZmajApril 18, 2012 at 6:14 PM

    eerieVal: Well, I'd definitely enjoy doing one. (& thanks!)

    Nigel Nigelovich Nigeljnikov: (about ZugZwang, right? ...) It's not exactly new! And not exactly grind. I'll send you (the two of) them if you'd like, anyhow.

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  4. DesiccatedVeinsApril 18, 2012 at 9:41 PM

    Yeah, about the ZugZwang project, and either way, I'd still definitely like to hear it. Your stuff rarely disappoints. And shit, I wish everyone would call me that, Karlo Karlolovich! (Karlovich? I suck with patronymics and the like).

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  5. ZmajApril 21, 2012 at 1:21 PM

    Thanks Nigel Nigelovich. And hey, it would be - if it could come to be - Karlovich, but Karlolovich sure sounds funky! :D Are these some sort of, um... autonyms? Something different, that, humm...

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  6. thethirdchildrenMay 3, 2012 at 6:43 AM

    Hey, congrats to being added to grindcore karaoke :-)

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  7. ZmajMay 3, 2012 at 5:55 PM

    Oh that's right. The man checked it out, sent me an email and that's that - props to him.

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  8. AnonymousMay 4, 2012 at 10:37 AM

    Don't know if you've seen this:

    https://twitter.com/#!/agoraphobicnb/status/198157440355799040

    https://twitter.com/#!/deadneanderthal/status/198157844552495104

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