Tomi Phantasma - vocals,
Miro - lead guitar,
Alan - bass,
Marin - keyboards
Influences
Iggy & The Stooges, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Christian Death, The Damned, Laibach, The Sisters Of Mercy, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Mission, Fields Of The Nephilim, Killing Joke, Mizar, Paradise Lost, Tiamat, Moonspell, The 69 Eyes, Type O Negative, Aleister Crowley, Nietzsche,...
Zeitgeist [Part 1. Religion] The Greatest Story Ever Told
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Phantasmagoria chose a way through music with an idea of creating something diferent in the post punk sunset of Zagreb at the end of eighties. Inspiration for the name was found at the same titled The Damned album, but it also reminds about apparent fiction of universal truth. Marked as a dark and controversial band and often compared with the some of the biggest names of the genre, such as The Sisters Of Mercy, Killing Joke, The Fields Of The Nephilim,......, Phantasmagoria soon earned the cult status in Croatian underground szene.
First single "Alex" (1988.) went straight to No. 1 indie-charts position which was followed by the press responses in the favour of the band. The following singles "Poziv U Raj" and "Ja Gledam Svojim Ocima" (1989.) repeated that success. Phantasmagoria 1990. earned the title of a best new alternative band by music press. The first Phantasmagoria’s video-clip for the song "Better World" (1991.) came straight to No. 1 on national television chart and next one, for the song "Isolated" (1992.), was chosen as one of 10 the best video-clips in Croatia for the year 1993. However, band's cult status also resulted with bad publicity within the local Catholic Church, which escalated to the constant assaults from local Church newspapers and even with ripping off the band's posters from the walls because of the pentagram usage as a symbol of the band and reffering to the philosophy of Aleister Crowley.
Although the war in Croatia seriously damaged their career, Phantasmagoria never gave up playing live, in war-zones and at many anti-war festivals. Phantasmagoria has twice performed at the famous festival "Wave Gotik Treffen" in Leipzig, Germany, played on "Dark Nation Day" festival in Vienna, "Metal Camp" in Slovenia, "Viva La Pola!" festival in Pula, Croatia, a headliner tour in Czech Republic and Slovakia, supported and play with many great acts like The Young Gods, Mizar, Let 3, New Model Army, Iggy Pop, Borghesia, Christian Death, Kismet, Clan Of Xymox, Theatres Des Vampires, Diva Destruction, Moriis, In Extremo, Charon, Deathstars, Type O Negative, The 69 Eyes, The Mission,... 93!
"Alex" recorded live at MC Pekarna, Maribor 2008
"Ne" recorded live 17.02. 2008 at Boogaloo Club, Zagreb
"Fenix" (live at Viva La Pola! 2005 Festival)
"Never Let Me Down (Again)" (live at Viva La Pola! 2005 Festival)
"Djevojka Od Bronce" video clip made by fan
Land Of Fantasy (very rare live in studio recording 1993)
The Dark Age (very rare live in studio recording 1993)
I Wanna Be Your Dog / Burn (very rare live recording Pula 1992)
Our debut album " Ship In Your Trip" Is finally out !!! Soon you will be able to buy it from any local record store , Online Store - www.sleaszyrider.com - www.nephilimstore.gr - www.rockcity.gr Athens : Nuclear Blast Shop Greece METAL ERA Rockstar Rock City Thessaloniki: NEPHILIM STORE
The new album will be available from today get ready to grab your original copy and listen to the whole song & support Richard Christ ! ;) get CD in your car and Smash Your Ears !!!
Hvala Vam na dodavanju prijatelji! :-)) Nadam se da ce Vam se svideti sta pravim i sta prodajem. Pogledajte i nadam se komentarisite! Prijatno vece i nedelju Vam zelim!
Thank you, We appreciate your support ! We hope to see ya soon at one of our shows and make sure to check out our music at our MySpace and check the merchandise in our shop !
HORNS UP !!!!!! GWYDION http://www.freewebstore.org/GwydionShop
THE RETURN OF THE BAT
Specimen will bring their special brand of glam mayhem, The Batcave to London again.
After last year’s wildly-successful 25th anniversary Batcave event, The Batcave returns to its original spawning ground of London’s West End on Sunday July 19 for another night of blasphemy, lechery and blood.
Specimen (Fresh from a fantastic show at Leipzig’s Waves Gotik festival), the original Batcave instigators will headline the lurid frolics at the Embassy Club, (29 Old Burlington St, London W1S3AP) Also on the bill are original Batcavers Sexbeat, with DJs Hamish and Cavey Nick, cavorting from decks to decadence with the usual brutal, trouser-dropping surprises & suitably confronting & barbaric entertainment.
The 2009 Batcave will feature installations from exciting new artists of the ‘Dark London Underground’ and visuals from the upcoming ‘Welcome To The Batcave’ book, along with this year’s bitcrushed message from the creature in the Batcave Pram. All set in a spooky Bladerunner environment!
So dress to kill … prepare for a thrill & Expect the unexpected!
The Batcave will be open from 10pm till 3am. Tickets £15 available from www.ticketweb.co.uk and Resurrection Records.
More info at www.specimenbatcave.net
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