The story of Rock`n`Roll made in Pula (and Istria)

This is a blog where you will find music from one of the richest rock-scene from Croatia, the city of PULA rock-scene.There will be some Istrian music too, as Istria is the region of Croatia to which Pula belongs to.You will find here how good and different was the Pula scene, with some of the bands recognised worldwide.

WELCOME TO PULA!

PS:All the infos about the bands are approximative, and will be changed with every useful info I get from the members of the bands!

PPS: Please notice that the NON-HIGHLIGHTED name of a certain release is a part of band`s audiography, but not available for download, for not having the permission or for respecting the authors rights. Or, of course, not yet in my possession.

Tuesday, 28 July 2009

BARRAKUDA (2005-2007)

A Hardcore`n`Roll band made by guys from the PulaHC scene, lasted for just a short time but recorded an interesting EP trilogy (three sixpacks= 666).The band included Jule from Anti Otpad/Bolesno Grinje/Eluj on drums.



ep "It`s A Horror" sixpack no.1 2005

ep "Knockout" sixpack no.2 2005

ep "31 x yeah" sixpack no.3 2005

Live At The Castle, Pula 2006

DUSTY MILLER (1996-2000)


A Grungy Metal band formed in the mid 90s and made of talented musicians.They released only one tape for the Adam Records label from Pula, and split after few years.The founder members, the Sinkauz brothers later formed the Jazz/Experimental band East Rodeo.


PULSKA GAREZ (1993-1996)


One of the bands of the Pula Grindcore movement which gave birth to a dozen of bands and various projects. Pulska Garez lasted relatively briefly, with just a live recording taken at one of the "Destroy The Melody" festivals through 1993 and 1994. This cassette became cult.


Wednesday, 22 July 2009

DISSECTION (1989-1993)


This is one of the first Technical Death-Metal bands in Croatia, and surely one of the best.They started as Dissection and lasted four years with that name, until they changed it to Aeon (because of the existance of the known swedish Dissection).



Live SKUC, Zagreb 18.06.1992

demo "Submit" 02.1993.

MENTALNI NERED (1985-1987)

Mentalni Nered is a cult band from Pula made of fans of extreme HC in the veins of Larm and similiar bands.the band existed few years and actually never made any serious recording and their whole existance was somehow not serious.But they became cult anyway, and no band thereafter had such noisiness and such impact as they did.


HATRöSS (1990-1997)

The band that went on where Devastation stops in 1990 (and that means, me again - in the pic, the one in the middle).It was a different musical style, more Thrash/Death Metal oriented in the beginning, and kind of darkened Death Metal by the end.The band played first as a trio, then a quintet, and then again as a trio.We released two demos and an official cassette, and in 1997. split-up for good.



demo "A Look At Tomorrow" (first mix) 1992

Monday, 20 July 2009

POPEYE (1998-2011)

This is a band with members from Pula and Vodnjan.They released their second full lenght album out just recently, and the band seem to be fully recovered from turbulencies in the past years.The band plays an interesting mixture of Metal and Rap, and the second album shows it with full power. Unfortunately, they disbanded around 2011.




THE BLEEDING (1993-1998)

Probably the best Doom Metal band from Croatia ever, and one of those bands who got to be known wider in the worlds underground circles.Formed by the ex-Devastation bassist Walter Udovicic, the band existed for the bigger part of the 90s with few line-up changes.



demo "Winter" 1994

demo "The Sad Bloom" 1994

demo "Promo 96" 1996

Friday, 17 July 2009

SUPER BOOSTER (2000-2007)

A great Stoner Rock band of brief existance, made of musicians from other bands like Headbanger and Gardenia. Touching the true sound of Stoner Rock.




demo "Gain" 2000

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

ATOMSKO SKLONISTE (1976- )

Atomsko Skloniste is the biggest and most known band that came out from Pula.There were also bands that became known, but not any band ever matched the popularity of AS.The band started in the period when Punk was the big blast in music, and AS played their stubborn Hard Rock to the bone, along with the (strange but actually painfully clever) lyrics by the poet Bosko Obradovic.The band had several clue moments in their 30+ years carreer, the first was when the original drummer Sasa Dadic left the band (late 1980) and was replaced by Zdravko Sirola. The second was when the band ended the collaboration with Bosko Obradovic (late 1981), and the bassist Bruno Langer started his songwriting job.The third and most important point was
the death of the vocalist Sergio Blazic-Djoser (January 18th 1987), who died of bone cancer at the age of 36.At that point, Zdravko Sirola and the guitarist Dragan Guzvan left the band and Bruno remained alone, so he started again very soon with a completely new line-up.After many line-up changes, the final line-up with Ranko Svorcan on guitar and Nikica Durakovic on drums.This trio recorded two studio albums and is still playing.Nikica left the band due to health problems in 2011 and is replaced by Stjepan Bobic. An album is scheduled for the near future ! AS has an american part of their carreer as Atomic Shelter.The album Mentalna Higijena is one of the five top-selling rock albums of all the times in Yugoslavia.
Update 2020: the band is still playing, the line-up changes with two new young members replacing Stipe and Ranko. The guitarist Matija is the grandson of the first band`s drummer Saša Dadić!!!

PS: the video is a playback based on two songs from the "Atomska Trilogija" live-album, IMHO the best ex-yu rock live album ever.

Atomsko Skloniste Wiki English

Atomsko Skloniste Wiki - Hrvatska

Atomsko Skloniste Wiki - Bosna