Here's one for ya...
My band comes from a country that used to belong to communist part of Europe.
We looked at West with some hope and admiration and hoping some day we'll be part of it...
Several good bands came to be and some survived until today. My band Sarcasm is the oldest active thrash band in Slovenia (est. 1987)

Now the funny part.
Nowadays Europe is open for us and surprise surprise - domestic metal is no longer interesting. We get no radio air time, no television. We're more Underground today than in the years when we were outlaws just for having long hair... (I'm speaking generally, not just my band)

You guys being in the UK, you're in the centre of attention, but still - do you have a feeling that people dig foreign bands more just because they are foreign? Does that happen in UK too?

I mean - my band doesnt stand a chance at home anymore. But one idea is coming to my thoughts - buy an Easyjet ticket to London, go to Camden Lock, turn the stereo to max, let 'em hear some thrash, and sell my stuff?
'Coz I'm really thinking about doing it. From March till end of June we sold 12 fuckin' albums in Slovenia. WTFF? (I added another 'fuckin' in wtf). If I sell only 10 albums I can pay for the bloody air ticket to UK. (and If I sell another 10 I can afford the bus from Stansted to Camden Lock)

Tell me wot you think - are we really worth selling only 12 albums in 4 months? Give me some feedback.
www.myspace.com/sarcasmslovenia (here's the complete album)
www.sarcasm-band.com (here's us)

Hey bro

let me introduce myself
they call me BK, I'm hanging around in UKthrash for years
but I'm not British, I'm CHINESE, I born and live in HK, China
internet and forum is a funny place
we now get to chatting over here

about your Band,
I don't know if other bros over here know about you,
but let me tell you, I know Sarcasm,
and I know you guys are the oldest thrash metal band from your country
I really do

I don't know how's the metal scene over your country
but I know and bought album of Negligence
so I think there still have some metalheads from Slovenia?

I'm terribly sorry heard about u feel so down and your albums sells
but if you want some strength and faith and support whatever
let me tell you,

me, a thrasher from China,
I have your album,
I got that On parole Pro. 2002 reissue of Igra Narave + Crematory
in this world,
I believe, there have some crazy thrashers like me
like Sarcasm, buying Sarcasm

don't be upset bro, music is never an easy path

I'm glad to have a chance to talk with you,
and sorry about your situation,

I hope u guys can make it
if you can get to UK, you should give it a shot
see if people over UK would love your music

you guys are great, you don't deserve selling 12 copies in 4 months

all hail to thrash metal, stay true stay real!

Well, what can I say...
Maybe I should really pack my bags and go see the world...
There's Sarcasm fans in Hongkong!
What-the-awesome-fuck!!!

We have bands struggling over here, but sooner or later they lose the will to fight. This year was particularly bad. Many bands disbanded. We've had huge economic crisis for the past 2 years. Gigs became next to impossible. Very few clubs that take metal bands and this year another huge blow - the No. 1 Slovenian underground club was shut down...
But we stay. We're the cockroaches. We chose to be this way... It's frustrating sometimes, but it is awarding.
Your answer is one of those bright moments that keep us going.
Thanks bro.
You got me going for the next 5 years for sure

Tell me what you think of our new songs on myspace (link somewhere above in the first post)

I'm checking out those new songs,
it's nice, easy going music,
quite different from the old stuff

maybe I'm some kind of very old school minded guy
I prefer the old, Crematory style
especially old vocal : )

so could u tell me who are you chatting with me in here?
which member from the band? I would like to know

I will try and check out your stuff this weekend, my pc at work can't play sound so I need to do it at home!
Come to London!!! There's alwasys metal heads hanging out by the lock!

Aw, sorry for not replying to you, i wuz away for a whie... Ah, I'm Mucy, the singer.
Old-crematory-school is what we do now. We've been lost for a while, looking for ... hm... a definition od ourselves. What is Sarcasm music? Whak kind of music IS Sarcasm. What is our sound?
Sarcasm had many lineup changes, because military service was mandatory in Yugoslavia. So each year the band lost someone and gained someone else. And the sound changed. The first Sarcasm team was "Crematory Team", whose finest hour was a gig with Motorhead (co-headliners, not just a warm-up band). In early 90's there was the second team, we call it 'The Eclipse Team' which is reponsible for the best gigs with Slayer, Kreator, Sepultura. At this time Sarcasm was one of the greatest Yugoslav thrash metal bands, played regularly in front of thousands. Then 90's struck, everything went down.
I joined the re-united "Creamtory Team" at around 2000, replacing the original singer who became too lazy, too fed up, too old, who knows.
We had lots of trouble finding ourselves until one of the "Eclipse Team" returned to the band, guitarrist Klemen. Since then we're back in business, thrashing more and more, faster and faster and today we can call ourselves "Something To Believe In Team" because that's who we are and we intend to keep it that way. It's a combination of the first two teams and some new & energetic folks (new drummer and bass player). We have new songs coming up, this time in Slovenian, just to annoy everyone and to let the world hear our strange little language.


Hey, by the way, speaking of UK scene... Who do I turn to if I want my band promoted in the underground circles & get some gigs around 'ere?