BJESOVI
U OSVIT ZADNJEG DANA
/Nightmare video spot/
Bjesovi (Serbian Cyrillic: Бјесови; trans. The Possessed) are a Serbian grunge/alternative rock band from Gornji Milanovac.
Formation and breakup (1985-1997)
The band's history began in the mid-eighties when two seventeen-year-olds, Zoran Marinković and Goran Marić Max, started writing for the famous Yugoslav rock magazine "Džuboks" under the names McCrywack & Max Radackow. At the same time, they began making some home demo recordings which led to the decision to form a band. The band was formed in 1989 under the name "Baader-Meinhof". After changing the name to "Saint Gallen" and later to "China Blue", the band got the name "Bjesovi" (by a Dostoyevsky book The Possessed). Marić and Marinković, both vocalists and lyrics/music authors, were backed by Predrag Dabić and Goran Filipović on guitars, Božidar Tanaskovic on bass and Goran Ugarčina on drums.
The band then won the Čačak Guitar Festival in 1989 and recorded their debut album U osvit zadnjeg dana ("At The Last Day's Dawn") released only on cassette on October 1990. Guest appearances featured Vladimir Vesović and Nikola Slavković on guitars and Dejan Marinković who provided narration on the track "On je sam" ("He Is Alone"). The album featured their version of Philippe Soupaults poem "Georgia" (Serbian "Džordžija") to which Zoran Marinković wrote the music, as well as the cover version af the Yugoslav beat band Tomi Sovilj i Njegove Siluete track "Vule Bule", which itself was a cover of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs' Wooly Bully. On the track "Zli Dusi" (Evil Spirits), the lyrics included lines from the Gospel of Luke and Pushkin poetry.
Reformation (2000-present)
On Spring 2000, Marinković, accompanied by two old members, Zoran Filipović (guitar on all three albums) and Miroslav Marjanović (drummer on the Untitled album) and two new members, Slobodan Vuković (guitar) and Dragan Arsić (bass) reformed the band. In the meantime, the Untitled album was re-released by One Records
Discography
[edit] Studio albums
* U osvit zadnjeg dana (Sound Galaxy, 1991)
* Bjesovi (ITV Melomarket, 1994)
* Sve što vidim i sve što znam (Metropolis Records, 1997)
* Bolje ti (PGP RTS, 2009)
[edit] Live albums
* Na živo (Metropolis Records, 2002)
[edit] Singles
* "Vreme je" / "Ime" (1994)
* "Dar" (2002)
* "Kad mi stane dah" (2002)
[edit] Video albums
* Live at KST, Belgrade 31.05.2003 (Self-released, 2003) - official DivX
* Bolje ti (PGP RTS, 2009) - album bonus DVD