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SIEKIERA - Atak ‘84 (bootleg, Poland ‘98)
One of the most important & most known bands from second wave of punk in Poland. Started 82 in small town Pulawy on east of PL. They played only 6 gigs in orginal legendary line-up with Tomasz “Budzy” Budzynski on vocal - in Jarocin fest etc. Last one they played as support with TZN Xenna and Youth Brigade in Warsaw in 84. Budzy started Armia with Robert Brylewski (ex-Brygada Kryzys) and very quickly released great 7″EP posted somewhere on this site and 2 good LPs. Armia is still active but haven’t too many connections with HC punk scene. Budzynski also have another band 2TM2,3 (christian rock) and 2 years ago released CD with band BUDZY & TRUPIA CZASZKA (musically very similar to old Siekiera but with lyrics written by… jesuit monk from Middle Ages, as I know). Not my cup of tea. After mentioned last gig Siekiera started to play cold wave/post punk and if you like this kind of music (as me) try to find their EP and LP “Nowa Aleksandria” both released 85/86. LP is till today available on CD version and is very easy to find, even in supermarkets. Siekiera existed till 87. But we are interested in the past… Siekiera (1st punk line-up) released only 2 songs on famous “Fala” compilation 84LP. Till today you can find their music only on tapes (and SLSK records) with demo which they recorded in 84 or their live shows. The only one vinyl outfit is bootleg EP released in Canada (as I know by person from Mexican Power Authority) in late 90s (98?) which is posted here. 8 brutal & fast trax which are amazing and one of a kind. Hard to imagine how they wrote those songs, I’ve heard that they tuned guitars on their own way!!! Lyrics are very dark, gloomy, pesimistic poetry hard to translate to other language than Polish although they are on topics like war, destruction etc. Songs are from their demo, “Fala” LP & live from Jarocin 84. Quality is not the best but it’s quality of most old Polsh stuff. This bootleg is the most expensive Polish HC/Punk 7inch in Poland, Ive seen one on auction for 150PLN (+/- 50USD). Enjoy it!
Tracks
Niosac Wronie Serca
Burek Dobry Pies
Atak
Fala
Siekiera
Zabij Ty
Rana Kluta
Wojowniku Zabij Ich
Posted by: fakir69

















never heard music from poland before. love its raw and speedy riffs. great post.
Rhaaa ! Polish HC, raw and abrasive the way i lov eit… their “Summmer ‘84″ demo is a bomb, remember the polish guy whom i get it from told me they were sort of DRI over there, not false… hopefully they weren’t alone making that kind of noisy fast thrash, many eastern countries had raw hardcore bands, despite the difficult conditions of this era.
Never understood how Siekiera went to do new wave after making such uncompromising noise, and why the singer became such a stupid brainwashed asshole.
So damn good!!! I Can never have enough of this RAW shit from third world countries in my life.
More please!!!!!!
Thanx for comments, as I remember when Siekiera was active nobody known DRI in Poland, they were sort of GBH/Exploited/Discharge over here. First bands inspired by DRI etc. in Poland were The Corpse or Nadzor and they started circa 86/87. And cool to know that I live in 3rd world, I always thought 3rd world is Sri Lanka, Afganistan, Guatemala or Africa not Europe.
Great 7″ and indeed their demo is a masterpiece.I got some copies of this 7″ for myself and some friends years ago from Nict Nic Nie Wie label.didn’t know this record goes for so much money these days.
Poland is not a 3rd world country,Surly, but an ex-soviet union satellite state and now part of the European Union.Most Eastern european countries are not on the same level,socially and economically,as the Western ones, but this is changing,although Poland now has a conservative catholic rightwing government.
Can someone post this demo that everyone’s talking about?
fakir69, i discovered that tape in the late 90s, so then the comparaision with DRI was more accurate than GBH, but surely back then Siekiera were more inspired by UK HC bands. When i discovered Nadzor the comparaison then was more Cryptic Slaughter. It’s like here in France, Heimat-los at their debuts could be compared to early Mob 47 or again DRI, but back then they haven’t heard those bands yet, or were just releasing they weren’t alone making that brand of fast-core.
I think I’ll post SIEKIERA demo when punktapes.com will start, but I have some more Polish 7inches to post. By the way, when tapes will run I will find more great stuff from Poland cos many great bands like Moskwa, Karcer, ID, Red Star, Ustawa O Mlodziezy, Magister Z Wycieta Przysadka Mozgowa, Tabes, Processs, Brzytwa Ojca, SKTC, Trybuna Brudu, Nadzor, The Corpse, Destruktor, Insekty Na Jajach, Defekt Mozgu etc. existed only on cassettes and I have tons of them, also many great music from other ex-socialistic countrys. See ya in the future! And check out my new band CASTET- http://www.purevolume.com/castet, hah….!
polish punk in the 80ties was very genuine
not so shitty as today and everywhere
by the way polish punk was anti commie scum, we had martial law in Poland in 1981 and we didnt like russians
it’s funny i bod this bootleg on auction for 160 zl but the gay who was selling this ask 5 zl (it’s less then 1 dollar) after 5 days hi get 160 and then hi call me and was asking what special about this ? haha IT”S REALLY SPECIAL
GR
this demo is the best polish recording ive ever heard… really.
Seek and Destroy… how can u say that the guy is brainwashed bastard??? how can you accuse anybody without ever meeting him that he is brainwashed. I dont agree with most christian people, but you have to be either very very clever that u know people alhtough you didnt meet them or (and more probably) just not clever at all. strange person…
dude shit in america we think shits hard singin about broke as hell and police brutality and all the usual shit haha but damn marshall law? thats some shit to get pissed about. is there like a city or something with a good scene in poland? i might be making a trip son to see some family and check out my roots and all that dumb american shit but itd be cool to hit up a few shows like this
thanks for this i love poland punk
i was looking for siekiera for a long time
peace
ray ss