Well I was told that the 2nd Annathema LP was the rarest one with a pressing of 120 copies. But Dan`s story might be quite real I guess....Actually I have seen Rapid Force offered a few times as well...About the price, don`t take the price that wants the guy of Explosive Records as the real current price. For instance, if I recall right he sold the 2nd Annathema for 300 dollars as well, but on Ebay I got it for 20€!!!!!!!!!!!! The price of most Yugo LPs did fall....RNA wrote:Actually, guys, the best thing for me from former Yugoslavia was Rapid Force. t's a band of a former Heller guitar player Kosta Bogdanović. They released a demo in 1990 called "To Sky And Back". Fantastic US melodic thrash, something like Forbidden. In 1993 came their first album "Apotheosis Of War" which is the rarest damn vinyl in former Yugoslavia. I talked to the then bass player and he told me it was pressed only in 50 copies, although from another source I found out it was 150... but definitely not mroe than that. The only copy I've ever seen is in my posession. It was being sold by teh Explosive Records guys on ebay for a fixed price of 300 dollars. On this album they strayed away from the original style towards more groovy Pantera sound, but still retaining some of the old school sound. Recently their second album came out. Now they sound like an all-out Pantera copy.
Funny that no one mentioned Anesthesia from Zagreb. Pretty good band that released an album "Eye For An Eye" in 1993 on Croatia Records (former Jugoton). I have the CD version with one song more than the LP, but that song was released on vinyl as a promo 7" single without a cover.
About the music, I found the music on their LP ok, while the demo excerpts I heard were very impressive....
And about Anesthesia, their modern influences on the first LP kill my will to listen to it. Their 2nd album was a total desaster, some Alternative Rock....Yeah, that promo 7" contained two tracks that can be found on the first CD. I guess it was pressed in a quantity of 200 copies like the old Crna Udovica, Osmi Putnik and Legija promo 7"s...