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ANTIGAMA is the unruly and unrestricted projection of a noncomformistic attitude towards the avantgarde grindcore noise.The band was formed in the late 2000 in Warsaw (PL) by Sebastian Rokicki on guitars and Krzysztof Bentkowski on drums. Soon after they were joined by Lukasz Myszkowski on vocals and Macio Moretti on bass and recorded their first album "Intellect Made Us Blind", released shortly after.In September 2001 they went on a short tour Grind Manifesto along with Poland’s Damnable and Italy’s Brainwash.The bassman changed, as Michal replaced Macio. With such line-up the band recorded a split CD with Jan Fredericx’s (Agathocles) project, Jan Ag. ANTIGAMA’s part was a set of covers of their native hardcore precursors, Siekiera.Shortly after the band played at the Grind Manifesto Tour 2002 with Italy’s Nefas and Bastard Saints and Poland’s Pignation and Toxic Bonkers. In January 2003 ANTIGAMA recorded "Promo 2003”, a sample of the upcoming material. The CD consisted of 3 new songs and a cover of "Anything is mine" by Godflesh.July – ANTIGAMA put out the experimental material "East Clintwood", initially meant for a split CD with Japan’s Deranged Insane.In September the band took part in the 3rd edition of the Grind Manifesto tour together with Poland’s Third Degree and Pignation.Meanwhile, Antigama’s song "Fala" from "Intellect Made Us Blind" was remixed by the Italy’s electro/industrial band The Seed but the track remained unreleased until 2005.The year 2004 started with some shows and headlining the 10-gig Ten Day Grindcore Massacre Tour with Deformed.April – the band launched a split CD with Australia’s Open Wound via Antiself Records (PL).Soon after their next album – "Discomfort" for Extremist Records (USA) came out and was followed by surprisingly good reviews. The second full-length album was recorded and engineered by Szymon Czech at Selani Studio in Olsztyn (PL).In June ANTIGAMA recorded 6 new songs for the 3-way split CD with Third Degree and Herman Rarebell; it was released via Selfmadegod Records (PL).Then the band played at the Obscene Extreme Festival 2004 in Czech Republic, the biggest extreme music festival in Europe. 2005 had been the crucial year in ANTIGAMA’s early career, as in March they recorded their highly anticipated third full album “Zeroland” for Selfmadegod Records (PL).April – Selfmadegod re-released ANTIGAMA’s “Discomfort” with bonus song and the video for ‘Flies”.Shortly after came out the long-awaited 7” split shared with Italy’s Bastard Saints.In August Selfmadegod Records together with Fast And Furious Records (Hol) launched the 12” vinyl LP version of “Discomfort”.Early September – ANTIGAMA played at the Giants Of Grind festival in Germany along with the bands like Mesrine, Deppression, Mastic Scum, Jigsore Terror – to name a few.On November the 1st 2005 Selfmadegod Records (PL) put out their “Zeroland”. The third full-length album received very enthusiastic press worldwide.March 2006 – the band played at the biggest Polish metalfest Metalmania in Katowice.In April 2006 ANTIGAMA went to Germany to play at the Grindcore Syndicate Tour 2006 along with the country’s native Keitzer.Soon after the band signed the official recording agreement with Relapse Records (USA) and started working on their new full-length album.June 2006 – thanks to Deformeathing Prod. the band launched „Roots Of Chaos”, the long-awaited split CD with Deformed. The material consists of one 12-minute experimental track “Psicobambola”.The latest full-length album “Resonance” for Relapse Records (USA) was recorded and produced by Szymon Czech in December 2006 at Studio X in Olsztyn.In March 2007 ANTIGAMA issued a 3” split CD with Drugs of Faith (USA) through Selfmadegod Records, with 2 new tracks and their own interpretation of the horror classic “Zombi” by Goblin.The first material out by Relapse Records (USA) was recorded at Studio X and released at a 7” split in limited edition of „Slimewave Series” with Brazil’s Rot.“Resonance” was launched in May 2007.Soon after came another releases: a 7” split with Pig Destroyer and Coldworker and a Japanese edition of “Resonance” with the bonus song “Zoom”.July – ANTIGAMA played a gig at Warsaw’s Aurora Club together with the improv/ experimental artist Anna Zaradny; soon after they played at the open-air Warsaw’s Tory (Railway) Festival under a train bridge.In October they toured Poland with native bands Nyia and Blindead at the Mind Eaters Tour 2007.Soon after they issued a new split CD with Nyia for Selfmadegod Records. In 2008 they started composing a new material while supporting Polish gigs of Today Is The Day, Jucifer and Dying Fetus among others.At present they have changed the line-up, already composed the material for the new release and look only forward to the future. Antigama is controlled chaos.FULL DISCOGRAPHY: "Sweet Little Single" promo MCD 2001 "Intellect Made Us Blind" CD (The Flood) 2002 "Siekiera/Destination Death" split CD w/ JAN AG (Dywizja Kot) 2003 "Promo 2003" promo MCD 2003 "Discomfort" (Extremist Records) 2004 split CD-R w/ DERANGED INSANE (Mortville) 2004 split tape w/ ELYSIUM (Vendredi 13) 2004 split CD w/ OPEN WOUND (Antiself) 2004 3-way split CD w/ THIRD DEGREE and HERMAN RAREBELL (Selfmadegod) 2004 7" split w/ BASTARD SAINTS (Antiself) 2005 "Discomfort" CD (Reissue w/ bonus track and video) (Selfmadegod) 2005 "Discomfort" LP (Selfmadegod/Fast&Furious) 2005 "Zeroland" CD (Selfmadegod) 2005 "Roots Of Chaos" split CD w/ DEFORMED (Deformeathing Prod.) 2006 7" split w/ ROT "Slimewave Series" Vol. 3 (Relapse) 2007 3" split CD w/DRUGS OF FAITH (Selfmadegod) 2007 "Resonance" CD/LP (Relapse) 2007 7" split w /PIG DESTROYER & COLDWORKER (Relapse) 2007 "Resonance" CD w/ bonus track (Relapse Japan) 2007 split CD w/ NYIA (Selfmadegod) 2007

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Member Since: 11/23/2005
Band Website: antigama.net
Influences: Lots of different noise...
Sounds Like: antigama
Record Label: Relapse Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

ANTIGAMA RECORDING NEW ALBUM + SICK DRUMMER FEATURE

Warsaw ANTIGAMA have entered the studio this weekend to record their as-yet-untitled fifth full length, and second album for Relapse Records.   "Resonance" follow-up is being recorded in the...
Posted by ANTIGAMA on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:14:00 PST

SLIMEWAVE 7 Series To See CD Release

Relapse Records will issue a CD release of the entire SLIMEWAVE 7" series with exclusive bonus material on September 2nd (September 8th internationally). The SLIMEWAVE series was a collection of si...
Posted by ANTIGAMA on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:38:00 PST

THE LINE-UP CHANGES + NEW ALBUM UPDATE

After eight years of grinding Lukasz "Lucas" Myszkowski has left the band. Due to his job, personal issues and other things he decided to quit. We wish Lucas only the best and fully respect his decisi...
Posted by ANTIGAMA on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:47:00 PST

NEW "OLD" SHIRT DESIGN AVAILABLE AGAIN

Antigama's Kill Baby Kill! t-shirt design is available again in various sizes (M, L, XL) and colours (khaki and brown). Also, badge pack (4 buttons) and patches are in. Check Selfmadegod Records store...
Posted by ANTIGAMA on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:43:00 PST

ANTIGAMA LAUNCHES OFFICIAL NORTH AMERICAN WEBSTORE

Good news to all our North American fans!  The band has teamed up with Ohio's Indie Merchandising to launch official US webstore. From now on most of Antigama releases are easy to get plus comple...
Posted by ANTIGAMA on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:32:00 PST

OFFICIAL YOU TUBE CHANNEL LAUNCHED

 Our official You Tube channel has finally been launched at this location: www.youtube.com/antigamaofficial At present there is "Flies" video clip, two footages from "Resonance" release party and...
Posted by ANTIGAMA on Thu, 22 May 2008 03:14:00 PST

"RESONANCE" ON THE 3RD PLACE OF THE BEST POLISH METAL ALBUMS OF '07

  We are joyful to announce that "Resonance" album has been chosen by Polish internet community as third the best Polish metal album of 2007. Our fourth full length released in May last year via ...
Posted by ANTIGAMA on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:57:00 PST

NEW SPLIT REVIEW FROM WWW.CRUCIALBLAST.NET

ANTIGAMA / NYIA split CD split CDSelfmadegod Where in the hell did this split come from? I didn't even know that it was in the works until Selfmadegod told us about it at the beginning of November, a...
Posted by ANTIGAMA on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:09:00 PST

AFTER THE TOUR + SPLIT CD W/ NYIA

We are back from Mind Eaters Tour (with Nyia and Blindead) that went very smoothly. Big thank you to everyone who has shown up on the gigs and supported us. Definitely we had perfect time. Apologies ...
Posted by ANTIGAMA on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:10:00 PST

HEADLINING POLISH TOUR W/ NYIA, BLINDEAD AND TEHACE

Listen up everyone! Finally after years of tour-absence on Polish ground we are happy to announce 9-gig journey with our long-time friends Nyia out of Olsztyn. The tour is called "Mind Eaters Tour" an...
Posted by ANTIGAMA on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:56:00 PST