Biography
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.
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