Band info
Band: SKOJ
Single: ‘More Krvi I: Zora sivog sokola‘
Released: April 11th, 2025
Genre: black metal
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Review
To say World War II was a rather complicated affair is one of the most obvious things ever. One thing basically everyone agrees, however, is that a large part of the reason for the Axis’s defeat, perhaps THE largest part, was the resistance of leftists across the world, from Soviet soldiers (despite the, to be diplomatic, mistakes of its Stalinist bureaucratic leadership) holding the German onslaught, to Chinese militants expelling the Japanese Empire’s hold on the continent, to – and this is our point here – antifascist activists in the dominated lands, such as the resisters and partisans of Italy and France. 
Something that is rarely mentioned, or very briefly so, however, is the resistance in OTHER countries, and especially in those countries that were sandwiched between the USSR and Nazi Germany – sadly, everything is usually thrown in the sack of “Eastern Europe” as Russian-expies with no distinct identity. Today, as SKOJ is again featured by ABMN, we call on you to remember, not only those who fought in former Yugoslavia – be they Croatians, Bosniaks, Serbs, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Kosovars, Macedonians, Roma, and yet others – but also those who gave their lives in Greece, and Bulgaria, and Hungary, and Romania, and Czechia, and Slovakia. The music presented in ‘MORE KRVI I: Zora sivog sokola‘, SKOJ ‘s first proper EP, which includes the two songs we already knew plus three other raw black anthems, is dedicated to those who crawled, and bled, and fought yesterday so we can stand as free women and men and enbies today – and WON. And so can WE win today!