Who are, actually, Affliction?
Andrea Radojčić
photo - Risto Delić
Andrea lives in Zrenjanin, Serbia, and she is 15 years old. She became interested in rock music when she was 11, since her father has been working with a lot of bands and musicians, and he became happy himself when he saw that his daughter was interested in his favorite music. He started going to gigs and concerts with her, kept meeting her with other musicians and, when she turned 12, he took her to "Dani piva" festival in their hometown. Instantly, she fell in love with the band that played that year, Overdrive. Before that, she had been listening to Ex Yu rock, Guns'n'roses, Pink Floyd, etc... and Overdrive's genre, hardcore, was completely new to her. Before their gig, she shyly approached Overdrive's singer and asked for a picture and that's how she got to meet him and fall in love with that kind of music. They are one of the main reasons why she started playing guitar, especially practicing nu metal, and that's how she became a big fan of bands like Korn, Slipknot, Fear factory, Pantera, Godsmack, etc..Milan Ružić
photo - Risto Delić
Milan was also born in Zrenjanin, Serbia, and is 20 years old. He started playing guitar when he was 14, but then stopped for 4 years and now is completely back on track and has a band. Three years ago, he also started singing and studying different vocal techniques, like screaming. He was into music since he was born, he was listening to rock, jazz and blues, but discovered metal when he was 11. His first favorite band was Bullet for my Valentine, but after that he switched to bands like Korn, Children of Bodom, Disturbed, Eyesburn, Hornsman Coyote and all kinds of sax jazz music mixes, also bands like Senshi and Overdrive... He met his best friend Andrea during a metal gig, and after that, 2-3 years later he also met Victoria. Since Milan and Andrea wrote "Bring the fear" together, when Andrea created Affliction with Victoria, she wanted to invite Milan as second vocalist and now they all agreed that Milan should be fully in the band, playing rhythm guitar and singing.
Laszlo Kocsis
Also living in Zrenjanin, Serbia, he has been playing bass for 4 years and had gigs all around Banat, in highschool, he took part in Youth choir and got to travel and perform in North Macedonia and Italy. This year, enrolled in the Academy of arts in Novi Sad, and he's also able to produce music in his home studio. He has been listening to metal since he was a kid, starting with Iron Maiden, Nightwish, Black Sabbath. Megadeth, etc. To start playing bass, he was inspired by Maiden's bassist Steve Harris, and now his biggest goal is to one day be able to play The Lesson by Victor Wooten.
Viktorija Milošević
photo - Risto Delić
Victoria is from Smederevo, Serbia, and she is 17 years old. She has been listening to rock and metal since she was 11, starting with bands like Nightwish, Evanescence, Black Veil Brides, etc. After that, she discovered Serbian metal scene and then she met Selena Simić and her band Nemesis, which was Victoria's biggest inspiration. Selena told her about Rock camp and of course since she was a drummer, Victoria also wanted to learn to play drums. She started playing drums on Rock camp for girls in 2017. After that, she had quickly bought her first drum set and continued to practice at home, with help from her mentor Selena. Meanwhile, Rock camp had been organising gigs and concerts, which she never missed, and that's how she got to sing in Kombank dvorana and play on Exit festival in 2019. The same year, film director Mina Petrović made a film about Victoria's life, drumming and about how Rock camp influenced her life. The film is called "Victoria, 15", was premiered on Beldocs festival 2020. and won special award on Dok'n'ritam festival. In the summer of 2019., she attended the International camp in Iceland, where she got to form a band with her friends from Ireland and Poland. In the year 2020., she participated in Kaliopi's Fan Art competition, where she got the Grand Prix award and she's now waiting to perform with her on stage twice. Now, next to Affliction, she's playing drums in allgirl punkrock band Replicunts.
Since we are all so happy to be able to play and have gigs together, we wanted to make something like "Affliction diary" where we can put all our gigs photos and write about all our gigs from our perspective, and we hope you will enjoy our journey as much as we do!!
