Zrenjanin zove 09!

    Our second gig in Zrenjanin! The hometown of 90% of our band. :D The first thing we got excited about, was actually the stage! Because it was outdoors, and because it was bigger than the ones in clubs.     Personally, we are much more attracted to outdoor concerts with bigger stages. But! We love our audience also in clubs, don't get us wrong. It's just that playing on bigger stages gives us more space to jump, dance, rather than just stay in one place, play and sing. Just like having contact with the audience, we love having contact with each other. Playing while looking at the drummer and lip syncing songs together, and all those stuff bands do! 

    We had two rehearsals before that gig, and honestly, they were so bad. The sound system was poor and we even felt buzzing in our ears after both of them, but it is what it is. When we played on stage, we eventually realized that it payed off! 

    And the stage was amazing! Perfect lights, we even had fog machines. (Victoria doesn't really like them since she know it means no one would be able to see her 😂) but however, it felt amazing, because it makes you feel like one of those big bands we all listen to and watch their concerts on youtube, it even raised adrenaline in us so we gave, like, 150% of our emotions while playing, and it really felt awesome. 

    To me, personally, (Victoria), moments like these bring joy. And I'm sure that other feel the same, but I feel more comfortable when speaking just about my feelings and not just assuming how others felt. 😂     Somehow it makes me realize what the "point" of my life is, makes me realize I'm not alone and I have them, because to me, band is something even more than just a family, and makes me realize what I want to do in life and where I want to be. On stage. Playing.

    It was also the first time Milan joined us on our song Ruža iz groba. Obviously, he was the second vocal. And the song definitely became so much better after he joined, so we simply couldn't wait for him to learn other songs and fully join us as a full band member.

       That's exactly the point - we can't imagine our band without any of us. Yes, Andrea is our main singer and, like frontman, but all of us bring something special to our gigs and songs and we really couldn't replace anyone. 

    We closed the gig with our song Attention, which you can find on our channel and listen to demo version. And people told us that Ruža and Attention are the best ones. And we are really glad about that since they are our favorites too and we would like to go in that direction since we are finally finding our style and genre.

    After it, we listened to amazing bands who performed after us, TBK, Mist and Overdrive. Unfortunately we had to go before the last band, Gazorpazorp, performed but we are sure that they killed it as well!

    Shortly after that, the same people who organized that gig in Zrenjanin, called us to perform in Novi Sad on a second festival "Ljubav i Bes" (Love and anger).

Stay tuned!! ❤️ 

A little tour!

    This summer, we really felt like we were on tour! We just started a band and gigs just kept coming! We had amazing times in Belgrade, Zrenjanin, Smederevo, Zrenjanim again, Novi Sad and, for now, Kovačica!

      It wasn't exactly like a tour, since when you have it, you usually have gigs every night. We had gigs every or every other week. But this time, it happened to us that one night we were support for Raskid13 in Zrenjanin, and the day after we had a concert on Punk Festival in Club Fest in Belgrade! 

      As always, Victoria came to Zrenjanin so we were able to have some rehearsals before these gigs! That was the time we have finally fully practiced our new song Attention and were very hyped about it! And believe me when I say hyped (or excited)! Because totally randomly, on a rehearsal, we invented a breakdown in a song and speeded up the tempo! It probably sounds like nothing special, but you know that feeling when something you made/wrote, feels so good and you are so proud of yourself!

    Attention is one song we wrote a few months after we wrote all of our songs, so we could see that it was quite different. We are finding our style and we really like it, and we were so proud to see improvement!!

    We proudly performed it both nights and we are glad that audience liked it, they even made mosh pits!!

    Raskid13 singer, Slavko, invited us to play as a support for his second band which is Goatmare and the Hellspades. Which we are really honored to play, since Victoria really loves that band and she even wrote one of Affliction's song - Ruža iz groba (A graveyard rose)

    Quick interesting fact about how we wrote it: Andrea and Victoria were waiting for a bus early in the morning since they went to all 4 days of Exit Festival, and something on the bus station broke in a specific rhythm. They suddenly changed their instruments and while Victoria was singing a riff, Andrea came up with the idea of how to follow it on drums! And that's how we wrote one of our favorite songs! :D

    However, since its lyrics are romantic but also morbid, we dedicated it to Slavko because it was inspired by his lyrics for Goatmare, and it was one really wholesome moment 🥰

    We had a great time after both gigs, especially the first one where we enjoyed Raskid13 playing later and talking to them after the gig. Awesome people! To be honest, even before the gig, we wanted to ask Slavko if we could perform together with Goatmare. But when he asked us himself, we were unbelievably happy and we still can't wait to perform with them! 

    Punk Fest was also great, we were especially happy to play there since our first gig was in Club Fest and it will always have a special place in our hearts! Since we played with a lot of bands, we met a lot of new people, even did our first interview! And with this post, we want to thank Underground Svirke Srbija who sent us a whole recording of our gig! Thanks to that, we published that version of our song Attention, which you can find on our Youtube channel. 

🔥🥀Affliction na Zidiću! 🥀🔥

    Didn't know how to translate this to English :D but however, our second gig!

    Totally unplanned, we were like: "ok, we're gonna finish this gig in Belgrade, Milan and Andrea are going to come to my (Victoria's) hometown to hang out a bit and that's it.

    However, it wasn't like that! We stayed up till, like, 5am to talk about it and our new songs, dreaming about new gigs, although we didn't know how to organize them. And we didn't have to do it, because people called us!!! 

After we fell asleep, I woke up around 1pm to se 20 missed calls and even more messages. First I panicked, then I saw that our friend from band Nemesis was calling us to tell us that we are having a gig on 6th of August. I immediately woke both of them up and started screaming. Believe me when I say we didn't need our morning coffee to wake up mentally, this totally shook us :D

    It was 29th of July, and we had 8 days to prepare. Without our bassist, because he didn't have money to randomly come to another town for that long.

In the meantime, Milan and I got together and for us two, those were the best days 🥰

    Anyway! We had rehearsals everyday, in my room. With a cheap amp that was 10 times more quiet than the drums, so it was pretty hard to practice. And Milan and Andrea didn't even have microphones, so we just had faith that we would kill it on that gig. :D Also, when I showed them my new lyrics for a song, Andrea immediately wrote some riffs and a solo! 

    Even though our bassist wasn't there, we sent him a recording. And I must tell you that we have the best bassist ever, he had 5 days to learn that song and didn't even get to practice it with us before the gig! Someone give this man a crown! (or enough amount of money for his dream bass🤣)

While we were practicing for it, we got a call for another two gigs!! Which were 13th and 14th of August. We were so happy and unbelievably motivated and practice literally everyday for more than three ours!

    On that day, even tho the gig was at 8pm,we woke up at 6 so we could go to Belgrade with our friend Nadja. She wanted to make us Affliction tattoos, so we all had them matching!

    We rocked all of the songs, except that last one we had written just before the gig! :D although everybody said it was great, we are really self-critical when it comes to our playing and we didn't like it. Andrea forgot the lyrics, and my drums were falling apart and I couldn't just fix the cymbal stand in the middle of a song! xD 

    Tho it doesn't really matter, everybody has mistakes, even bigger bands, but we did make sure to improve and make that, as every other song of ours, as perfect as we could. And we really killed it on the next gig!

    I'm sorry I'm so slow, I'll try to keep up with our gigs so I can write about them quickly after because of the fresh impressions. :D so stay tuned for more often posts because we have more gigs scheduled and I, as a perfectionist, want to write about all of them! :D