BAND OF THE DAY: DISHUMANITY

Anyone who's even remotely surprised that Serbia can be a breeding ground for absolutely fierce punk rock, doesn't understand the genre at all – the official opposition in parliament are a homophobic, hyper-nationalist straw man party created by Slobodan Milosevic to make himself look moderate, neighbouring Croatia produced one of the earliest grindcore bands in the form of the toxic and chaotic Patareni, a legacy of Titoist 'self-management' allows workers to occupy their own workplaces if they feel the beancounters aren't up to the job and, on top that, the punk scene in the former Yugoslavia was of such renown, that the list of bands who toured there in the '70s and '80s is like the index to one of those terrible punk history books. It's a perfect environment for discontent, in short.

So here we are in 2011 and raw d-beat trio Dishumanity are raging out of the central Serbian city of Kragujevac with twelve tracks of venomously spat crust on their 2010 full-length 'Radijacija' is a series of unpretentious jabs to the face, and is up to download here with the band's blessing. They've played alongside Wormrot, whose ongoing mission to grind the shit out of every corner of the planet even appears to include Serbia – which must have been a visa nightmare – and there's a split with some unnamed Dutch grinders primed for release any day now.