We’re proud to bring you the first vinyl edition for Pásmo's mesmerizing debut self-titled album (originally released in spring 2024 on cassette by the Czech label Vřesová Studánk), an unparalleled voyage crafted through the mediums of dark post-punk and arcane heavy metal into the remote landscapes and mystique of the fading ex-soviet Eastern Bloc.
Eight songs unraveling visions of soviet industrial ruins, abandoned factories, and dissolving concrete buildings scattered amongst the band’s native Moravian-Silesian region's wild nature, and consumed far beyond, eastward more into the relics of the old Soviet horizon reclaimed by nature and falling into dusty memory. An encompassing of Eastern European culture condensed into thirty five minutes of dark musical storytelling and spiritual reconnection to the "Zone" (or "Pásmo", in Czech). The epic crust punk of Amebix and Killing Joke's apocalyptic post-punk transposed into the crumbling atomic bunkers, abandoned mines, and industrial rusted ruins of the Eastern wilderness. The visions, sounds and legacy of Chernobyl and "Stalker" transfigured into shamanic mountain rock music. Echoes of Master's Hammer's occult heavy metal reverberating through abandoned factories, streams, valleys and waterfalls. Yugoslavian long-lost punk and metal, gipsy punk like VHK/Galloping Coroners, Belarusian dark post-punk like Molchat Doma and Russian melancholic new wave like Kino dissolving into a frenzied sonic continuum where infectious melodies celebrating a cherished birthplace are woven into a dark canvas of stark history and ominous memories from the past, embracing sinister presages from the present and future, coming once again into the Zone from beyond the Russian borders...
Pásmo's debut self-titled album will be officially released April 18 2025 on vinyl and digital formats worldwide and is now pre-orderable and streamable in full via all our channels.
"Pásmo", meaning "Zone" in Czech, or a place of rigorous uniqueness sculpted into its form by decades of crumbling geopolitical and industrial power, wild nature reclaiming its place, and ancient local culture and lore. The name chosen for their band by Czech multi-instrumentalists Jan Sludged Pospíšil and Piotr “Ježura“ Beskyd, is a homage to and celebration of their place and roots, narrated through the eyes of two self-described "backwoods stalkers" who are one with their culture, origins, and place, or what they call the "Zone", the Moravian-Silesian region, one of the poorest regions in Czechia, immersed in majestic mountains and valleys with beautiful nature and folk culture contrasted by the vestiges of Gottwald's soviet industrialization of the region. "Nature, punk, and Metal" as the duo summarizes their music. Their own heritage and culture woven into both western dark punk, and eastern darkwave and post-punk influences to create the ultimate musical journey through their own origins and those of their ancestors. This mystical and profound connection to both their origins and influences sanctioned the birth of Pásmo around 2023, with music entirely composed, arranged and self-recorded within the beloved enclosure of the Moravian-Silesian hills and mountains, and first seeing the light as the self-titled debut album, released in spring 2024 on cassette by the Czech label Vřesová Studánka, and now finding its first ever vinyl release via Sentient Ruin to be discovered and appreciated far outside and beyond the confines of the unique place and history it was birthed in.