YU Metal Attack 1989.

YU Metal attack free ticket 1989 , Novi Sad , Yugoslavia invitation

## History

Yu Metal Attack was one of the first heavy metal festivals in former Yugoslavia.

first heavy metal festival that was held outdoors at the skating area of the sports center of Vojvodina in city of Novi Sad ( todays Serbia )

Before this ,  first Heavy Metal Festivals in former Yugoslavia were in Sarajevo in 1987. and 1988. taking place in indoor concert hall CDA

## Preparation

After returning from the army in 1988. Konstantin Polzovic was workin hard with his brother Aleksandar on publishing Explosive fanzine

and publishing the first album for band Annathema in Panonia Concert label.

Since the Panonia concert was registered and legal, Konstantin Polzovic made a deal with their owner Dragan Velkovski Django about organising a bigger outdoor event with many bands.

Idea was to put at least dozen nest new and excited metal bands from Yugoslavia at that time and put them on one stage on one evening event;

And the whole promotion and presentation of the event was going through Explosive fanzine distribution , with flyers , ads and posters.

## Organisation

Panonia concert was contracting venue and sound and stage company Jan Audio from Kisac  , Konstantin Polzovic was dealing with bands and Aleksandar Polzovic with promotion Explosive fanzine

Date has been chosen as saturday before national holiday - 29th april 1989.

Tickets were sold  via mail order , beside records and cassettes along the whole former Yugoslavia in Explosive records distribution.

also some tickets were given as a gift with the order of the records.

Each band also granted a few tickets for their family and closest friends.

Total of 10 bands were announced with a tight schedule.

but at the end Bombarder was Sarajevo was added to lineup so total was 11 bands.

Nobody ever before in Yugoslavia managed to have so many bands on stage same evening

## Day of the concert:

Since early in the morning groups of heavy metal fans were coming from bus and train station towards venue .

Before 3 pm almost 1000 people as already ready to enter .

Inside preparations were late , with technical problems and various delays sound checks of few bands were canceled but only Annathema did line check .

Beer , muffins , records and tapes were sold at venue and everything was sold out in only few hours , leaving all visitors depending only on water from toilets . It was a mess.

Start of the program was already delayed when the first band came into stage , Anesthesia from Belgrade .

Instead keeping scheduled time , amplifiers and sound must be turned off to force them to leave the stage in front of many chanting metal fans who were coming.

Order of others bands performing :

Taurus

Hellior

Scarlet

Demoniac

Bombarder

Heller

Pergament

Annathema

Griva

Divlje Jagode

No video recordings from event exist;

## After

Estimated total of 2000 people attended and they all left happy and with unique experiences which all who are still alive remember today.

Some negative reviews were given in local newspapers regarding bad organisation - not respecting schedule and behaviour of some members from audience who were vomited and urinating outside toilets .

But those negative comments just strated opposite - people were satisfied and bands were excellent and everyone wanted event to happen again .