Big thanks to Jonas Granvik for making me aware of this debacle.
Skitsystem formed in Gothenburg in 1994 and were perhaps best known internationally for once having Tompa Lindberg (Disfear/At The Gates) behind the mic. No big loss though, since the band made their best album (2006's Stigmata) without him. Although 2001's Enkel Resa Till Rännstenen is quite the ass-ripper as well.
The band parted ways in 2007 after a disastrous gig in Poland, during which everyone but singer/bassist Alex Höglind were so stupendously hammered they could barely make it through a single song. They ended up fighting on stage and storming off into the night. I could've sworn four chords and a d-beat was the one type of music you could play nearly unconscious and no one in the audience would be able to hear the difference.
Regardless of how tragicomical they were after a few bottles of cheap Polish vodka, it was an unfitting end to a great band. However, Skitsystem reunited last year and have gigs booked for 2010.
A very kind soul uploaded a video of the whole Poland gig (all eighteen minutes of it) and boy what a trainwreck it is - like one of those "shreds" videos on YouTube unfolding for real before your eyes.
"You know what 'Skitsystem' means? It means 'shit'! And that's what we are!"
(mp3) Skitsystem - Maktens murar rasar
Available on Profithysteri (1995)
(mp3) Skitsystem - Dödsmaskin
Available on Ondskans Ansikte (1996)
(mp3) Skitsystem - Skrivet i blod, ristat i sten
Available on Grå Värld/Svart Tankar (1999)
(mp3) Skitsystem - Snutstat
Available on Enkel Resa Till Rännstenen (2001)
(mp3) Skitsystem - Apokalypsens svarta änglar
Available on Stigmata (2006)
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