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Podgorica (1997 – present)
Qtera started off as an underground teenage punk riot thought up by two high school students, Mladen Vujovic and Braco Subotic, and still is virtually the only alternative band in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica, and certainly the only still standing after having survived a decade on the unrewarding and practically inexistent musical scene.
In the mid 1990s on the territory of the two last standing debris of Yugoslavia - Serbia and Montenegro, not only did the embargo-ridden heavily sanctioned economy face decay, the music scene was on a dangerous low as well. This unfortunate trend has sadly taken deep roots in Montenegro, where even today trying to break the enchanted circle of ill-equipped entirely unsupported musicians is as effective as flogging a dead horse.
By 1997 angry teenagers have swamped the country over with garage-style punk formations that had a tendency to fall apart after a single gig.
Out of this vortex of countless teenagers high on pride, hormones, spite, and a variety of drugs, Qtera soon enough began to stand out as an actual harbinger of an alternative sound which Podgorica at the time lacked so much. Naturally, the beginnings were hard, involving improvised instruments and rehearsal spaces, and a constant turmoil among the members which led to frequent fluctuations in the line-up. At its earliest stage, the band had difficulties creating more than loose covers of Mudhoney and Nirvana songs, and their expression was an outburst of brute, unprocessed energy. Their consecrated influences from the start were (apart from the two aforementioned), Sonic Youth, The Stooges, Sex Pistols, Veruca Salt, Spacemen3 and many others.
In the mid 1990s on the territory of the two last standing debris of Yugoslavia - Serbia and Montenegro, not only did the embargo-ridden heavily sanctioned economy face decay, the music scene was on a dangerous low as well. This unfortunate trend has sadly taken deep roots in Montenegro, where even today trying to break the enchanted circle of ill-equipped entirely unsupported musicians is as effective as flogging a dead horse.
By 1997 angry teenagers have swamped the country over with garage-style punk formations that had a tendency to fall apart after a single gig.
Out of this vortex of countless teenagers high on pride, hormones, spite, and a variety of drugs, Qtera soon enough began to stand out as an actual harbinger of an alternative sound which Podgorica at the time lacked so much. Naturally, the beginnings were hard, involving improvised instruments and rehearsal spaces, and a constant turmoil among the members which led to frequent fluctuations in the line-up. At its earliest stage, the band had difficulties creating more than loose covers of Mudhoney and Nirvana songs, and their expression was an outburst of brute, unprocessed energy. Their consecrated influences from the start were (apart from the two aforementioned), Sonic Youth, The Stooges, Sex Pistols, Veruca Salt, Spacemen3 and many others.
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A Review for our ''Probably Snipers'' Ep (2007)
18 May 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/qteraplayssensless
''Recorded in the darkest age of Montenegro’s modern history,
when wars and inflation where roaming through like horsemen of the
apocalypse and when turbo folk music swallowed every artistic
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- A Review for our ''Probably Snipers'' Ep (2007) 18 May 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/qteraplayssensless
- Izvještaj sa koncerta - QTERA u klubu ''Treća Obala'' 16. Maja 2010. 17 May 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/qteraplayssensless
- Izvještaj sa koncerta - QTERA u klubu ''Treća Obala'' 16. Maja 2010. 17 May 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/qteraplayssensless
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