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the best italian hardcore-punk
band
since 1988, against all odds!
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MAB are:
Esther: drums and vocals
Fulvio: guitar and vocals
Max: bass guitar and vocals
Gab: guitar and vocals
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The band's history
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MAB (Michail
Aleksandrovic Bakunin) was born in January 1988 in
Arona, Italy, from the ashes of a '77 punk band named "Bunker",
and in 1988 they recorded their first 2 demo-tapes:
"Si, c'č l'alternativa!" (English title: "Yes, there's an
Alternative!"), and "Cavie del Sistema" (We are the System's
Guinea Pigs), an angry, raw beginning that resembles the English and Italian
hardcore bands of the early 80's (Wretched, Agnostic Front, Disorder, Chaos UK,
Broken Bones).
Toward the end of 1989 MAB changed their bass player and produced their third demo-tape:
"Chiesa Puttana" (Church is a bitch!). This demo (as always
self-produced) gained an outstanding audience at the 1990 edition of the
"Anticlerical Meeting" in Fano, Italy.
From '91 to '93
MAB was a trio with Max (bass and vocals), Fulvio (guitar and vocals)and Esther
(drums and vocals). With this new line-up the band engraved "Farņ del mio
peggio" (I'll do my worst), the fourth demo-tape that gave the band
excellent reviews from the Italian music press (Metal Shock, some underground
zines) and further occasions to play live in some squats (Leoncavallo in Milan,
El Paso in Turin, C.S.Agrrro in Treviso) and almost everywhere in northern Italy.
In January 1993, MAB changed their line-up (from 3 to 4 members, with Gab as new
guitar player) just after having recorded 9 new songs. 7 of them where included
in "Barricate" (Barricades), the first 7inch vinyl production from
MAB. MAB's songs of that period talked about social diseases, personal
problems, anthems against state oppression and church, and also treated
problems like drugs, racism, vivisection, italian mafia, war in the Eastern
Countries in a deeper way than before.
8th of April, 1995: MAB's self-production "Barricate" finally sees the light!
Side A: Europa - Pellicce
WWF - Mangiavano i bambini
Side B: Barricate - Mississipi Burning - Cinghialone - Dimmi chi
sei ora
MAB often played live for
"Barricate" promotion (the LP has been spread by the band throughout
Italy), and always reaching a remarkable success. Among the best live acts
of the 1995/1996 period, we remember Treviso (once more
in the fantastic Agrrro squat!!! Wonderful people, down there!), the
"C.S.O. Fantasma" squat in Bergamo (but now police has kicked them
out of there... bad luck!), "Delta House" in Turin, "C.S.
Vittoria" squat in Milan and some other places in Mandello sul Lario
(Como), Gallarate, Busto Arsizio and Varese.
In September 1996 MAB record 2 new songs,"Preservativo
Rosso (Red Condom)" and"Giubileo
(Jubilee)". "Giubileo", an ironic hardcore song
against the year 2000 christian catholic Jubilee of the Vatican State, in Rome,
has been included in the CD-compilation "No stars featuring" produced
by the Social Cooperative "Il Melo" in Gallarate.
At the end of August 1997, MAB recorded 3 other new songs and produced them on
another demo-tape called "Spengo lo Show!" (I turn off the Show!).
The tape includes "Lotterņ da solo" (I'll fight alone), about the
human desolation at the end of this century, "E' colpevole uguale"
(He's guilty the same), against vivisection and stray dogs traffic from Italy
to Germany, and "Spengo lo Show!" (I turn off the Show!) about war in
Somalia and against mass-media power.
MAB: their complete self-produced discography
1988: Si, c'e' l'alternativa! (Yes,
there is an Alternative!)
1988: Cavie del Sistema (We are the System's Guinea Pigs)
1989: Chiesa Puttana! (Church is a bitch!)
1991: Faro' del mio Peggio (I'll do my worst)
1995:Barricate (Barricades)
1996:Giubileo
(Jubilee) into the CD-compilation: "No stars featuring"
1998: Lotterņ da solo (I will fight alone) into the
CD-compilation "No stars featuring - part 2"
1999: Our first CD, “Giubileo” (Jubilee)
2001: the second CD, “La
guerra Infinita” (Never Ending War)!!!!! 10US$ + 5$ for shipping+handling
- Our tapes cost US$ 4 each,
plus US$ 3 for shipping + handling. The same for "Barricate" 7inch.
- "No Stars Featuring"
part 1 and 2, CD Compilation with some of the best italian punk, hardcore,
metal, grunge bands cost US$ 12 each plus US$ 3 for shipping + handling.
We accept only e-mail orders at the address you find above.
Remember that we don't sell our records in order to make a profit out of it,
but just for keep on financing our future productions in a total independent way.
* Support self-production, support MAB!! *