ZMAR / MALIŠA BAHAT - split (2019) - 7" EP

Band................................Zmar/Mališa Bahat
Album..............................split
Year.................................2019
Genre..............................screamo hc
Format.............................vinyl, EP
Country............................Czech R./Croatia
Web.................................youtube, bandcamp
Label................................Catfish Records, Mad Schnauzer Records, Dingleberry Records and Zegma Beach Records

well, 7” are somehow out of fashion lately but I still like them and from time to time buy some, mostly the ones which are on some way special to me.. I remember buying this in one of the rare gigs I have been on since pandemic started and one of only few that happened, actually, in this period of all the possible restrictions, in Varaždin from the old friends from Mališa Bahat when both bands from this split were playing among some others, and that was kind of promotional weekend for this record (the other day the same bands were playing in Zagreb)..
friendship between those two bands from Czech R. and Croatia lasts for already some time now (I remember that I first time hear for Zmar when they played in Novi Marof back then in 2018) and since then they played few summer gigs together here in Croatia, two years in a row and split release was somehow natural and logic result of this friendship and collaboration..
this is released by the end of 2019, just in time Mališa Bahat went on Malaysia and Singapore tour, by Catfish Records, Mad Schnauzer Records, Dingleberry Records and Zegma Beach Records, pressed on 300 pieces, all on black vinyl..
both bands are represented with brand new songs for this split, previously unpublished anywhere else.. On Zmar side only two songs (but in overall almost twice longer than Mališa’s three) of blackened emo hardcore/screamo, full of despair and suffering.. first song “Vytratit Se” is slow atmospheric and epic monster which suck you in slowly and you just wait for your bones to be crushed into the fragments of nothingness.. the second one “Jaro” is something faster in the first part but still somehow in the same tone as first when it slows down by the end and finished just on time to not become boring.. but if you want speed just flip the vinyl on the other side..
Mališa Bahat opens with great "Jesi Li Siguran?", extra fast and chaotic screamo attack with, in one part, dual vocals, to me the best their song including all previous releases.. second “What’s Said is Said” is also great and even faster but somehow more epic, in style of Ekkaia and the likes.. and for the end the shortest one “Fever Dreams” which is kind of in other tone and more melodic than the others and somehow don’t fit for the closing of record, you just expect more, and it’s already over..

in overall, short, but sure full of emotions and power recordings..    
all together comes on simple black vinyl with typical for the genre front cover, black and white photo of woods in the winter which sure is effective and reveals what you can expect but it's somehow predictable and probably more effort and imagination could have been put in it's making.. inside are lyrics, thanks list and all the usual info, it's shame there aren’t translations of lyrics because Zmar songs are on Czech and one Mališa Bahat on Croatian..
anyhow, nice little record, which I don’t listen every day but when I’m in the mood for such sort of music this is one of my first choices and it helps me like a little pill and medicine for depression, sadness and similar states of mind.. and if you are more into screamo/emotional hc I’m sure you will like it even more than me and at the same time be happy to discover two maybe underrated bands which sure deserve more attention in screamo scene and if they are from France and Spain or US they would be recognized more in the world..
I believe this is still available so try from your closest of above mentioned publishers or bands or find it on bandcamp where is also available for free download..