Detailierte Künstler Informationen: Iskra

There is more than one artist with this name:

1) Iskra is a crust punk band with heavy black metal influence

2) Iskra (www.myspace.com/theiskra) is a hardcore/metal band from Norway

3) Iskra is a Swedish Jazz band

4) Iskra is a punk-powerpop band, placed in Hamburg, Germany.

5) Iskra (이스크라) was a South Korean rock band





1) Iskra is a Canadian anarchist crust punk and extreme metal band founded in Victoria, British Columbia in 2002.

Because the band performs, records, and releases their material outside of the confines of the mass media, Iskra are considered part of the anarchist underground punk musical tradition, which emerged in the late 1970s with bands like Crass and Discharge. By blending elements of crust punk, black metal, powerviolence, grindcore, and thrash metal, Iskra say they have created their own subgenre, "blackened crust."[1] Obvious musical influences include Slayer, Bathory, and Amebix. The band includes former members of the earlier anarchist punk band Black Kronstadt, who in later years also described their music as "blackened crust."[1]

Lyrically, Iskra follow in the anarcho-punk tradition of Crass and Conflict. Self-proclaimed anarchists, the band addresses social issues like homophobia, sexism, racism, struggles of indigenous peoples, the effects of political organization, both Right and Left wing, as well as capitalist institutions (such as the World Trade Organization, World Bank, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Independent Task Force on North America).

Iskra is working on a second LP with new members as of 2008.

==Discography==
*''Demo'', 2003
*''Self Titled'' LP ([[Profane Existence]]), 2004
*''Fucking Scum'' Cassette (Harsh Brutal Cold Productions), 2004
*''The Terrorist Act EP'' Single (Unrest Records), 2005
*''Bring the War Home'' split CD/LP with [[Against Empire]] of Los Angeles (Rodent Popsicle Records), 2006
*''Iskra/Self Rule Split (Unrest Records) 2007
*''Selected Works'', compilation of all work excluding ''Bring the War Home'' ([[Profane Existence]]), 2007

BUREVAL DEMO CD-R [2009]
BUREVAL LP [2009]
S/T LP RE-ISSUE [2011]
SPLIT W/ DOOM SIREN LP[2011]


2) Iskra (www.myspace.com/theiskra) is a hardcore/metal band from Norway that was founded in 2002. Today the band contains of 6 members. 4 from Horten and 2 members from Oslo. John Asbjorn Bergseng (24), Lars Bjerke(22), Henrik Herwell(23), Robin Madsen(20) and the brothers Johan(22) and Helge Staxrud(26)
- Iskra have recored a 4 track demo in 2005, a 2 track single in 2006 and signed with Sounds of Unity in 2007 with their debut album.. Album out now! (www.soundsofunity.no)
Etter at disse seks gutta fra Horten/Oslo vant festivalslag 2006 og dermed spilte på alle de store festivalene i Vestfold samme sommer, fikk Iskra rykte på seg som et band man er nødt til å oppleve live. Maken til gnistrende og forrykende energisk liveshow man skal lete lenge etter, energi er vel i det hele tatt et godt ord når man skal beskrive bandet. Det Iskra leverer er ekte, hardt og ærlig. Med perkusjon på kagger, styggpene harmonier ispedd heftige riff og to dyktige, brutale vokalister treffer dette deg midt i tryne


3) Iskra is a Swedish Jazz band:
Baritone sax player and jazz veteran Allan Olsson was one member of the GL Unit. He in turn introduced them to drummer Sune Spångberg and in March 1971 they formed Iskra, unaware that there already existed a British group by that name. The reason for resuscitating the name of the old Bolshevik newspaper was the same for both groups, namely a mixture of music and politics. While hunting sites, Iskra came in contact with a small theatre in Stockholm named Teater 9. It was here that the music series named Öppen musik (Open Music) was started, a central musical happening where the scene was opened to as many forms of musical expression as possible. This was Iskra's venue and they were joined by Bernt Rosengren, the Turkish-inspired jazz group Sevda, the English/South African trumpeter Mongezi Feza, singer Jan Hammarlund, the jazz group Rena Rama and many more. Open Music gave some twenty concerts to its Stockholm audience before the project was ended in 1973. And in the same year, Philip Wahren left Iskra.

Iskra's music was sketched freehand. Only a few guide posts existed. Improvisation and ensemble work formed the core. But there was plenty of space for tonally free passages, rhythmic interplay using percussion and noise instruments, wonderfully quiescent moments with an amadindan (a large, African xylophone), humoristic interludes and siren calls from Asian cultures. The playing could start very attentively and thoughtfully. Sune Spångberg was and is still a percussionist with an almost ascetic economy where pauses were de rigeur before larger gestures. Allan Olsson was an older, experienced bop-musician who played coherent, long, lyrical lines, sometimes somewhat coloured by Swedish folk music. Iskra experimented with music. It alternated between the pullingly rhythmic as when the group gathered round the amadinda, the playful and the immensely free moments when the group condensed as if it were one instrument.

Iskra was part of a musicians' collective called Ett Minne För Livet (A Lifelong Remembrance), a grouping whose varied range of members, including singer Marie Selander, Iskra, folk musician Styrbjörn Bergelt and Archimedes Badkar, made it possible to use African, Bebop, Swedish and American folk music, art music and free improvisational genres.


4) Iskra is a punk-powerpop band, placed in Hamburg, Germany. http://www.myspace.com/iskra3


5) Iskra (이스크라) was a South Korean rock band. They released their only album in September 2006.

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