FILTH OF MANKIND

FILTH OF MANKIND was formed in early 1996 in Gdansk, Poland by: Maciek - vocals, Milosz - guitar, vocals, Pawel - guitar, Lazej - bass and Balon - drums. Some of us played also in a few other bands at that time: Money Drug, Stench Of Death, Noise Grass, Protest And Survive, etc. Forming F.O.M. we wanted to focus on the heavier and darker sound to illustrate the lyrics about subject as old and cliche as still urgent and annoying - such as politicians swindles, brutality of their thugs in uniforms, the madness of neverending consumption, poverty of the living as a cog in the capitalist machine or sick moral standards force fed since our birth and leading to lack of tolerance, respect or understanding any forms of diversity. Another important part of our lyrical content are visions of the apocalypse, towards which in our opinion, the humankind unavoidably goes. For such a verbal/musical approach we decided the best fitting name was the title of the Misery song - Filth Of Mankind (one of the other options was The Darkest Hour off the Amebix song - luckily we didnt choose that, as theres other band named D.H in the U.S.).
So after a few months of writing the songs (and a summer holiday) we played our first show. Since that time we played in 10 or 11 countries, recorded a 7 EP and the full length album called The Final Chapter (available on CD/MC and FINALLY ON VINYL too), contributed songs to a few comps and survived 10 years despite numerous line-up changes, periods of lack of the practice space, traveling around the globe, broken collarbone and other obstacles. What doesnt kill us, makes us stronger, as they say.
By the way, please don't forget that we have regular website which has way more info, including detailed bio/discography, lyrics, interviews, reviews, tons of pictures and flyers etc. Here's the link: www.filthofmankind.nsm.pl.
Our current line-up is: Tomek - vocals, Michal - guitar, Krzysiek - guitar, Ciapa - bass and Balon - drums