With music, with art, with entertainment come the zealots who abhor the things we love and Friday May 4th is the perfect example. According to The Prp, Marduk, a group of Polish heavy metal rockers, had a show booked at the Life House club in Rzeszow, Poland that was surprisingly canceled.
Although the band was recently under fire for their alleged purchase of Nazi propaganda in 2016, the cancellation has nothing to do with these claims. Rather, the show was cancelled due to an insane amount of pressure from the Polish Christian political party PiS. Earlier in the week, the group called to ban the show as it promoted satanic beliefs, but the club chose to ignore the party’s request. Apparently someone broke into the club on May 3rd and stole a water meter and a pipe that pretty much prevented the venue from having any running water the night of the show.
To combat the break-in the venue even ordered porta-potties, washbasins, and a massive fire fighter’s water tank for the show, however, local authorities refused to give the club permissions to run the show. Following the vandalism, Massive Music, Marduk’s booking agency, released a comment in Polish that the Prp brilliantly translated: “Something unusual happened. From the beginning of the announcement of the concert concert in rzeszow, they were on us and the pressure club to cancel this concert. The situation was definitely over yesterday and today. The Club, only today, had police control, fire department, and sanitation. On yesterday’s “unknown” Perp broke into the club, cut out a part of the pipe with wodomierzem, cutting off the club from running water.On this basis, the health department has halted the activities of the life house club (until it is restored to the current water club) Coincidence? The Club did everything for the concert to take place (he ordered portable toilets, sinks, a fire tank, and even in case a aggregate generator). Unfortunately, the strength of political pressure and offices has proved too large. We regret to cancel tonight’s concert even though the teams are in rzeszow and the stage is ready.There has never been such pressure in our history, letters from lawyers and control. We were also not able to move the concert to another place, because the checks appeared only today, on the day of the concert, and other clubs in the city did not talk to us or fear the risks.Purchased collector tickets can be returned at sales points. Tickets from the network network can be returned after a long weekend as soon as the disposition returns.”
This isn’t the first time Marduk has been under pressure to cancel shows. Last year, the band’s show in Oakland, CA was cancelled due to alleged ties with racist beliefs. Hopefully, soon, Marduk will be able to perform again as they have an album coming out next month.
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