Korova (US band)
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Korova was a hardcore punk band from Birmingham, Alabama, formed in 2001 from members of Seven Come Eleven, Anxed, and the Gimps.
Most known for their skinhead image and strong stances against racism and commercial corruption in punk rock, they disbanded in 2006. Their recorded output was limited to two locally influential EPs, "Ultra Violence" and "...It's Already Begun" (on their own Victimized Records), and several releases on compilations. Both EPs were limited to several hundred hard copies, because the band preferred to distribute the music for free via the internet.
Their second EP contained the tracks "Let's Kill Some Klansmen Tonight", which received heavy radio play on local radio shows, as well as "Nazis Ruined Shaved Heads", which received national attention when it appeared on two compilation albums, most notably the "Streets of America" CD on the New York label United Riot Records. The song "Nazis Ruined Shaved Heads" later appeared on a bootleg CD entitled "Nazis Make Good Targets" that was released in Slovenia in 2005. A third recording session produced several songs that never saw official release, and yet a fourth recording session for what was to become their first full-length, and the only tracks not self-recorded by the band, was canned for being "over produced".
A 7" vinyl record of remastered material was released a year after the band's last show in Birmingham, Alabama. The record was titled "If there is a future...". The songs were remastered by Carl Snow of the early Tennessee hardcore band Koro.
The band appeared on the compilation "We Did It Our Own Way", a documentation of the Alabama punk subculture, along with Skeptic?, Random Conflict, the Vomit Spots, and many others on Victimized Records. Members also played in the bands Blood Guts Destruction, Slag, No Price Paid, Everyman, and Sick of Talk.
Other info.: The title of the 7" ("If there is a future") appears on the A side matrix on the 7". The B side matrix says "It lies in the Proles."
