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Background information
Origin	Belgrade, Serbia
Genre(s)	Hardcore punk Reggae
Years active	1994–present
Label(s)	Silver Cross, Metropolis, B92, Ammonite, PGP-RTS
Associated acts	Soulfly
Website	Official site
Members
Aleksandar Petrovic Nemanja Kojic Dalibor Vucic Zoran Djuroski Dusan Petrovic Vukasin Markovic

Eyesburn is a Serbian hardcore-reggae band. The band comes from the Serbian capital, Belgrade.

Eyesburn was formed in 1994., and the original line up was: Kojot (Coyote) - guitar & back vocals, Laza-bass, Alek-drums and Nenad-vocals. Since the band originated from the Belgrade hardcore scene, the first album Freedomized was recorded live at Belgrade club KST. After the cassette went public (at least underground), as well as before that, Eyesburn played mostly in Belgrade clubs, occasionally having a gig or two elsewhere in Serbia. During that period, second guitar player Gillespie joined the band and they all started to work on the band's first studio album Dog Life. Unfortunately, vocalist Nenad left the band just weeks before the band started recording in the studio, and Kojot took his place as a lead singer, continuing to expand his enormous musical talents and skills. After the album release, Gillespie also left the band, and the band continued to play as a trio. At the same time, Kojot starts to take active role as a trombone player as well, and the band started musical exploration of other genres (reggae, dub, drum & bass) making its own specific mixture of styles, and creating their own unique sound which many people liked immediately. All that lead to expanding the line up again and Nino joined the band as a second guitar player which added more colour and filled the sound that they already had. Soon after, Eyesburn recorded their (still) most popular and listened to album titled Fool Control which showed the band's ability to grow, and opened doors for many opportunities in the music business. The band's line-up since then has been:

• Alek - drums
• Laza - bass
• Nino - guitar
• Kojot - guitar, vocal, trombone

As a confirmation of their growing popularity they received an invitation for the pre-election tours "IT’S TIME" and "USE IT" (your brain) to bring Milosevich’s political system down, which they gladly accepted. This tour made it possible for Eyesburn to promote themselves around the country playing in towns they never played before.

Recording soundtrack for the most popular youth film Munje, the band introduced himself to a wider population. They have played over 400 concerts since than, mostly in Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Slovenia, which proved the fact that this is one of the most active bands on scene in Yugoslavia. During 2001 and 2002 Eyesburn participated in the EXIT festival in Novi Sad where they performed along with Tony Allen (musician), Asian Dub Foundation and Fundamental. They also performed as guests for big Belgrade concert of Lee Scratch Perry (together with Ank Steady Spear), Burnin Spear, and bands like Pro-Pain and Disciplin’ A Kitchme.

The band’s enormous activity and energy they never seem to lose resulted with the new project Gabau which represents a specific turnover to reggae sound and continues with another project Cool Fire which is special because they worked with dub poet Ank Steady Spear who wrote the lyrics and performed them.

Their next album Solid was released in May 2003 by B92 and it was instantly accepted by fans and critics as their best album so far, showing that the band has matured in their specific sound and songwriting, returning to their hardcore\metal roots, but still adding new colors and textures to them. All that led to an invitation from Max Cavalera to do one song for the Soulfly album Prophecy, "Moses", and to play on the 2004 Prophecy Europe Tour.

Also, Kojot appears on the new Soulfly album Dark Ages in 2005. Eyesburn was on tour in Serbia and later in other countries (Bosnia, Slovenia, Austria, Bulgaria... for example Harter festival, and as guests of Soulfly on their tour with Black Sabbath).

In March 2005 their line-up changed: Laza (bass) and Nino (guitar) left the band. That surprised fans and critics. Now Eyesburn are: Kojot (vocal, trombone, guitar), Zoran Djuroski Djura (who gave up playing guitar and became a sound manager), Alek (drums), with new members: Dule (saxophone, ex Dvojac Bez Kormilara), Vucko (bass, ex Del Arno Band), Vukasin (trombone and back-up singer, Smoke’n’Soul – he performed earlier as Eyesburn guest) and Utvar (Partibrejkers drummer).

Changes in the band have influenced their music. Kojot had to reinforce the guitar, and saxophone and trombone are more common in songs. Their sound became more complete, mature, and the lyrics still carried the same message and energy which you can best feel on their performances, because Eyesburn is one of those bands who live to play for fans and on concerts they sound great. Beside all of the energy you can feel on the concerts, one of the characteristic of Eyesburn is thing which some bands are forgetting: love to their fans. It’s not unusual to see band members talking with fans and that relationship is the most intensive when show starts: both the band and fans are one!

In April 2005 they started recording new album in Novi Sad studio M and studio Cameleon in Zemun. In December the same year they have published their (for now) last album How Much For Freedom? for PGP RTS. The album was published in Serbia and Austria.

In conclusion, it would be good to say that Eyesburn is actively cooperating with many domestic and foreign performers, especially with demo bands with aim to improve our scene. Kojot appears as guest to Juice (hip–hop), Shappa (reggae) and some other bands. Eyesburn is still proving themselves in the world.

• 1994 Freedomized - live album recorded at Belgrade K.S.T. club + bonus studio tracks (Silver Cross Records)
• 1998 Dog Life (Metropolis Records)
• 2000 Fool Control (B92 Records)
• 2001 Gabau! (Metropolis Records)
• 2002 Cool Fire - Ank SteadySpear meets EYESBURN (Ammonite Records)
• 2003 Solid (B92 Records)
• 2005 How much for freedom? (PGP-RTS Records)

• Official Page
• Eyesburn Fan Club