Damir Avdic

Damir Avdic alias Diplomatz is a hardcore poet and performer who talks about Bosnia today, at the twilight of a modern world controlled by fake religion, commercialized revolution, and false democracy serving as a cover for capitalist brutality. He sings in Bosnian: "Whoever wants to understand, will understand!"

Razor-sharp lyrics, shot from the heart and hitting you right in the head. The truth hurts, and Diplomatz tells it without compromise, and without mercy. With the eyes of a psycho and hard, powerful, threatening guitar riffs, he delivers a message without any illusions.

Damir Avdic (from Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina) was known in the 1990's as frontman of the hard-hitting punk rock band Rupa u zidu (Hole in the Wall), with whom he released four albums. They kept on playing and putting out records even during the war in Bosnia.

In 2004 he made his first solo album ...od trnja i zaoka (...by thorns and stings), a kind of soundtrack for his novel Na Krvi Cuprija (Bridge over Blood), which talks about Bosnia during and right after the war. The CD and novel were both issued by the legendary underground pioneer Zdenko Franjic. Thanks to Damir Avdic's intense performances, word quickly spread about this unusual (anti-)singer-songwriter.

His second album Mrtvi su mrtvi! (The Dead Are Dead!), recorded for Moonlee Records, came out in March 2008.