![]() Phantasmagoria is well-known also for many cover songs, besides already mentioned: "White Wedding" - Billy Idol, "Never Let Me Down" - Depeche Mode, "Gimme Gimme Gimme" - Abba, "Gimme Shelter" - Rolling Stones ( The Sisters Of Mercy version), "She's In Parties" - Bauhaus, "Pet Sematary" - Ramones, "Model" - Kraftwerk, "Tower Of Strenght" - The Mission, "Lucretia My Reflection" - The Sisters Of Mercy, plus some covers of The Cure, The Stooges, David Bowie, T-Rex. In 2000 Phantasmagoria recorded another cover, a big hit of Macedonian cult ethnic-dark band Mizar "Devojka od Bronza" ( Phantasmagoria translated lyric in the Croatian language) and "Djevojka Od Bronce" was the biggest success till song "Better World". The third video followed in 1996 for the cover of Joy Division classic "She’s Lost Control", which was a big success too. The same year Phantasmagoria recorded the song "Power And Glory" for the compilation album Made in Croatia – The best of indie rock. 1 on the national television chart, and the video for the song "Isolated" (1992) was one of the best ten video-clips in Croatia for the year 1993. The first Phantasmagoria video-clip for the song "Better World" (1991) also came straight to No. In 1990 Phantasmagoria earned the title of a best new alternative band of former Yugoslavia by the music press. The following singles, "Poziv U Raj" and "Ja Gledam Svojim Očima" repeated that success a year later. 1 indie-charts position, good critics followed by the press, and "Alex" became one of the favourite songs, mainly because of reminding of the early The Sisters Of Mercy. The first single, "Alex" (1988), went straight to the No. ![]() Phantasmagoria is a gothic rock/post-punk and mainly controversial band, often compared with The Sisters Of Mercy, Killing Joke, The Fields Of The Nephilim. Phantasmagoria uses the pentagram as its symbol- a symbol of the perfect man and a balance between material and spiritual. Inspiration for the name emerges from the same-titled The Damned album, but it also reminds about apparent fiction of universal truth. Phantasmagoria is a dark rock band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed by Tomi Phantasma (also in a punk band Eksodus) in 1988, guided by the idea of creating something different in the post-punk sunset of Zagreb at the end of the eighties. ![]()
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