When singer Gino Srdjan Yevdjevich left war ravaged Sarajevo and settled in Seattle in the mid-90s, he hauled two things in toe - his immense vocal and songwriting talent, and his relentless ambition to create. Little that he knew that after starting Kultur Shock in 1996, he’s not only going to become the beating heart of one of the most consequential genre-bending bands of the last couple of decades, but also the de-facto grandfather of a movement that people today casually refer to as gipsy punk. For the following 25 years, Kultur Shock embarks on a never ending path of experimentation, mixing Balkan folk melodies and bizarre meters with face melting metal and blood pumping punk rock, being lyrical, obnoxious, political, irreverent, all the while respecting every influence they’ve had to make the Bosnian sevdah more sevdah, the rock more rock, and gipsy-punk-metal what it currently is - a culture shock. To describe Kultur Shock’s style and sound, people usually refer to Gogol Bordello, System of a Down, Dubioza Kolektiv, Manu Chao, The Pogues or Band of Four but none of that does the band a justice, because Kultur Shock’s sound and approach to music is literally in a league of their own. The band released its first three studio records produced by Faith No More’s Bill Gould on his KoolArrow Records between 2001 and 2006. Since 2007, Kultur Shock has been self-produced and self-released on its own label Kultur Shock Records, and has put out four LPs, one EP, and 3 live albums.
![KULTUR SHOCK - Bosna in Time [Official Music Video]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QBABWPYPl-k/hqdefault.jpg)
![Kultur Shock - Iluzije [Official uber ultra music video]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hzG12E7PQuA/hqdefault.jpg)
![KULTUR SHOCK - SNIJEG [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sgobuYZkWT0/hqdefault.jpg)