Thanks, Jasna, for your wonderful reply, and am sorry for this late one to it.
Wouldn't be surprised if there weren't some influences coming into the Slovene punk scene from at least the Veneto region of Italy, Hungary, Austria, and maybe even Croatia, as they're all close neighbours of Slovenia.
As for metalheads, well, takes all kinds to make a country, much less a world, I say.
Just be glad they're not into Turbo Folk!!!
For those of you out there who don't know what Turbo Folk is, it's a Serbian musical genre, derived from traditional Serbian folk music, but with some modern pop rhythms and instrumentation, that was rather popular in Serbia back in the late '80's through '90's, and, in its lyrics, had a decidedly Serbian ultranationalist tinge to it.
Don't know if it's still popular in Serbia to-day, though.
Interestingly enough, from what I remember reading in early and mid-'90's editions of Maximum Rock And Roll, a good portion of the Serbian punk scene was, if anything, pretty opposed to the Milosevic government and its works.
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