Umbrtka is a metal band from PlzeÃ
Â, Czech Republic. The band describe their music, which incorporates black, doom, industrial metal elements and is influenced by Czech underground, as 'grey' metal. The main themes of their lyrics are deserted industrial areas, factories, power plants, railways, dirty streets, trains, and other industrial elements.
'Umbrtka' is a name for a 'deity' which rules the grey industrial world. It is based on a working-class man called Ivo Krátký, formerly employed in Skart, PlzeÃ
Â's scrapyard which, within the band's lyrics, is considered a 'temple of labor'.
Discography
Full albums
- ZaÃ
¡pinit slunce (To Pollute the Sun) (2000)
- DÃÂlnický a bezdomovecký Ã
¡edý metal (Worker's and Homeless Gray Metal ) (2001)
- Kladivo pracuje na 110% (The Hammer Works at 110%) (2001)
- Kovostroj plzeÃ
Âských pánÃ
¯ práce (Metalmachine of PlzeÃ
Â's Labour Lords) (2001)
- Hymny Ã
¡edé sÃÂly (Hymns of the Grey Force) (2002)
- OzvÃÂny Ã
¡pÃÂny (Echoes of Dirt) (2002)
- Betonová opona (The Concrete Curtain) (2002)
- Nad propastÃÂ dne (Above the Abyss of the Day) (2003)
- MelÃ
¡a - Frank Zappa meets Darkthrone (2003)
- PamÃÂti Ã
¡pinavé lávky (Memories of the Dirty Footbridge) (2004)
- LitÃÂ podzimnÃÂho asfaltu (The Casting of Autumn Asphalt) (2005)
- Pánà& Uhelná pánev (The Lord & The Coal Basin) (2 cd, 2008)
- ÃÂplná demontáÃ
¾ lidstva (The Complete Disassembly of Mankind) (2009)
- Kovový háj (The Metal Grove) (2010)
- IVO - IndustriálnàVelké Obrozenà(The Great Industrial Renaissance) (2010)
- SpoÃÂinutÃÂ (Resting) (2011)
- KKW (2012)
- Selement (2012)
- V deÃ
¡ti mech (Moss in the Rain) (2014)
- HlavnÃÂ stroj (The Master Machine) (2016)
- KomÃÂny Smrti (The Chimneys of Death) (2019)
- PÃ
ÂesazovánàstrejcÃ
¯ (The Reseating of Uncles) (2022)
EPs
- Jaro nevidÃÂt (2011, digital download)
LPs
- Kovový háj (2012)
- ÃÂplná demontáÃ
¾ lidstva (2013)
Demos
- The Hand of Nothingness (2003)
External links