Post Regiment were a melodic punk band from Warsaw.  Active between 1986 and 2001, their music spanned a period of significant socio-political change in Poland.  This is the second press of their remastered 1992 self-titled album that was reissued by Refuse Records last year.

‘Prawda jest nienawisicią, fabryka klamstw, Czy wierzysz w ich światio, kiedy jeden z nich, Wmawia ci, źe milość to strach, To twoje światio’ (Religia) / ‘Truth is hate, a factory of lies, Do you believe their light when one of them, tells you that love is fear, That is your light’ (Religion)

For those living under the totalitarian shroud of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, to be a punk carried with it a visceral political component.  We often think of Poland as, perhaps, having escaped the worst excesses of the police state.  Yet it is estimated that over 20,000 people were either murdered or disappeared by the state between 1947 and 1989, and the threat of further Soviet intervention always implicitly lurked.

‘Kolejny pusty dzień z kolejką pustych ośob, W ich obcych oczach dokladnie widzę się’ (Slowa O…) / ‘Another empty day with a queue of empty people, In their unfamiliar eyes I see myself precisely’ (Words About…)

It was in this environment that Warsaw’s Post Regiment first formed in 1986.  It was not until after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 that the band was able to record their self-titled debut album, which was released in 1992.  It brims with intensely melodic hardcore punk, upbeat in tempo, yet melancholic in temperament, fuelled by vibrantly virtuosic Polish vocals.

Post Regiment’s lyrics are poetically allegorical in hue.  They seek to grapple with the relief of Poland emerging from Soviet control to the uncertainty of the country being plunged into the wild west capitalism that was unleashed across the post-Communist states, and that benefitted no one but the oligarchal class and Western financiers.

The band released three further albums and were active until 2001.  Throughout, they remained passionately committed to the DIY ethics that shaped the formative Polish hardcore punk scene.

This the second press of the remastered self-titled debut album from Post Regiment, which was originally reissued in 2024.  It includes a gatefold cover and a 20-page 30cmx30cm colour booklet, which includes lyrics, live photos, and flyers.  Members went on to play in Morus and Ye.stem.