Marduk Show In Poland Cancelled After Venue Sabotaged Amid Political Pressure

Marduk‘s show at the Life House club in Rzeszow, POL earlier this week was cancelled under rather extraordinary circumstances. While recent reports have alleged two members of the band were found to have purchased Nazi propaganda back in 2016 - which the band have denied - this doesn’t seem to be the controversy that caused the show to be scuttled.

It seems that pressure from the Polish conservative Christian political party PiS was mainly responsible, as they had called for the show to be prohibited earlier for "promoting satanic content." While the venue owner didn’t succumb to public pressure, somebody obviously broke into the venue and stole a water meter and pipe that essentially cut the venue off from having running water the night before the concert.

While the venue ordered portable toilets, washbasins and a fire fighting water tank, local authorities still would not give the venue permission to proceed with the show. Marduk‘s booking agency Massive Music issued the below statement on that matter (translated from Polish):

“Something unusual happened. From the beginning of the announcement of the concert concert in rzeszow, they were on us and the pressure club to cancel this concert. The situation was definitely over yesterday and today. The Club, only today, had police control, fire department, and sanitation. On yesterday’s “unknown” Perp broke into the club, cut out a part of the pipe with wodomierzem, cutting off the club from running water.

On this basis, the health department has halted the activities of the life house club (until it is restored to the current water club) Coincidence? The Club did everything for the concert to take place (he ordered portable toilets, sinks, a fire tank, and even in case a aggregate generator). Unfortunately, the strength of political pressure and offices has proved too large. We regret to cancel tonight’s concert even though the teams are in rzeszow and the stage is ready.

There has never been such pressure in our history, letters from lawyers and control. We were also not able to move the concert to another place, because the checks appeared only today, on the day of the concert, and other clubs in the city did not talk to us or fear the risks.

Purchased collector tickets can be returned at sales points. Tickets from the network network can be returned after a long weekend as soon as the disposition returns.”