WHO IN THE HELL ARE THESE PEOPLE?

Beginning in 1979, Zoltan Kiss, Ferenc Szigeti, Attila Gidofalvy, Miklos Kocsandi and Tamas Takats from Budapest (picture) raised the roofs of some Eastern European venues by delivering Heavy Metal made in Hungary to their audiences.

They called themselves Karthago and we forgive them. That's because in 1979 Al Gore had not yet invented the internet through which they could have found out about the fact that this band name was not vacant anymore since 1970. Also the Iron Curtain was not exactly helpful to cultural exchanges between the east and the west. C'est la vie.

An LP released by the Hungarian Karthago clone.