Koniec Świata is a polish

Poles

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 musical band which plays a mixture of punk, rock

Rock music

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 and ska

Ska

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 music. The band has been founded in 2000 in Katowice

Katowice

Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...

 by Jacek Stęszewski who is the only member in the band from its beginning. They have issued six albums so far: Korzenie (Roots), Symfonia Na Sprzedaż (Symphony For Sale), Kino Mockba (Moscow Cinema), Burgerbar (Burgerbar), Oranżada (Orangeade) and X-lat (X-years). The last album is a 10th anniversary compilation of their greatest hits

Greatest hits

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 . The current line-up is: Jacek Stęszewski (vocals, guitar

Guitar

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), Jacek Czepułkowski (lead guitar

Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

), Szymon Cirbus (trumpet

Trumpet

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), Marek Mrzyczek (bass guitar

Bass guitar

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) and Michał Leks (drums). The band's style evolved in time, and on the first two albums punk and ska are more noticeable, while on the next albums the music is going towards the rock style. Almost all lyrics are in polish by Stęszewski. Koniec Świata have played on the biggest fetivals in Poland, such as Jarocin Festival

Jarocin Festival

Jarocin Festival was one of the biggest and most important rock music festivals in the 1980s Europe, by far the biggest festival of alternative music in the Warsaw Pact countries....

 and Przystanek Woodstock

Przystanek Woodstock

Przystanek Woodstock is an annual free rock music festival in Poland, inspired by and named for the Woodstock Festival, that has taken place since 1995...

. Currently it is one of the most popular punk/rock/ska band in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

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