The Nightmares is a post-punk/gothic rock bank from Jihlava in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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. The band became a publicly known group shortly after the Velvet Revolution

Velvet Revolution

The Velvet Revolution or Gentle Revolution was a non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that took place from November 17 – December 29, 1989...

 in 1989, whose original members were Roman Prochazka, Martin Turek, Petra Komarkova and Michal Neuhoffer. Their then mission was to formulate the post-communist

Post-Communism

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 expression of reminiscent darkness and liberal forward-looking optimism

Optimism

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into a musical message. The Nightmares toured the Czech Republic, Germany, UK and other countries formerly inaccessible to them, played to radio audiences and released a compilation of tracks on CD.