Ekatarina Velika

After an argument with the original guitarist, there is a change in the ranks of Katarina II. First of all, Catherine II ceases to exist, now the band is Ekatarina Velika (Ecatherine The Great), and secondly, drummer Ivica Vdović and guitarist Gagi Mihajlović leave the band, and they are joined by Ivan Fece "Firchie", a drummer who before this engagement already had experience under his belt with seminal underground groups such as the gothic-rock Luna and funk-pop Jakarta. Here the band is starting to take off their colorful new-wave shirts and put on leather jackets and dark mascara, and enter the goth rock waters, probably in part thanks to their new drummer, and the turning tides in Western music. The album itself, apart from the fact that it was a turning point for the band, is not something special. Often forgotten even. It starts off very well with the song "Oči Boje Meda" (Honey Colored Eyes), which becomes the group's first hit, and also shows Milan's songwriting abilities. Then it drops very hard in quality (even stealing the rhythm from The Damned on one of the songs) until the song "Hands" (Hands), from where a gradual increase in quality begins, mixing goth rock in pop frames, for example in the songs "Modro i Zeleno" (Indigo and Green ) and even sometimes coming out of them, as in the song "Olovne Godine" (Years of Lead).