Finally you can buy, touch and actually watch the long-awaited Last Hope DVD release. You can even listen to the audio CD from their infamous gig on March 15, 2008 at the no-longer existent Black Box club in Sofia, Bugaria. It’s in the package too. You can play it in your car. I tested it. It works out great during the traffic jams. But the more important part, of course, is the video footage from that concert. I’ve never watched any of the DVD releases of the older Bulgarian bands, but I don’t need to, because I’m pretty sure that ‘Bulgar Display Of Power’ is a revolutionary move for the younger generation. Not only because it’s the first one. There are other, more substantional reasons that come up as soon as the opener ‘Overcome’ starts. The cameras, the dynamics, the close-ups- everything is done the way YOU could recognize yourself as a part of what’s happening on the screen, YOU to find yourself there in the mosh pit even if you were not present, YOU to feel that it wouldn’t be the same without YOU. In fact it would be nothing. This DVD is not a document from a concert of a band that would like to look at its live performance through the eye of a camera. It’s a tribute to the people in the audience, who make it possible for Last Hope to become the most serious hardcore team for the last 15 years. As the logic of this release follows, YOU are not a fan or something like that. You are part of the band, a credit investor, the only one who matters when these guys play live. The documentary enhances this theory even more. Familiar faces speak your language. They don’t tell fairy tales and ego-driven bullshit. The story of Last Hope is that from the next neighbourhood. Alex admits that he decided to become the singer, because “I didn’t really played any instruments”. Kosio had drumstick, covered with black tape, looking really professional, but he had played a real drum kit only once before he joined the band and Dobro had expected to join a pro band while to his shock he found out that Last Hope were playing “some primitive punk”. All these historical details are aptly mixed with archive concert footage from the 90’s. It’s really interesting to see now how people used to start bands back then. “There was no scene" - Dobro admits - "No older guys to help us out. So we decided to be our own helpers.” This is the untold story of dozens of Bulgarian bands and most of them disbanded on the way. Last Hope survived to tell it. You can track them down in the studio and on tour. You can actually get in their broken bus somewhere in Europe. You have to see it. It’s impossible to re-tell this stuff, you’ve got to watch it. And then… Who knows, may be you will call some your friends and start a band?