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FTR​-​CD 005: Monument Strakha - Never Cry '1991 (2022)

by Монумент Страха / Monument Strakha

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Au 03:40
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We Wanna Be (Single Edit) 02:49
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Devotion 04:56
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I Know Why 04:24
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I'm The Most Awful & The Most Dangerous 04:15
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It's All My Life 06:45
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Kamasutra 03:34
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Never Cry 04:50
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The Freewill Native-Russian Label "Vaterland Division" with honor and pride presents to your attention the long-awaited fifth CD release...

For the first time on an official carrier! Collector's edition of the previously unreleased third album of the Сult Leningrad band "Monument Strakha". One of the forerunners of "Industrial" and "Noise Rock" in USSR! Continuing a series of official reissues of the band's extensive back catalog.

In their third work, "Monument" bite into the ears of listeners with a violent and ragged Industrial / Noise Rock, famously sliding over the ash of Acid Punk (Hi, "Buttthole Surfers"!).

A word to the witness of the living power of the band, the St. Petersburg journalist Andrey Burlaka:

[...] "In the autumn of 1991, my feet often brought me to the corner of Maly Prospekt Vasilyevsky Island and the 16th Line of the V.O.: in this unremarkable four-story house, the Vasileostrovsky Youth Center has been located since 1987, and just in the summer Seva Gakkel opened the TamTam club there.

In early September, Igor Saykin, aka "Said", in the recent past, the drummer of the brisk punks from the Brigade Contract, invited me to TamTam to look at his next band, Monument of Fear, which, according to him, gravitated towards industrial rock, Industrial.

Their music, indeed, met the stated definition: it had brutal energy, and dissonant noises (Said rattled some kind of iron, almost barrels!), and the psychedelic magic of the guitar parts of Flerov and Kowalski, and harsh, but sincere romance. In short, something individual and captivatingly real. Later we met, I listened to the first albums of the band – imperfect, but intriguing – followed the further evolution of the genre and the band and much later.

Oddly enough, three decades have passed since then, and now, this music has turned out to be relevant again. Which means she's really REAL."

🎧 🎶 AUDIO: 7 original remastered tracks of the album, in the original author's tracklist;

🎁🎵 AUDIO-BONUSES: 5 archive tracks from 1992-94: the '92 singles "We Wanna Be" and "So Riding In The Wasteland", two demo-tracks of the same year and the unreleased '94 track "Stainless Steel Hawk" with Nikolai Rodionov on vocals;

🎬 VIDEO-BONUS: A unique archive-video of Leningrad Television, capturing an excerpt of a concert at the "TamTam" club in September 1991. [available for viewing at a closed link ONLY at purchase CD or Digital Release on BANDCAMP!]

We are sure that this release will become a kind of Holy Grail and an invaluable gift for all fans of Monument's and more broadly, for all crazy fans of Industrial, Noise Rock and Acid Punk!

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released December 12, 2022

Yura K., Alexey Flerov, Igor "Said" Saikin

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VATERLAND is a Freewill Russian Label with the widest genre coverage. We are interested in the Underground in all its forms & manifestations. Our Path lies outside of flashy trends and momentary relevance. To the Eternal Truth and the Only Homeland!

Priority bands are in the genres of unorthodox Punk / Post-Punk. As well as a variety of Industrial, Psychedelia & Avantgarde projects. ... more

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