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II

  • 流派:Rock 摇滚
  • 语种:英语
  • 发行时间:2017-02-10
  • 类型:录音室专辑

简介

The full Russian version of Hellspin's name would translate as "Hellish Revolution." Band members sometimes joke about the ways in which local existence tends to frustrate any private fantasies of freedom. Chance plays a greater role than personal wishes and/or planning. "Our band came together on the wide-open expanses of [modern] Moscow thanks [only] to the effort of two provincial jerks." A little detective work reveals that those same provincial locations are Perm and Kirov. "The group's first rehearsal occurred merely by chance... Our guitarist didn't turn up. After the first few chords, though, it was clear that we didn't even need him. What we did need was a female vocalist." Eventually that missing, yet vital colleague would be found: Lyudmila Shilova. Together with Yura Teterev and Pavel Rusakov, Shilova would come to produce what Hellspin calls "minimalist hard rock. It's a dalliance with both punk and stoner styles." The band has just announced a second album that invokes the Devil, nuclear war, a "chorus of the Dead," and concentration camps in the first few minutes. That general air of disaster always trickles down to daily life. Shilova jokes that she gets love letters from fans in provincial towns who "cannot live" without her - yet they also can't be bothered to buy a train ticket to Moscow. One young and potential groupie wrote to her, declaring his love. Shilova answered, presumably in jest, that she was high on heroin. He never responded. The enduring role of sex in Hellspin's performances serves to highlight a certain catharsis denied by normality. "Our music is devoid of mystery. It's primitive, sincere, and honest. I'd compare it to the sensation of being smacked across the face... Sex has its place in punk and on stage - it's a kind of external display that echoes something internal." Apparently neither sincerity nor honesty stand a chance outside the concert hall. The band views its primary antagonists or "enemies" as "anybody who wants to turn something wild and uncontrolled into something [crudely] material... Our music is bestial and earthy in nature... It's designed for cave dances or as an accompaniment for barking dogs. You need to turn off your head and listen to your heart. That might lead you to do something unattractive or frightening, but at least it'll be honest."

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