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Scene Report: Russian Psychobilly

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by Kirill Ermichev
St. Psychoburg, Russia
September 30.11.05

It was a dark and rainy October evening of 1998. My doorbell rang and I opened the door. It was my neighbor Max, he brought me an audiotape. “Listen to it,” he said, “you will like it. It’s a kinda crazy rock-n-roll.” After listening for awhile I knew that this “crazy rock-n-roll” I was definitely impressed by the psychobilly songs, and a compilation that changed my life was called “1st Psychoattack Over Europe”… That was the intro. Now for the facts.

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