Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (russian: Александр Лебедев-Фронтов; 26 August 1960 – 8 January 2022) was a Russian painter,

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, and musician.

Life and career

Lebedev-Frontov was born on 26 August 1960 in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

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. He was one of the precursors of

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and

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music in Soviet Russia. In 1987 he began an underground music-project named ''Линия Масс ''(Mass Line). In 1994 he joined

National Bolshevik Party The National Bolshevik Party (NBP; russian: Национал-большевистская партия), also known as the Nazbols (russian: нацболы), operated from 1993 to 2007 as a Russian political party with a political program of Nat ...

and started cooperation with the newspaper Limonka. In 1995 Lebedev-Frontov founded

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''Ultra'' that focused primarily on

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. In 1996 he created Vetrophonia. In 1997 Lebedev-Frontov re-created ''Линия Масс ''. In 1999 Lebedev-Frontov was co-founder of art-gallery GEZ21 (''Галерея экспериментального звука''). He died in Saint Petersburg on 8 January 2022, at the age of 61.Умер легендарный деятель русского андеграунда Александр Лебедев-Фронтов

Discography

Linija Mass

* 1998 — Fanatisch Eiskalt Maschine * 2000 — Genus Ferrum * 2001 — Eiserne Revolution * 2002 — Pas D’Acier * 2004 — Triumph Stali * 2007—1987 * 2007 — Trud / * 2007 — Mechano-Faktura * 2007 — Proletkult * 2007 — Kinematika Mechanizmov

Veprisuicida

* 1996 — Веприсуицида * 1999 — Veprisuicida / Cisfinitum — Heavy Metal Cyclothymia / Отклонение От Симметрии * 1999 — Comforter / Veprisuicida * 2000 — Chinese Meat * 2000 — K2 / Veprisuicida * 2001 — Veprisuicida & Organomehanizm — Collaboration * 2003 — Vaginacentrism * 2005 — Veprisuicida & Organomehanizm — Electro-Pop

Vetrophonia

* 1998 — Kuomintang * 1999 — Risveglio Di Una Citta / Futurogrammatika * Magmax / Vetrophonia * 2000 — K2 / Vetrophonia * 2000 — Strappadology * 2001 — Symformoza * 2003 — Simultannost * 2005 — Promzona * 2005 — Shumographika * 2008 — Generalissimus Chiang Kaishek

Stalnoy Pakt

* 2002 — Decima Mas / Il Principe Nero * 2002 — Okkupacija * 2003 — Stalnoy Pakt / Rasthof Dachau — Die Toten An Die Lebenden * 2004 — Russia’s Awakening * 2005 — Anno Mundi Ardentis # Legion Chesty * 2006 — O Roma O Morte! * 2007 — Stalnoy Pakt — Anthesteria — Mikhail Vavich — Dedicated To The Russo-Japanese War 1904—1905

Т.А.У.

* 2001 — Bioni * 2007 — La Splendeur, Geometrique / Urbanomania

References

External links

Aleksandr Lebedev-Frontov
on

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Some political works of Lebedev-Frontov

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