Biting Elbows is a Russian

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band that was formed in 2008 in

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. In 2012, they were an opening act for

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and Placebo's concerts in Moscow, played at

Maxidrom Maxidrom (russian: Максидром) was an annual international musical festival organized by Radio Maximum Radio Maximum is a Russian radio station, specializing in pop and rock music. Maximum was founded in 1991 as a joint venture of Westwo ...

. In 2013, they played at

Park Live Festival Park Live (russian: link=no, Парк Лайв) is an annual international music festival, which takes place in Moscow, Russia. The main point of festival is to bring "pop-culture heroes of our time" to Russia. A lot of artists who have played ...

. The band is perhaps best known for its music videos for the songs "The Stampede" and "Bad Motherfucker". The videos, directed by frontman Ilya Naishuller, went viral because of their first person perspective, special effects, and action. Naishuller directed a full-length first-person action/sci-fi/adventure film written by himself, '' Hardcore Henry'' (2015), starring Sharlto Copley and Danila Kozlovsky. Biting Elbows wrote the songs "My Woman" and "For the Kill" for the film's soundtrack, the former being featured in their second album, ''Shorten the Longing'', which was released on June 26, 2020. Three other songs from the album ("Control", "Alone", and "Other Me") were featured in the Director's Cut edition of the video game '' Death Stranding'' which was released on September 24, 2021. The video game's designer

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referred to Naishuller as "a genius artist of 21st century music and video".@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN (August 26, 2021) - via Twitter
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Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

References

External links

Biting Elbows official website
Russian rock music groups Musical groups established in 2008 Musical groups from Moscow {{band-stub