Abadonna "Мертвый Гений Demo 1986" LP

Eastern Bloc Obscurities Series No. 10First pressing of 500 copiesGatefold jacket.Continuing our mission to disinter the forgotten remains of metal recordings lost among the ruins of the Eastern Bloc - the only extant material by Abadonna (formerly known as Falanga), one of the earliest extreme metal bands from the former Soviet Union. Recorded and self-released on cassette in 1986, Мeртвый Гений (“Dead Genius”), the 60-minute demo recording by Abadonna, is perhaps the first emanation of the black metal sound from behind the Iron Curtain. In the 1980s, while western cultural attitudes remained caught in the stranglehold of Christian morality, the Soviet Communist Party fostered an antagonistic posture toward religion, though the dogma of the Russian Orthodox Church still flowed in the bloodstream of the culture. In the mid-1980s, as Soviet society began to open up, the aggressive sounds of western rebellion resonated in the consciousness of Soviet youth. While the anti-religious aspect