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Music, Bass, Keys, Vocals & Lyrics: Xian3
Re-Mastering & Lead Guitar: JayK
(Picture shows the Strugatzki-Brothers)
The refraintheme is quoted from „Roadside Picnic“, a science-fiction novel by Arkadij and Boris Strugatzki, 1977
Roadside Picnic
It says, that it is quite a decade ago
That unknown visitors, assumed alien race
left traces in six different places on earth
Like bullet holes
On a surface of a rotating globus
In a smooth curve,
Like a pearl necklace
„A picnic. Picture a forest, a country road, a meadow. Cars drive off the country road into the meadow, a group of young people get out carrying bottles, baskets of food, transistor radios, and cameras. They light fires, pitch tents, turn on the music. In the morning they leave.“
Ever since then
there has been
A growing illegal market
Around those vistation zones
Wich are full of unexplained phenomena
A subculture called stalkers,
Scavengers
Who go into the zones
To steal the artifacts for Profit,
Has evolved all around these zones.
Red is in the centre of the story
And he is so deeply, fatally involved…
„The animals, birds, and insects that watched in horror through the long night
Creep out from their hiding places. And what do they see?
Old spark plugs and old filters strewn around... Rags, burnt-out bulbs, and a monkey wrench left behind... „
There are „Burner“, „Burnt Fuzz“ and „Electro“
There are „Fruit Punch“, „Vortex“ and „Whirlgig“
There are „Shriekers“ and the feared „Hell Slime“,
The brutal “Meatgrinder“
And the „Golden Sphere“,
That makes your most secret wishes come true
There are mutations, conspiracy,
Secret organizations
Resurgance,
Annihilation and indispensibly
Alcohol and tragedy
„And of course, the usual mess—apple cores, Candy wrappers, charred remains of the campfire,
Cans, bottles, somebody’s hankerchief, Somebody’s penknife, torn newspapers, coins, faded flowers picked in another meadow.“
It was maybe just a short stop of some unaware others…
So once written down by the Strugatzki Brothers
So once written down by the Strugatzki Brothers
By the Strugatzki Brothers
- Genre
- Indie Rock