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

Life and career

Lebedev-Frontov was born on 26 August 1960 in Leningrad, USSR. He was one of the precursors of industrial and noise music in Soviet Russia.[1] In 1987 he began an underground music-project named Линия Масс (Mass Line).[2] In 1994 he joined National Bolshevik Party and started cooperation with the newspaper Limonka.[3] In 1995 Lebedev-Frontov founded record label Ultra that focused primarily on industrial music. In 1996 he created Vetrophonia.[4] In 1997 Lebedev-Frontov re-created Линия Масс . In 1999 Lebedev-Frontov was co-founder of art-gallery GEZ21 (Галерея экспериментального звука).[5] He died in Saint Petersburg on 8 January 2022, at the age of 61.[6]

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 Discogs
• Some political works of Lebedev-Frontov
• Interview with Lebedev-Frontov

На других языках

[ru] Лебедев-Фронтов, Александр Львович