We were refused twice before when we applied for tourist visas. Style: This is your first real American tour - did you have any visa problems this time? The band preferred to be interviewed in Russian, so I e-mailed some questions to a Richmonder now living in Moscow, Kevin McNeer, who translated Gitarkin’s answers. The trio features the excellent Oleg Gitarkin on “guitar, horror-laugh and video,” Svetlana Nagaeva or Zombierella on “bass, vocals and screaming” and Bisfer on drums. Now a decade later, after sadly typical visa problems, they’re here. I recall waiting for them to tour here … and waiting. Petersburg, Russia, trio - which arose from the ashes of Messer fur Frau Mueller, a self-described “industrial psycho-hardcore act” - with a killer update on American surf music far more kaleidoscopic and interesting than anything I’d heard out of the States. But the more I listened to the group’s catalog, the more impressed I was to discover a St. My reference to the evangelical Robertson remains unclear.

… Songs with names such as ‘Satan Jeans’ and ‘Monkey Safari’ make this a great background album for conjuring that crazy voodoo biker/Pat Robertson mood.” “Sci-fi music with heavy doses of surf and rockabilly … like a Tarantino-culled soundtrack for a ’60s Italian vampire flick or a Tipsy-scored Martian movie. There seemed to be so much cool kitsch jammed into this trippy instrumental album, I was grasping more than usual when I wrote the review for Style: In a sea of copycats, the album grabbed my attention. Nine years ago some kindly public-relations person sent me a copy of the Messer Chups album “Crazy Price” on Ipecac Records.

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