Group "Sledgehammer": "Concrete mixer" - single hit

This group appeared in the early 2000s. The title justifies itself, because the style of thrash death metal hits hard on the head, and along with the original and "brutal" lyrics, it simply kills on the spot. An original combination of Western style of play and performance with texts that can be attributed to socially-public with Russian taste, makes the group unique. So, "Sledgehammer" ("Concrete mixer" - their most famous song) in action!

The emergence of a group

Group "Kuvalda" ("Concrete mixer" - the most memorable hit) was formed in 1999 in the Ryazan region, in the city of Spas-Klepiki. But the popularity to it came at the beginning of the two thousandth. The indisputable hit "Concrete mixer" made the attention of the owners of Russian MTV draw attention to the group. As a result, the clips of "Kuvalda" were shown in the programs Shit-parade and "12 evil spectators". Thus, the group acquired instant popularity, without investing in a promotion of a penny.

The first studio album is called "Delicacies", it was released in 2001. The second one was released three years later, under the name "Save and Save", and the third one after five years was called "Alkonoid". The group's repertoire includes a number of songs in German and many clips, despite a very small number of albums.

The group includes: vocalist Lyubavin Sergey, bassist Martynkin Vladimir, drummer Vetkhov Alexander and guitarist Aleshin Ivan. By the way, the bass player is responsible for all the clips, and it was thanks to his efforts that they came out into the light. In addition, the group collaborated with "Orgia of the Righteous".

The official website contains interesting facts that cause very, very big doubts. So, for example, one of the statements says that in fact Rammstein fused an idea with black stockings on their heads (clip "Ich will") from them, as the band's clip for the song "Concrete mixer" came out earlier. Indeed, no world robber has ever thought of putting a stocking on his head. In short, the guys were staged from rapid success. Well, or they show their very remarkable talent of humorists (Petrosyan and Drobotenko are nervously smoking around the corner).

Style of the group "Kuvalda"

"Concrete mixer", as well as all the work of the group, the style is quite unusual at the CIS. Thrash-death metal is a very specific direction, which is more characteristic of Western groups. Deciding on such an experiment, the guys did not even suspect that the original combination of the Russian spirit and the Western current would play into their hands. On performance, they are very much like the well-known band in the world called Cannibal Corpse, with a small correction for some softness of sound. The texts dominate the theme of cannibalism and social problems, such as alcoholism at work, heavy work injuries and much more. But the best and most memorable hit, with which the group "Kuvalda" climbed the trash-det-metal-pedestal, is "Concrete mixer".

The track itself is typical enough for them. The song of the group "Sledge-hammer", "Concrete mixer", the text is very uncomplicated. This description of the accident at work, and, to be more precise, at the construction site. A song about how the workers at the construction site got drunk, one of them got into the same concrete mixer, and the other turned on the unit, because of what the machine began to mix not cement, but human remains. And given enough heavy, growling vocals and no less heavy sound when listening to the feeling that you are being beaten by that same sledgehammer on the head.

In a word, it's worthwhile for the guys to think about how to work more on their work, and then three albums in thirteen years - this is no good. The songs are somewhat sarcastic, but very few of them. Less would be filmed and more would be recorded! And it would be worth paying more attention to both texts and sound, as all three albums resemble twins, not unlike each other. It would be superfluous to work on your development.