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 labelUltra 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