EDUCATED SCUM - RUSSIA

React – 2011 – Musica
Corrupt – 2019 - Satanath

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Members
Vocals
Human Device>>Konstantin “Devilhead” Kosarev – DIMITRY “DIMEBAG” DASOV – Fatal Band, Back Door To Asylum, A Foggy Realm>>EVGENIY "JACK VEGAS" TKACHOV>>Back Door To Asylum, A Foggy Realm

Guitar
Rule24>>MIKHAIL “MISHGUN” KUZNETSOV>>Rule24


Bass
Rule24>>MIKHAIL “MISHGUN” KUZNETSOV>>Rule24 – KONSTANTIN RUDENKO

Drum





History & Biography
The Moscow-based grindcore band came together through Mikhail “MishGun” Kuznetsov and Dmitriy “Dimebag” Dasov in 2000. The two were school-mates where they had a thrash band previously. From Chaos To Disorder was a 2004 demo. Konstantin "Philin" Gribov left the mike position two weeks before scheduled concerts. At the same time, the act quickly drafted Andrey "Abadon" Shmorgoon, the bass player of Breakwar a hardcore band on short notice. The band and Fightback were on a split release in the same year. This was the band's demo material. Guitarist Kryzh departed in March of 2006. He was replaced by Konstantin "Helvete" Djatlov of Katalepsy. That line-up played a couple of gigs including performing some new material, but the band found itself without a singer by the end of 2006. Konstantin “Devilhead” Kosapev came in, but the band split up soon. Konstantin “Devilhead” Kosapev and Mikhail “MishGun” Kuznetsov formed Rule24. Four years passed. Dimebag and MishGun reformed their band. An album emrged in 2011. Evgeny “Jack Vegas” Tkachev was recruited in 2012. Jack Vegas migrated to Germany and the whole thing came to a standstill. The band was on hiatus for a week, but with Jack Vegas back in town to play a concert with A Foggy Realm the boys had him record material. The Chaos Complete: From Chaos To Disorder Re-Visited was released in May of 2015 in collaboration with More Hate and Symbol Of Domination labels. It was a compilation of re-recorded material.

Live Grind Massacre was an independent release from 2016. The band was generally absent after 2019.


Reviews

EDUCATED SCUM - CORRUPT - SATANATH  
An instrumental that features mumbling sounds opens Corrupt. Is March Of The Discontented actually an instrumental? The song after it is thrashy hardcore. Stupid And Blind (Red Utopia Part I) is chaotic and seems to refer to seven decades of communism in the band's motherland. Cold Civil War shifts focus to wealth disparity. Musically, rough sounding hardcore is one good description. An interesting solo in this third song lifts the album. Downfall Of Morality tackles another social issue with thrashy riffs. Corruption, not for the first time, features a few verses in Russian. It is not too distinguishable from its predecessor. A Sepultura influence and grindcore sounds are detectable. No Way Out But Down (Extinction Mode) captures humanity's current state better than most with its title and 'A contagious infection called human ignorance' verse. Once again the added speed and solo add positives to Corrupt. Chameleon features more Eugene Tkachev screams and a few squeals too. The Birth Of Conflict/The Death Of Peace is by far the longest song at over six minutes. Plenty of thrashy riffs with a lot to say about humanity on this one but with an acoustic and slow end. Corrupt ends with Hidden Track I and Hidden Track II the first of which is a tongue in cheek 28 seconds and the second is blank until the last 30 seconds which is only (Russian) spoken words. This 30 minutes long full length is even shorter than it is listed! – Anna Tergel


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