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"The Gulag Archipelago" is the third single and opening track from Tankist's sophomore full-length "Forced Equal" due to be released on June 28th 2023. With the title referring to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's magnum opus, the song sets the scene for the concept album which deals with the gruesome topic of Soviet forced labor camps. The technically and compositionally innovative music video is entirely comprised of AI-generated images which are animated by the talented Italian director Moreno Tempini. The viewer gets taken to a disturbing journey through what can be interpreted as a hell of abhorrent repressions carried out by totalitarian regimes.
► LYRICS
Perpetrators crowned
and control given.
By grace of orders survive,
by the orders die.
The persecutors had in time
made us all give in,
defiled and made us lie.
No refuge. No shrines.
Grit is death.
Life is...
Life is throwaway,
decay,
degraded, distorted and flayed
to a pawn for the power play.
The camps are but a chain of distress
secluded, it’s either ache or repress.
Not by mistake but by design
there is no life, survive or die!
“A single death is a tragedy; a million a statistic.”
We’re suffering a travesty, directed by sadistic
executioners and slayers, we’re numbers to them.
“Death solves all problems – no man, no problem.”
► CREDITS
Music by Kevin Marks
Lyrics by Kevin Marks and Fengarm
Vocals recorded by Margus Traumann at Pergerus Studio
Drums recorded by Are Kangus at Sügis Productions
Guitars and bass recorded by Margus Traumann at Traumanic Productions
Synthesizers recorded by Kevin Marks & Margus Traumann at Traumanic Productions
Mixing by Margus Traumann at Traumanic Productions
Mastering by Minerva Pappi at Waudio
Music video directed and animated by Moreno Tempini at FilmGrain
Tankist is:
Kevin Marks – guitars, vocals
Martin Väinmaa – guitars
Margus Traumann – bass
Simo Atso – drums
Contact:
tankist@tankist.ee
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