Death Vomit

Death Vomit appears in the book as one of several bands promoted by the Russian right-wing newspaper Den in a back-page feature titled “Rock—The Russian Resistance.” The reference documents the band’s place in a politically framed music feature, but does not supply details about its members, origins, recordings, or political commitments.

Appearance in Den

Den combined standard political commentary with music coverage. Its back-page “Rock—The Russian Resistance” feature promoted Korrozia Metalla, Exorcist, and Death Vomit, presenting heavy music as a way to draw younger readers toward the paper. Death Vomit is named as part of that lineup; the account gives no further description of the band’s music.

Music and political opposition

The feature sat within a publication whose politics were explicit: elsewhere in the same newspaper, photographs of prisoners of war being marched to internment camps appeared with a caption threatening democrats. Den’s Deputy Chief Editor, Vladimir Bondarenko, described the paper and the musicians it promoted as sharing an oppositional position and having mutual use for one another. In this context, Death Vomit’s inclusion shows how the newspaper brought music into its political outreach, not that the band itself endorsed the newspaper’s politics.

Limits of the record

The book does not identify Death Vomit’s members, describe its releases or performances, or explain how the band related to Den beyond being named in its feature. Its significance in this account is therefore specific: it serves as an example of heavy-metal acts recruited into a Russian right-wing publication’s effort to reach a younger audience.