National Radical Party

The National Radical Party appears in the book as an extremist racial group operating in Moscow amid the early-1990s overlap between radical right-wing politics and heavy metal. Its clearest documented link to the music scene was its nomination of Korrozia Metalla’s singer, Sergei Troitsky, as a mayoral candidate. The account presents this alliance as a striking political convergence, while offering little information about the party’s internal structure or wider program.

Political Setting

The party is introduced within a broader account of heavy metal’s reception in Russia and other places formerly governed by communist regimes. The book suggests that the music’s forbidden or anti-system image could resonate with young people in those settings, and describes a new alignment between metalheads and right-wing political movements. A contemporary Wall Street Journal article, as summarized in the book, characterized the convergence as one between nationalistic former Soviet Communists and Russian metal fans.

Candidate and Music Scene

The National Radical Party nominated Sergei Troitsky, the singer of Korrozia Metalla, as a candidate for mayor of Moscow. Known as Spider, he was associated with a band whose performances and public image combined heavy metal spectacle with overt racial hostility. The book notes that the band’s song “Kill the Sunarefa” was especially popular among its fans and describes the surrounding scene as more than a musical phenomenon. The nomination therefore placed a musician identified with this provocative subculture directly within electoral politics.

Significance and Limits of the Account

The party’s significance here lies chiefly in what its nomination illustrates: the book’s account of Russian metal culture is not confined to music, but follows the points at which musical identity and radical politics meet. The episode is used as an example of the broader association between violent metal subcultures and right-wing movements. The evidence does not detail the party’s membership, organization, electoral platform, or the result of Troitsky’s candidacy, so the nomination remains the clearest specific measure of its activity in this account.