A track-by-track ride through "Zero Kilometer," the blistering thrash-metal opener of the album 9289 — nine thousand kilometres of steel, snow and sleepless nights, departing from Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station.
How Soviet bootleggers pressed forbidden Western jazz and rock onto discarded hospital X-ray films: the macabre story of the roentgenizdat bone records.
The true story of Nazino Island — the 1933 Soviet deportation that left over 4,000 people dead on a frozen sandbar — and the industrial groove metal track it inspired.