"Damn these cats can play, are they from LA, NYC, London? Pushking reminded me of early Guns 'N Roses, and Vintage Queen ...hey wait, these dudes are from Russia!!!"
Glenn Hughes
Pushking, formed in 1994, are by now the most popular and famous Metal/Rock band from Russia.
The band around founder and only long-term member Konstantin Shustarev, released 15 albums which made them local stars in their homeland of Russia. A place where Rock and Roll had always been something even listened to in secrecy, forget about actually playing it live! However, Pushking did not fl inch from writing a Rock-Suite called "Freddie", dedicated to Freddie Mercury and even if the band's 2008 album "I Believe" (full of incredible depth and unusual combination of musical styles) is considered as a new chapter of the band's development, they never managed to escape from their Russian background.
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