The End of the Film is a rock band from Russia. The guys announced themselves and their musical preferences in 2001 with the release of their debut album Goodbye, Innocence!
By 2001, the tracks "Yellow Eyes" and a cover version of the track by the group Smokie Living Next Door to Alice ("Alice") were already playing on Russian radio. The musicians received the second “portion” of popularity when they wrote the soundtrack for the series “Soldiers”.
The composition and history of the creation of the group The end of the film
Like any musical group, the End of Film group consisted of soloists who came and went (there was a change of musicians). List of effective soloists of the rock band:
- Evgeny Feklistov responsible for vocals, acoustic guitar, author of music and lyrics for most of the tracks;
- Petr Mikov responsible for stringed musical instruments;
- Alexey Pleschunov - bass guitarist of the band;
- Stepan Tokaryan - keyboards, backing vocals
- Alexey Denisov has been a drummer since 2012.
The musical group is simply impossible to imagine without the leader and author of most of the songs of the musicians Evgeny Feklistov. Without exaggeration, we can say that it was he who "pulled" the group.
In the late 1980s, Evgeny met Vladimir "Juma" Dzhumkov. The natives of Estonia met on the territory of Tallinn. In the city, Vladimir worked as a sound engineer in the theater, and in his free time he used his position to record songs.
Vladimir, together with Evgeny Feklistov, worked on Feklisov's disc "Pathology". Later, their paths parted, and each took up his own project.
In the early 1990s, Feklistov moved to the cultural capital of Russia, St. Petersburg. In the mid-1990s, with the financial support of Alexander Florensky, in the Tropillo studio, Evgeny recorded the disc "The bourgeois and the proletarians will clap for me." It was the first album to go on sale.
After recording the album, Evgeny met Mikhail Bashakov, and they had the idea to create their own rock band. In 1998, the composition of the musical group was approved, and it was given the name "The End of the Film".
In St. Petersburg, the tracks of the new group sounded on the radio. The musicians found their first fans. In addition, in the late 1990s, the band participated in the Staircase and Singing Nevsky music festivals.
The beginning of the creative career of the group
In the spring of 2000, musicians at Oleg Nesterov's recording studio recorded their debut album Goodbye, Innocence! Music lovers appreciated the creations of the End Film group and singled out the tracks: Yellow Eyes, Puerto Rican, Loneliness Night, Joe.
In 2001, the musical composition "Yellow Eyes" headed the charts of the radio "Nashe Radio", and the video clip got into the top 50 clips of 2001 on Russian MTV.
After some time, the songs “Night of Loneliness” and “Alice” sounded on the radio. The last track has become the hallmark of the Russian rock band.
In 2003, the soloists of the musical group "The End of the Film" presented their fans with their second studio album, "Stones Fall Up".
Fans were pleasantly surprised by the approach of the musicians. Some wrote that the guys created original and unconventional music.
2004 is the year of success and the peak of the band's popularity. This year, the musicians presented the song "Youth in Boots", which became the soundtrack to the Russian TV series of the same name.
2005 was marked by the release of the album "Zavolokl". Starting with some kind of mystical spell (“Zavolokl”), the musical group in the examples demonstrated all the shortcomings of modern society.
A few years later, the musicians released the album "Fatal Eggs". The main theme of the record was sexual freedom. It was this disc that became the most expensive work since the birth of the End Film group.
It took fans 6 years to see the new Faraway collection. The album was released in 2011. Feklisov dedicated the collection to his brother. The tracks "Heaven is silent", "Farewell", "Love is stronger than death" were recorded as a response to the death of a dear person. The album is very personal.
A year later, the disc "For all 100" went on sale. The album includes old and new tracks of the band. The collection includes strong songs. Mandatory listening tracks: “Call”, “Music played” and “No cigarettes”.
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In 2018, the End of Film group released the album Sin City. This year, the musicians celebrated the 20th anniversary of the founding of the musical group. If we talk about the musical component of the disc, then it is dominated by energetic and grotesque styles.
In 2019, the group toured Russia. In particular, the musicians visited institutions in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The discography of the rock band was replenished with the album "Retrograde Mercury" in 2020. The disc consists of ten tracks. The musicians say that in "pre-pandemic compositions" they managed to maintain the optimism that is so lacking today.
