British music journalist Nina C. Alice once said of Lemmy Kilmister's Mötorhead lyrics, "Those lyrics are so heavy, you have to weigh 'em." Yeah, it's a little cockney, but we know what she means.
Like Lemmy, Frogberg gets that sometimes stripping down a story into component phrases has the opposite effect of increasing the weight of the subject matter. And that's what he's done here, in a brutally heavy restatement of Wes Siler's adventures in a Soviet-era military factory, now abandoned in Siberia. Someone get out their drop-D-tuned Les Paul and make with the metal.
Once proud
Ever cold
Ural bikes
Company sold
Profits rule
Empties town
Heat steam
shut down
Wild dogs
Rule landscape
Buildings fall
Empty shape
Industrial waste
Potential lost
Perestroika
At what cost?
Hope glimmers
Machines operate
Rugged bikes
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