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Artist: Хрустальный Шар (Khrustalnyi Shar)
Release: Demo 1982
Genre: Traditional Doom Metal, Hard Rock
Country: USSR (Leningrad)
Bitrate: 192 kbps
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"Crystal Ball" was one of the early heavy bands in the USSR, founded in 1980, and active until at least 1988 (by then already known as "Larks").

This demo is a decent trad doom, in the spirit of Sabbath, or the same Saint Vitus. The quality of the surviving recording is not the best, but who cares, if the music is solid.

Svyatoslav Zaderiy - bass
Andrey "Rabbit" Khristichenko - vocals
Vladimir "Bloody" Bogatyrev - guitar
Mikhail Nefedov - drums
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1. Продавец песен (Song Seller)
2. Лица (Faces)
3. Моя герла живет в общаге (My girl lives in a hostel)
4. Стена (The Wall)
5. Одиночество (Loneliness)
6. Красотка (Beauty)
7. Кривые зеркала (Crooked mirrors)
8. Лицемер (Hypocrite)

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This is a bootleg (?) from 1983.

There is also a demo of them from about 1984 (they changed their name several times then), but it's already (what interestingly) punk rock.