Резня
The band's second album, 'Reznia' ('Massacre'), recorded in the summer of 2002, reached a noticeably higher musical plane. A performance marking the November 7th holiday was covered in an extensive spread in the national daily newspaper 'Chas'. The group began receiving invitations to tour abroad, including in the Lithuanian town of Visaginas. The year 2002 was also marked by Artur Petrov issuing a public newspaper challenge on August 27 to a duel against Aivars Garda, the publisher and editor of the ultranationalist newspaper DDD, for insulting the Russian people. Garda declined the challenge.
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Then arrived the central event in the band's history: on November 20, 2002, Artur Petrov was arrested by the Security Police of Latvia on charges of illegal storage of TNT, incitement to overthrow the constitutional order (even their debut album 'Ne ssy!' was entered into evidence by prosecutors), and plotting an assassination attempt against the President of Latvia. The presidential accusation fell apart immediately; the remaining charges took eighteen months to resolve, seven months of which were spent in Riga Central Prison. During this period the band attained legendary underground status, with two songs broadcast on the Russian television network RTR in a documentary on radical leftists. Despite strict post-release police supervision for a year (daily check-ins at the local precinct and an 8 PM to 10 AM home curfew), once Budulai was released the band resumed performances at rock concerts and launched an official website (www.viselica.lenin.ru), making their entire catalog freely accessible.
Tracklist
| 1 | Резня | 2:37 | |
| 2 | Не ссы! | 2:55 | |
| 3 | Убивать | 3:19 | |
| 4 | Двинск | 2:22 | |
| 5 | Королю горы | 1:20 | |
| 6 | Да, Смерть! | 3:39 | |
| 7 | Отрицалово | 2:20 | |
| 8 | Про Отчизну | 2:52 | |
| 9 | Krievu okupanti | 4:09 | |
| 10 | Революция | 4:10 | |
| 11 | Гимн | 1:47 | |
| 12 | Noise | 0:53 |
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