For her latest piece, Salvatore chose to bring light to a Russian Punk Rock band from the "dark corners" of Moscow, and they are talking about how they decided to form a band, what they are up during these trying times, their plans for the future, some very unique inspirations behind their music, all unquestionably influenced by anything and everything spooky.
Salvatore: So, please let me know something about your new music and band.
Gleb: Well, we are a Punk Rock band from the dark corners of Moscow, Russia, mostly inspired by any kind of Horror subjects: from classical Horror movies and literature to the scariest stories and characters of the real world. Bands such as Misfits, Samhain, Blitzkid, Balzac are, you might say, among our musical influences. 
Misfits from back in the day.
JD27: The band is Gleb Kasady (guitars, vocals and primary creative force), Myers (guitar, secondary creative force and primary driver), Dildo (drums, secondary driver and the propagandist of suburban lifestyle) and me, John Doe (bass, backing vocals, primary destructive force and a boss wannabe). We’ve played with each other in different combinations since 2012, but conjoined our efforts as Chaneys on Halloween's Eve of 2017.
We introduce to you: Chaneys!
S: How hard is it for you during the current Covid-19 crisis?
Dildo: Boooring, practising on a pad and electronic drum kit, desperately missing live shows. Gleb: Still got a lotta work to do. Still got a lotta music stuff to write and learn. This is of course much more convenient to stay home due to self-isolation for me personally than moving across the city on everyday basis to do things. But yes, I miss our rehearsals and gigs hardly. JD27: Actually every band, especially a DIY band like us, has a lot of things to do besides practicing and playing gigs, so we're still pretty busy. S: What led you into a life of music? Dildo: I spent my school years trying to drum without a drum kit. I’ve been spending hours on my meals with headphones in my ears, drumming with spoons on plates and tables, even when my meal was already cold. I used pens, pencils and books at school. Kids around called me weirdo and my notebook drumming caused problems during lessons. My mom was regularly called to the principal and I had to visit a child psychologist to find out if there was something wrong with me. By the end I finally reached the agreement with school administration to keep my drum kit in exchange that I will perform with the local school band on different events. I entreated my father to buy me my first drum kit, which is still alive and stored in my garage now. By the way, when I assembled the kit, I was already able to play simple beats because of my “kitchen” and school practice. Everyone was pleasantly surprised! Gleb: In my case it’s not what but who. In the 70's my father played guitar in sorta boomer Rock band. He can also play the piano and accordion. When I was 5 or 6 he tried to teach the piano to a stupid kid who I was back then. So he decided to send me to music school. Later in high school for the first time I started playing guitar in a Punk band with my friends. JD27: I always was into music, like singing songs in our yard at the age of 3, playing father's LPs on a stereo (we destroyed them all, luckily they all were total garbage) or playing along the songs from tapes on a broom a little later. But as a child, the idea of getting music classes scared me to death, so when I learned, that in Punk Rock you don't have to know, how to play an instrument, and still can be cool and famous, I knew that it’s what I’m going to do. Despite what I said, I've chosen Flea of RHCP as my first role model, and he's a hell of a bass player. 
Flea rocking on stage.
S: What’s your thoughts on your current musical journey?
Dildo: All I can say is that I still attend drumming lessons and there is no limit in mastery. . Gleb: Who knows to what shores the ship on which I am travelling in music might lead me? Who knows where I am now? JD27: If I could give any advice to a younger self, I’d say to be focused, to cut the crap and don't waste time on things, that lead obviously nowhere. S: Where do you see yourselves in the future? JD27: If in a couple years I'll be spending half of the year in a smelly van with these guys, I'll be totally satisfied. Gleb: Worldwide tours, sold out stadium gigs, billions of sold records - all this stuff in the future, hahaha! S: What was the inspiration for your first/last song? Gleb: Well, for the first song ['Victim Of Abuse'] in my current band the inspiration was the story of one of the UK's most notorious serial killers Robert Maudsley. I don't think I've written the last song for my band yet. 
Serial killer Robert Maudsley. I dare you to look him up, his story is B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
S: What will be the first thing you say or think when you become huge?
Dildo: Hell yeah! Gleb: Lots of chicks and beer! At last! Screw my job! JD27: "Wake up, motherfuckes, we gotta go to the next city!" S: Anything big planned in the immediate future? Gleb: At this point, we plan to get back to work on our LP as soon as all this Covid-19 crap is over. We are working on a couple of music videos as well. JD27: Also we have a new song recorded and waiting to be released on the double LP compilation with some rad bands. And some other really cool and unusual projects, that we don't want to talk about right now. So subscribe to our social media [show them some spooky love on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube] for updates and you won't miss it. Anyway, if you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
S: Which musicians would you consider your inspiration and why?
Dildo: Travis Barker. I like his style and his musical amplitude. His influence on me could not be underestimated, because when I was a kid, during my kitchen band school practice I mostly listened to Blink-182. Gleb: There are quite a lot of musicians that I can learn a lot from, and I can learn something different from each of them. JD27: I agree with Gleb, there are a lot, depending on what I'm listening to the most right now. 
Blink-182 with Tom was the best Blink.
S: If you get the chance to share a stage with any band or musician, who would it be?
Dildo: Well, I don’t know... Blink 182 with Tom DeLonge, Blitzkid. Gleb: Black Sabbath. JD27: I'd say, that playing with pretty much any major artist at a huge venue in front of a huge crowd would be thrilling. But, as far as I know, we play Horror Punk, so I would definitely let Misfits open for us. S: Where do you plan to tour? Gleb: Oh, we had plenty of plans for the tour before the pandemic started and countries started closing their borders: Germany, Austria, Italy. I hope everything will work out when this whole virus situation is over. JD27: Hopefully, everywhere. Wherever our catafalque brings us.
S: Can you tell us something about one or two of your tracks?
Gleb: ‘Do You Really Think I’m Dead?’ is a fast-paced battle hymn suitable for the rising of the living dead. JD27: We often use it to open our sets, I think it’s a great opener. Gleb: ‘Ghost Stories’ is about how everyone has their own ghost stories, their own way to escape for a while from the constant struggle with the world around them for survival. ‘Farewell’ is a Pop-Punk song about the fact that a maniac killer and his victim at the time of murder become in some sense the closest persons and it is pointless to deny it. ‘Boundless Oblivion’ is a bit in the style of Trash Punk, it pushes the boundaries of meaningless cruelty common to all mankind. In fact it is meaningless only at first glance and this makes the picture even darker. ‘Madeline’. There are hidden or unconcealed dirty thoughts in the mind of every person. That keeps alive such a genre as Sexploitation. JD27: It’s named after Madeline Smith, the British actress of said genre, among others. Hopefully we’ll make a music video for it. Gleb: The song called ‘Creepy Hands’ tells us the story of a tortured hero with a broken heart who rises from the dead and chooses bloody revenge over eternal suffering. Although the plot is not the most exciting, but the whole song sounds very cool, this is one of my favourite tracks of our band.
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