Cannibal Corpse concert is torn in Nizhny Novgorod

The concert of the American Death-Metal group of the Cannibal Corpse group in Nizhny Novgorod was torn on Friday in Friday in the evening of the intervention of law enforcement agencies, Interfax reports.

“The guys played literally five or six songs and here ... The guys were nicked in the form of bright light, they didn’t let everyone out. They didn’t let anyone out and let the“ cannibals ”made the“ cannibals ”from the stage. We spent about 30 minutes in this expectation,” one of the eyewitnesses wrote on the blog. According to him, "riot police answered only one thing - a call was received that drugs were being distributed at the concert."

The network user said that the group went to the audience, apologized for what was happening, thanked them and handed out memorable gifts. At the exit of people, a bus was waiting. "We scored a full Pasik" suspects "and took away in an unknown direction," an eyewitness said.

He noted that even at the entrance to the club where the event was held, there was not only security, but also the police who carefully searched everyone. In addition, there were several picketers with the symbols of the LDPR with posters "against the performance of extremist groups on Nizhny Novgorod land."

The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Region reported that they did not have information on the situation at the concert. “This is not in the reports. Perhaps this is the FSKN event,” said the press service employee. The press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Nizhny Novgorod Region Interfax could not comment on the situation.

The concert organizers say that the concert was not torn through their fault, and that they carried out serious preparatory work before the event, and the forms and methods of ensuring public order were discussed at the highest level.

“We were never inserted into the wheels, on the contrary, both representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the city administration always helped. All the necessary approvals were received, you yourself saw what forces ensured security, a complete cynological check of the club was carried out before the concert, including drugs. We tried to provide and prevent all possible problems in advance. As you know, they did not warn about the FSKN raids,” A representative of the concert agency on the event page on a social network.

In their explanation, the organizers of the concert indicate that after the initiative group of citizens to the city administration and the Department of Culture regarding concerts of the Cannibal Corpse groups on October 10 and Cradle of Filth (Great Britain), on October 15, they ordered a psychological linguistic examination of their repertoire. By decision of the examination, "works are possible for club performance."

In addition, an agreement was reached that "the artists during concerts undertake to prevent the manifestation of antisocial acts, inciting racial, political, national and other growth."

The director of the concert agency Leonid Yakovlev guaranteed that faces under 18 years of age unaccompanied will not be allowed there, and songs that have not passed the examination will not be heard at concerts.

Earlier it was reported about the request of Orthodox activists to prohibit Cannibal Corpse's performances. Thus, the chairman of the Public Organization of the Orthodox Union, Roman Pluta sent the statements to law enforcement agencies, demanding to recognize as extremist and ban the speeches of musicians in Krasnodar. According to the activist, the texts of their songs "are filled with death, violence, sexual violence and in general the most diverse sexual perversions, necrophilia, cannibalism," and in one of the compositions a call sounds: "Kill priests!".

The prosecutor's office did not find good reason to cancel the group concert in Krasnodar, but warned the organizers about liability for changing the show program. It was confirmed that the Cannibal Corpse group will be performed only by songs that have passed a linguistic examination and do not contain extremist manifestations and calls.

The prosecutor's office also turned to the leadership of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Krasnodar with the demand to timely identify and suppress extremist actions during the concert.

Cannibal Corpse was founded in Buffalo (USA) in 1988. Group albums were prohibited in many countries of the world, including New Zealand, Australia and Germany. The tour of the Americans is scheduled from October 2 to 12 in ten cities of Russia and Ukraine, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Omsk.