Gromyka are a rock band formed in Russia in 2014. The group's name refers to the Russian word 'gromko' or 'loudly' and to Andrei Gromyko, former USSR's Foreign Minister. To define their music, Gromyka coined the term 'heavy psychedelic twist': the songs imagine Soviet 1960s/1970s official cultural archetypes as seen in a distorted psychedelic trip, emphasising the music's futuristic paranoia. The already bizarre albeit tuneful blend of heavy garage rock, Italo Disco and Soviet Estrada is overlaid with beeping Sputnik sounds of Stylophone 350S synthesizer and glockenspiel ostinato. Vocals are declamatory and formidable, as though delivered from the party rostrum. Since their first gig in 2014 Gromyka have caused controversy with their stage appearance - official grey suits and painted eyebrows reminiscent of the Brezhnev-era Politburo - but the band denies any political involvement.
