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Zerstörer is the twelfth studio album by Kazakh metal band Holy Dragons. The album is a concept album, released in 2012.

The album.
Zerstörer’s themes are the Cold War and nuclear weapons. The group refrains from chronological retelling of events, focusing on individual moments.

History of creation
Zerstörer was created at a time when the band was not fully formed and was functioning as a studio project. After leaving the vocalist and bassist in 2009, the band returned to the English-language format. As the vocalist and bass guitarist of the group is a man hiding under the pseudonym Zerstörer. The original version of the album was recorded in 2010, and was published the same year under the title Zerstörer - The Chapters of the III World War History ghost as a "free-to-play online release."

By the end of 2010, after Ian Breeg joined the band as a vocalist, the band decided to re-record the vocal parts and subsequently release the album in CD format. On November 6, 2012, the album is released as a CD on the label (Cyprus), the CDs themselves are printed in Germany. The album cover was painted by German artist Patrick
Wittstock (Patric Wittstock)

Differences between the 2010 web version and the 2012 CD version
In addition to a completely different vocals and vocal melodies changed in some places, in the 2012 version there is an intro "Voices of Lie", as well as a fragment-insert Insomnia in the middle of the song Cuban Crisis. Insomnia was performed by Jürgen Sanderson. Cuban Crisis/Insomnia is currently the band's longest-running track (14.21).

List of compositions

Song themes
Doomsday Angels tells the story of the “predictors” of the nuclear Apocalypse and their followers.

The Man Who Saved the World is an instrumental composition dedicated to Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, who prevented a potential nuclear war on September 26, 1983, when a US attack was reported due to a false alarm system.

Crush of Chrome Dome tells about nuclear weapons incidents, namely the plane crash over Thule Base on January 21, 1968 and the plane crash over Palomares on January 17, 1966, in which nuclear bombs were destroyed and radioactive contamination of the area occurred.

Project A119 is a secret plan to drop an atomic bomb on the surface of the moon, developed by the US Air Force in the 1950s (see Project A119).

AN602 - Wind of Hate is a song about the test of the "Tsar Bomb" AN602 (aka "Kuzkina Mother") on October 30, 1961 - the most powerful explosive device in the history of mankind.

The Cuban Crisis is a chronology of the Caribbean Crisis.

Norad Alert - about cases of false operation of missile attack warning systems. The song most fully reflects the very first case of false positive - November 9, 1979.

Hl 7442 - Song of the Inz