Description

Legion band was founded back in Moscow in 1979 by Oleg Tsarev, Alexey Bulgakov, Alexander Zvetkov and Sergey Komarov. They recorded first 6-songs demo-tape in 1981. It was very good melodic hard-rock, but the band couldn’t play live due to KGB prohibition. In 1984 Alexander Zvetkov was replaced by 2 guitarists: Alexey Chernyshev and Sergey Stashkovitch. This formation of Legion played their first live concert in ‘Serp And Molot’ club but the show was stopped by militia. Only ‘perestroyka’ helped the band to escape jailhouse – in 1986 Legion was officially registered as a musical band in the Soviet Ministry of Culture. The second demo record ‘Apocalypse’ was made in June 1986 and the tape sold very well all over the USSR. This demo opened up a lot of doors for the band that started touring all over the country. The band went through some line up changes during 1989 and the band returned to the scene in 1991 with their first full length ‘Knights Of Cross’ (the only album of Legion that has English lyrics). The album was released by PolyGram Russia on LP in 1992. This album was pressed in 10 000 copies and was soon sold-out. Another pressing was released in 1994 on the Death City/Polygram label. The album never got any release outside Russia. The band have only released albums in their home language after this lp. With ex-Aria singer Aleksey Bulgakov.

Track listing:
1. Knight Of Cross
2. Hold On
3. Hot Blood
4. Keep Your Faith
5. Banners High
6. Mistery
7. Fire
8. Stay Alone
9. Priority In Battle