The band posted the folllowing: “To verify what’s happening and the place we’re going from right here: Sure, our fifth album Преступления против человечества (Crimes In opposition to Humanity), to be launched on August 18th, can be our final one. After a sequence of live shows we are going to steer our vessel to the docks. We are going to play our final present sooner or later in 2024. After that we are going to proceed with precisely the identical line-up, however with a brand new title and new musical parts. The language of the band can be English.
“The legacy of Kypck would be the totality of those 5 albums, which we additionally hope to collect as a box-set or such sooner or later sooner or later. And we can be happy with what we have now achieved with Kypck as a cultural institution, regardless of the state of the world could be.
“The rationale for all that is apparent: the Kremlin has remoted Russia from a lot of the world by beginning a full-blown struggle, invading and terrorizing an unbiased nation. This can be a fucking crimson line. Cultural co-operation and excursions, amongst many different issues, have turn into inconceivable, and underneath the brand new legal guidelines we may for instance be prosecuted when crossing the border just for talking out loud about what we see is true, or having written for instance this assertion. Persevering with this band and touring in Russia is just inconceivable.
“We’ve got a whole lot of buddies in all international locations concerned within the struggle, and that can at all times stay so. These folks don’t have anything to do with the present bullshit and we very profoundly acknowledge that. We are going to cherish all of our recollections with you – of our years and excursions overlaying for instance St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kursk, Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Kirov, Samara, Ryazan, Tula and Ulyanovsk, a lot of which a number of occasions. We additionally get a whole lot of messages from Russia privately, as voicing out opinions publicly has dire penalties. We thanks for each message. We’ve got learn all of them.
What involves the struggle itself, we stand with Ukraine till the tip. They’re those who had been attacked, and are placing on one hell of a struggle for what’s and at all times can be rightfully theirs.
“As a band and a cultural outfit we have now at all times steered away from present politics, however our traces had been crossed on February twenty fourth, 2022 – it is a fucking struggle. It is about life and demise, reality and lies, proper and incorrect – the appropriate to dwell as a sovereign nation.
“For these knuckleheads and trolls repeating the Russian state media propaganda on any of our platforms, ask yourselves just a few questions: Which nation invaded one other unbiased nation, began a struggle and is continually finishing up missile strikes towards Ukrainian cities, shelling residential buildings? Is the president of Ukraine with a partly Jewish background actually a Nazi? Is Europe actually dominated by satanists and junkies? Do you actually swallow all this shit? How deluded are you? Why does Russia now stand with different authoritarian regimes? Why is the unbiased media silenced, and even single phrases are actually unlawful to make use of? Why are Russian athletes now blocked out of most world sports activities, for nothing? Why are your artists and particular person residents voicing out their opposition persecuted and jailed? And once more: who attacked who? You recognize the fucking reply.
“For all others: We welcome you aboard on our remaining voyage with the brand new album. We promise it will likely be price it.”