Alexander Gorbachev (the most influential music journalist in the country, ex-editor-in-chief of Afisha magazine) and Ilya Zinin (Moscow promoter, journalist and musician) in their book show that the dashing 90s were not at all a lost time for Russian rock . Fierce St. Petersburg hardcore avant-garde “Chimera”, pure-hearted bard Venya Drkin, rabid Moscow punk intellectuals “Straw Raccoons” and others: this book tells about groups and musicians who did not have the chance to perform in stadiums and on the radio, but without whom it would be impossible to truly understand the history of Russian culture of the last quarter of a century. They are told through the mouths of people who had to experience those years in their own skin: from the musicians themselves to eyewitnesses, supporters and fans like Artemy Troitsky, Yegor Letov, Ilya Chert or Leonid Fedorov. “Songs into the Void” is an important compensation for the gaping gap in the annals of local rock music; it is a collection of human stories, amazing, exciting, almost improbable, often tragic, but nevertheless incredibly inspiring.