History Music / RadioTapok

* ItMakesSenseInContext: "White Lily" includes a line about the Luftwaffe "smelling" her coming. The historical Lydia Litvyak was a GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak and got the nickname because she liked to wear perfume and put flower bouquets in her Yak-1's cockpit.

* {{Crossover}}: Music/{{Sabaton}} guest-stars in the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRow6G5wQIw "The Attack of the Dead Men"]], having taken Oleg prisoner for covering their songs in TheTeaser in a spoof of UsefulNotes/ColdWar spy thrillers. Joakim also accompanies Oleg in the closing chorus.
-->'''Joakim Brodén:''' Is this the Russian who's been translating our songs?\\

...That is, until 2019, when Swedish PowerMetal band Music/{{Sabaton}} discovered some of his covers of their songs and [[ApprovalOfGod got in touch with him]]. They helped him make and film a Russian-language version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRow6G5wQIw "The Attack of the Dead Men"]] as a cross-promotion for their upcoming album ''The Great War'', releasing it the day before the album release. Sabaton later brought him onstage for two shows of their 2020 Russian tour, which was cut short shortly after due to the onset of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, and returned the favor with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TjXanLjpTU an English-language cover]] of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw0jQBLbhLU "Battle for Moscow"]]--itself [[{{Homage}} written in the style of Sabaton]].

Radio Tapok has continued recording covers since then, but has also started writing original songs. He announced his first full-length album, ''Наследие'' (''Naslediye'', "Heritage") on 8 February 2022.

* EndOfAnAge: The refrain of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_7s5hx_0E "Tsushima"]] mournfully describes the Baltic Fleet as "the last fleet of the emperor". Historically, the UsefulNotes/RussoJapaneseWar cost UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia almost her entire navy and was a massive blow to the nation's prestige, becoming one of the factors in the build-up to the UsefulNotes/RussianRevolution and more immediately led to the failed 1905 Russian Revolution that Lenin would later consider to be essentially "dress rehearsal" for the successful 1917 Russian Revoltion.

** The full runtime of ''Наследие'' (which includes "Tsushima" and "Battle for Moscow") consists of songs about Russian military history from UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia to the Chechen Wars.

* CurbStompCushion: Essentially the theme of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tv8QIAM7t0 Peter's Guard]]". It describes the battle of Narva of 1700, when Peter I's army was crushed by Swedish army one third its size due to bad positioning, poor training, and betrayal of a high-ranking foreign officer, and lost most of its officers and armaments. However, two regiments of Peter's "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_army_of_Peter_the_Great toy army]]" and one "Westen-style" regiment retained the battle order and repulsed all attacks, retreating only after nightfall. They were later designates as "Guards Regiments", and granted the right to wear red stockings, as "they stood knee-deep in blood" in this battle.

* YouShallNotPass: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw0jQBLbhLU "Battle for Moscow"]] tells the story of the Soviet Union's all-out defense of Moscow against the German Army in 1941.

* EndOfAnAge: The refrain of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_7s5hx_0E "Tsushima"]] mournfully describes the Baltic Fleet as "the last fleet of the emperor". Historically, the UsefulNotes/RussoJapaneseWar cost UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia almost her entire navy and was a massive blow to the nation's prestige, becoming one of the factors in the build-up to the UsefulNotes/RussianRevolution.

** The verses of "Operation Allied Force" sound way too much like "Inside the Fire" by Music/{{Disturbed}} to be a coincidence.

* ''Наследие'' (2022)

* LastStand: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_7s5hx_0E "Tsushima"]] describes the phenomenal journey halfway around the world that the Russian Baltic Fleet took to even ''reach'' the battlefield in the Far East, even though it was doomed. It came to be known in naval history as "the Voyage of the Damned".

Radio Tapok has continued recording covers since then, but has also started writing original songs.

* {{Homage}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw0jQBLbhLU "Battle for Moscow"]] is patterned after Music/{{Sabaton}} songs, while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_7s5hx_0E "Tsushima"]] leans on Sabaton for the chorus and Music/{{Manowar}} for the verses.

Abramov got his start singing and playing guitar for the band Music/{{PopCorn}} from 2009 to 2016. After leaving the band, he started performing as a one-man heavy metal tribute act, recording Russian-language {{cover}}s of mainly Western rock and metal songs, and releasing them through streaming services and his [[https://www.youtube.com/c/RADIOTAPOK YouTube channel]]. He gained a decent following in Russia but was virtually unknown outside of it...

-->'''Joakim Brodén:''' So, this is the Russian who's been translating our songs?\\
'''Pär Sundström:''' Yes. I have to admit, these Russians are hard to catch.\\
'''Joakim:''' So what should we do with him?\\

'''Pär:''' Well, we have a new album coming out. I have an idea.

* TheCameo: Music/{{Sabaton}} guest-stars in the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRow6G5wQIw "The Attack of the Dead Men"]], having taken Oleg prisoner for covering their songs in TheTeaser in a spoof of UsefulNotes/ColdWar spy thrillers. Joakim also accompanies Oleg in the closing chorus.

* CoverVersion: He's done everything from Music/{{Rammstein}} to Music/{{Disturbed}} to Music/FooFighters to Music/TwentyOnePilots. His BreakthroughHit[[invoked]] in the west was Music/{{Sabaton}}'s "Attack of the Dead Men".