Raskolnikov

Raskolnikov is a Franco-Spanish-Swiss post-punk / shoegaze band formed in 2015 in Geneva.
Raskolnikov’s music is as melancholic as it is hypnotic and energetic, with existentialist lyrics.
It’s a blend of the dark, floating world of coldwave, the rebellious energy of post-punk and the melodic density of shoegaze.

The band’s name refers to the protagonist Rodion Raskolnikov in Fedor Dostoyevsky’s socio-psychological-philosophical novel “Crime and Punishment” (in Russian: “Prestuplenie i nakazanie”, 1866).
The Russian word “raskol” means schism, a break with the conventions of the musical genre to which the group’s work refers, as well as with nominative notions of individual and collective being, reason and madness, isolation by society.

The first 7-track album, “Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall”, was released in 2017.
The second 10-track album, “Lazy people will destroy you”, was released in 2020.
A live album was recorded in 2021 and released with the title “Don’t want to die of boredom today”.
Then “Gorgon’Zola” is released in 2025.