{{Short description|Ukrainian band}} {{refimprove|date=September 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Dead Rooster<br>Мертвий Півень | image = Mertvyi Piven.jpg | alt = | caption = | image_size = | alias = | origin = Lviv, Ukraine | genre = Rock, progressive rock, punk rock, folk | years_active = 1989–2011, since 2023 | label = | website = [http://deadrooster.org.ua www.deadrooster.org.ua] | current_members = Roman Chayka <br/> Oleh Suk <br/> Alex Slobodian <br/> Yurko Chopyk <br/> Marian Kozovy, <br/> Yurii Roketskyi | past_members = Andriy Pyatakov <br/> Serfym Pozdnyakov <br/> Vadym Balayan <br/> Lyubomyr Futorsky (deceased) <br/> Andriy Nadolsky <br/> Yaryna Yakubyak <br/> Roman Ross <br/> Ivan Nebesnyy <br/> Andriy Pidkivka <br/> Misko Barbara (deceased) }} thumb|250px|Misko Barbara, lead vocalist. '''Dead Rooster''' or '''{{lang|uk-latn|Mertvy Piven|italics=no}}''' ({{langx|uk|Мертвий Півень}}) is a Ukrainian rock band that was formed by Lyubomyr Futorsky in 1989. The first concert was held in 1990 at the first Vyvykh festival. Their debut album ''Eto'' was recorded in 1991, at the end of the Chervona Ruta festival, where the group took first prize in the category of performers' art songs. Dead Rooster began as an acoustic band. During the second half of the 1990s, they evolved into a grunge/art-rock band, though their music cannot be described by one particular style. Dead Rooster has changed personnel several times.
Many of the band's songs used lyrics from Ukrainian poets, including Yuri Andrukhovych, Maksym Rylsky, Oleksandr Irvanets, Viktor Neborak, Yurko Pozayak, Serhiy Zhadan, Natalka Bilotserkivets, Ihor Kalynets and Taras Shevchenko. The album {{Lang|uk-latn|Pisni Mertvoho Pivnya}} is based on Andrukhovych's poetry collection of the same name.
In 2009, their song "Kiss" ("{{Lang|uk-latn|Potsilunok}}") was featured in the soundtrack of ''Cold Souls'', an American film directed by Sophie Barthes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=doluchaysia |date=2009-10-16 |title=A Song By Ukrainian Musicians Becomes The Soundtrack To The American Film - [UA] Ukrainian Film Office |url=https://filmoffice.org.ua/2009/10/16/a-song-by-ukrainian-musicians-becomes-the-soundtrack-to-the-american-film/ |access-date=2024-09-21 |language=en-US}}</ref>
On May 22, 2023, at the concert "Bird. Serhiy Zhadan and Friends" the band appeared after a 12-year break with new vocalist Yurii Roketskyi.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zaxid.net |date=2023-05-23 |title=«Це буде інша історія» |url=https://zaxid.net/tse_bude_insha_istoriya_rozmova_z_muzikantami_gurtu_mertviy_piven_n1564045 |access-date=2024-09-21 |website=ZAXID.NET |language=uk}}</ref>
== Name origin == The history of the band's name is connected with the {{Lang|uk-latn|Stary Lviv}} cafe, where they often met. At the entrance to the institution hung a weather vane (an iron figure of a rooster), which they called dead. Hence, the idea of the name "Dead Rooster" arose.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Історія львівського гурту “Мертвий Півень” |author=Olha Bomko |date=2022-05-26 |url=https://lviv-trend.in.ua/uk/articles-3009-istoriya-lvivskogo-gurtu-mertvyj-piven |accessdate=2022-05-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927035112/https://lviv-trend.in.ua/uk/articles-3009-istoriya-lvivskogo-gurtu-mertvyj-piven |archive-date=2022-09-27 |url-status=live |language=uk |trans-title=The history of the Lviv band "Dead Rooster"}}</ref>
== Members == ;Current * Roman Chayka * Oleh Suk * Alex Slobodian * Yurko Chopyk *Maryan Kozovyy *Yurii Roketskyi
;Past * Andriy Pyatakov * Serfym Pozdnyakov * Vadym Balayan * Lyubomyr Futorsky (died 2023)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://focus.ua/uk/culture/550970-shok-i-sum-pishov-iz-zhittya-odin-iz-zasnovnikiv-gurtu-mertviy-piven |title="Шок і сум": пішов із життя один із засновників гурту "Мертвій Півень" |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2023-02-21 |website=focus.ua |publisher=Фокус |access-date=2024-02-07 |archive-date=2023-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221023654/https://focus.ua/uk/culture/550970-shok-i-sum-pishov-iz-zhittya-odin-iz-zasnovnikiv-gurtu-mertviy-piven |url-status=live |language=uk |trans-title="Shock and sadness": one of the founders of the band "Dead Rooster" passed away}}</ref> * Andriy Nadolsky * Yaryna Yakubyak * Roman Ross * Ivan Nebesnyy * Andriy Pidkivka * Misko Barbara (died 2021)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://focus.ua/uk/culture/495142-v-harkove-umer-frontmen-izvestnoy-ukrainskoy-rok-gruppy-mertviy-piven-misko-barbara |title=У Харкові помер фронтмен відомої української рок-групи "Мертвий півень" Місько Барбара |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2021-10-11 |website=focus.ua |publisher=Фокус |access-date=2024-02-07 |archive-date=2021-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021125049/https://focus.ua/uk/culture/495142-v-harkove-umer-frontmen-izvestnoy-ukrainskoy-rok-gruppy-mertviy-piven-misko-barbara |url-status=live |language=uk |trans-title=Misko Barbara, the frontman of the famous Ukrainian rock group "Dead Rooster", died in Kharkiv}}</ref>
== Discography == # 1992 – {{lang|uk|Ето}} ({{lang|uk-latn|Eto}}) # 1993 – {{lang|uk|Мертвий півень '93}} ({{gloss|Dead Rooster '93}}) # 1994 – {{lang|uk|Підземне зоо}} (1994) {{gloss|Live in studio (Pidzemne zoo (1994) Studio Live}}) # 1995 – {{lang|uk|Live у Львові}} ({{gloss|Live in Lviv}}) # 1996 – {{lang|uk-latn|IL Testamento}} # 1997 – {{lang|uk|Міський бог Ерос}} ({{lang|uk-latn|Misky Boh Eros}}) # 1998 – {{lang|uk|Шабадабада}} ({{lang|uk-latn|Shabadabada}}) # 2003 – {{lang|uk|Афродизіяки}} ({{lang|uk-latn|Afrodiziaky}}) # 2006 – {{lang|uk|Пісні Мертвого Півня}} ({{lang|uk-latn|Pisni Mertvoho Pivnya}}) # 2008 – {{lang|uk|Кримінальні сонети}} ({{lang|uk-latn|Kryminalni Sonety}}) # 2008 – {{lang|uk|Вибраний народом}} ({{lang|uk-latn|Vybrany narodom}}) # 2009 – ''Made in'' {{lang|uk|ЮА}} ({{gloss|Made in UA}}) # 2011 – {{lang|uk|Радіо Афродита}} ({{lang|uk-latn|Radio Afrodyta}})
== See also ==
== References == {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book |last1=Yevtushenko |first1=Oleksandr |author-link = Oleksandr Yevtushenko|title=Українська рок-антологія: Легенди химерного краю|date=2004 |trans-title=Ukrainian Rock Anthology: Legends of the Chimerical Land |pages=128–130|publisher=Апостроф|url=http://irbis-nbuv.gov.ua/E_LIB/PDF/ukr0007230.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260124010811/http://irbis-nbuv.gov.ua/E_LIB/PDF/ukr0007230.pdf|archive-date=24 January 2026|language=uk}} {{refend}}
== External links == {{commonscat|Mertvyi Piven}} * [http://deadrooster.org.ua Official website] * [https://nashe.com.ua/artist.htm?id=5 Lyrics] * {{Discogs artist|Мертвий Півень}}
{{Authority control}} Category:1989 establishments in Ukraine Category:2011 disestablishments in Ukraine Category:Ukrainian rock music groups Category:Musical groups established in 1989 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 2011 Category:Soviet rock music groups