“Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position."
"But on what then?"
"On the feeling that is in me and in him," he pointed to Timokhin, "and in each soldier".
An extract from the book "War and peace" by Leo N. Tolstoy.
Discussions concerning the feeling making a human soul stronger than steel or a stone formed the basis for a joint project of the martial/neofolk duet ORDER OF VICTORY and the abstract ritual ambient/post-industrial band SACRIS TANDEM. What is the reason why "in chess… a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company"? Exactly at war, two forces face each other: a human soul and a war God encased in armor of the most heat resisting and bulletproof materials. What will be stronger? Therefore, by means of their creative work "Strength Of Materials" the musicians tried to answer this question.
The album is released as CD limited to 400 numbered copies in A5 digifile format.
