| Dead Rooster Мертвий Півень | |
| Origin: | Lviv, Ukraine |
| Genre: | Rock, progressive rock, punk rock, folk |
| Years Active: | 1989–2011 |
| Website: | www.deadrooster.org.ua |
| Current Members: | Roman Chayka Oleh Suk Alex Slobodian Yurko Chopyk Marian Kozovy |
| Past Members: | Andriy Pyatakov Serfym Pozdnyakov Vadym Balayan Lyubomyr Futorsky (deceased) Andriy Nadolsky Yaryna Yakubyak Roman Ross Ivan Nebesnyy Andriy Pidkivka Misko Barbara (deceased) |
Dead Rooster or Ukrainian: Mertvy Piven|italics=no (Ukrainian: Мертвий Півень) was 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 (named for the flower Chervona ruta), 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 is based on Andrukhovych's poetry collection of the same name.
In 2009, their song "Kiss" ("") was featured in the soundtrack of Cold Souls, an American film directed by Sophie Barthes.
The history of the band's name is connected with the 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.[1]