Let me tell you something about Roman Ceglov. This 45-year-old singer-songwriter didn’t crawl out of some glossy LA studio. Nah. He came from St. Petersburg, Russia, spent years with music living in his bones since school, and now he’s planted in Perchtoldsdorf, Austria. And thank God for that, because his track “Fight” — dropped October 23, 2025 — sounds like nothing else you’ll hear this year.
Ceglov doesn’t make music for money. He says it himself: “It just lives in me.” You can hear that. This is a guy picking up his guitar, finding a riff, and letting it rip. And “Fight”? Man, that riff came to him about ten years ago when he was living in St. Petersburg, drowning himself in The White Stripes. You feel that influence immediately — the rawness, the stripped-down guts, the way a simple chord progression can land like a fist.
But here’s where it gets even cooler. Romanrecorded this track in Vienna with a bunch of professional musicians. But not the way you think. No endless rehearsals. No overthinking. They walk in, they listen, and they record the FIRST impression. That’s it. “Fight” was nailed in THREE TAKES during a four-hour session. THREE TAKES. And most of it was recorded live — the band playing together in the room, sweating it out. He added the vocals later, but the music? Pure, genuine, unfiltered electricity.
And the SOUND. Holy hell. His buddy made guitar pedals from OLD IRON. Old. Iron. And he ran that through an Orange amplifier. You know what that gets you? A fuzzy, nasty, thick-as-concrete tone that doesn’t clean up for anybody. That’s the secret sauce right there.
So what’s “Fight” about? It’s about the war inside your own head. Love and hate. Coming and going. The push and pull that tears you apart. It’s an inner and outer fight — no easy answers or happy endings.
This is a guy at 45 years old, after relocating from Russia to Austria over eight years ago, finally putting down the songs he’s carried for a decade. And he’s not chasing streams. He’s chasing something real.
Roman Ceglov made “Fight” in three takes, with old iron and an Orange amp, because that’s how rock should be made. Play it. Feel the fuzz. And don’t you dare ask for a smoother version.