Ukrainian black metal
| Ukrainian metal | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | Heavy metal |
| Cultural origins | Early to mid-1980s, Ukraine |
| Typical instruments | Electric guitar, bass, drums, vocals |
| Regional scenes | |
| Ukraine | |
Ukrainian metal is the metal music scene of Ukraine. The most common Ukrainian metal subgenres are black, pagan, folk and death metal. The most popular and well-known bands are black metal Nokturnal Mortum, Khors, death metal Fleshgore, Firelake, folk metal Tin Sontsia, Veremiy. Among the biggest festivals are Metal Heads Mission (Crimea), Carpathian Alliance (Lviv oblast), Global East (Kyiv), ProRock (Kyiv).
Adem was one of the first thrash metal bands to emerge from Kyiv. They were pioneers of the style in Ukraine and former USSR in the middle of 1980s.
Adem was formed in 1985 by founding members Yuriy Fedoretenko (guitar) and Viktor Lukianov (bas guitar), later joined by the drummer Simon Rymar and second guitar Volodymyr Stetsenko. At the end of 1986 the group line-up was changed - Yuriy Fedoretenko and Volodymyr Stetsenko were replaced by Ihor Shilin (guitar, vocals) and Vadym Virvalsky (second guitar).
In late 1980's Adem recorded two studio albums: "Time of Maddness" (1988) and "Golgotha" (1989)
The band was well received on their first tour around Ukraine and Russia in 1987. The next tour to Rock Festival "Drama" in Gdańsk (Poland) took place in 1989.
In 1990 the group's line-up changed again. Ihor Shilin, Simon Rymar and Vadym Virvalsky left the band, and were replaced by Andriy Antonenko (guitars, vocal) and Yarik (drums). The new album "Fight Without Rules" was released in 1996. Adem stopped touring and recording sometime in 1997.
In 2003 ex-drummer Simon Rymar collected and restored previously recorded albums "Times of Maddness" and "Golgotha" at the Backstage studio (United States). The materials were used by Moon Records Studio recording company to release these two albums in the Ukraine in 2004.
New album "The Souls of Aggression" was released in 2005. It includes best songs from the previous years.
TOK was formed in 1986 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR (today Dnipro, Ukraine).
Nokturnal Mortum started as a death metal band called Suppuration in 1991, then turned to black metal and changed name to Crystaline Darkness but "had to change the name back in 1993/94 to Nocturnal Mortum because there already existed a band with that name in western underground." Then the band "changed the letter so that we wouldn't find a band with the same name again like it was the case with Crystaline Darkness." Nokturnal Mortum gained their first Western recognition with the release of their album Goat Horns, their second full-length album, notable for having two keyboardists play on the album, often on the same song, and for mixing traditional Ukrainian music with black metal.
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