Aria-kings of Russian heavy metal(p2)

Blood for Blood

Playing with Fire

Hello all! ok, we have stopped at the album "The speedway hero", which was released in 1987. In 1988 Aria films their first videoclip "Street of the roses" and goes tho the tour to Bulgary and Germany. At the fall the recording of the new album starts, and at that period the producer and director of Aria Viktor Vekshtein leaves them. Next year, the vinyl with new album "Playing with fire" was released. Drumer Maks Udalov leaves our band, Alexander Manyakin becomes a new drumer. This album was a bit minimalistic but the songs were vary(as always=))), Paganini's mystery, battles, opposition agains wars and violence. That is the album's themes. Next year Aria celebrates it's 5 year anniversary! In 1991 our band spend in recording studio quite much time and the new album "Krov' za Krov'"(Blood for Blood) was released. This album is just amasing, like "Speedway hero" it contains not many songs but all these songs are totally different, but at the same time they are a part of one conception: mystique, strange, dark. This album combines hard guitar solos and heavy riffs with melodic and charming ballads. Mu favourite songs from this album are: "Farewell, Northfolk!", "Zombie"," All, that was" and "Follow me". Probably, I will try to translate them in English.

In 1993 Aria record new song "Angel's dust" one of version of this song was recorded and perfomed without Kipelov, the songer. His place for a very short period of time took Alexei Bulgakov. But later Kipelov returned to the band. The good times are coming, because Aria signed the contract with label MOROZ records, soon all the albums were re-released on CDs.

In 1995, Sergey Mavrin, one of the best guitarists in Russia leave the band. And Sergey Terentev became a band member as a guitarist. In 1995 "Night is shorter than day" were released. As for me I did like just some songs of this album, Aria had changed, this CD sounds very different, than the previous ones. An an year later, during the supporting tour of the new album, Aria release their first Live-album "Made in Russia". Then Aria splits into two different projects. Vitaliy Dubinin and Vladimir Holstinin release funny album Avaria, with classical songs, but in blues and easy-listening versions. Valery Kipelov and our old friend Serget Mavrin record "The Dark Ages" hard-n-heavy side project. History is going on...