Another Show in MacHall

Lagutenko

Secret Broadcast

Secret Broadcast

Friday, Feb 15 there was the gig on Ballroom. Guess who was there? Neither Canadian, nor American or British band. That time it was show of Russian pop-rock band Mumii Troll. Well, I am not their big fan or reall appreciator cuz I prefer a bit different styles of music(louder, noisyer and harder=). However; this is a second time when I see this band's liveshow, last time it was in my hometown Yakutsk in autumn 2003. Now in Ballroom it was not bad show, which reminded me home=). There were lot of Russians(well, mostly Russians). It started later that it should be, but the beginning was quite good. Calgarian band "Secret Broadcast" opened the show. I liked how they played, only 3 guys were perfoming good pop-rock. Later, after around 30 minutes of Secret Broadcast, Mumii Troll have finally appeared on the stage! Their lead-singer Ilya Lagutenko is known for his funny voice and weird manner of dancing. Any way he was pretty funny and the public(especially female) liked this and shouted after every song.

The disatvantage of the show that it was a bit too short and expencive. But I liked it anyway.

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...

Aria-kings of Russian metal!

Megalomania
Who are you with?
Hero of the asphalt

One of my favoutite rock-bands ever, and one of the first i have ever heard is Aria(Ария) heavy

metal band, which have been founded in 1985 by guitrist Vladimir Hostinin and bassist Alik Granovsky. The first album "Mania Velichia"(Megalomania) was released in October 31, 1985. This line-up at that time was: Valery Kipelov-vokal, Vladimir Holstinin-guitar, Alik Granovsky-bass guitar, Kiril Pokrovsky-keyboards and Alexandr Lvov-drums. Viktor Vekshtain became the director of the new formed band. Before this, Valery Kipelov was one of the singers in "Singin' Hearts" ensemble. This albym was quite successful and many compositions were look like a bit songs of Iron Maiden, British heavy-metal band. The band had started the tour and

after this began to record the second album "S Kem Ty?"(Who are you with?). The line-up changed Pokrovsky and Lvov had left the band,and new members Andrey Bolshakov and Igor Molchanov joined. Andrey Bolshakov was inspired by Judas Priest band, and this album was a bit different, then the previous one. And songs from this album had became so popular, that they occupied first positions in many Soviet charts. And at this time Aria is splitting in two bands. Andrey Bolshakov, Alik Granovsky and Igor Molchanov leave the band to found their own thrash-metal band Master(we will talk about this later;=))). Of course new musicians apeear: Vitaly Dubinin(I wrote a paragraph in Writing class, remember?), guitarist Sergey Mavrin and drumer Maks Udalov. It is time for raising legend! In 1987 brand new cult legendary album "Hero of the asphalt" also known in English as "Speedway hero". This is the realy amazing album! Aesthetics of bikers, mustique and patriotism is in 6mezmerizing and outstanding tracks! This tracks are: "Serving to the evil", " Hero of the asphalt", "Dead zone", "1100", "Street of the roses" and "Ballad about ancient russian warrior". This was the first part of this essay. I will write more later, and now some photos. To be continued...

About...

Hello all. Let's talk about some hobbies? For example music. What type of music do you like. I like many different styles and types of music. For example Metallica. I like "Master of puppets" album. It is one of the first albums of thrash-metal! Heavy guitars, attacking drums and loud bases sound very nice and cool! I also Hammerfal.Hammerfall is power-metal band. Power-metal is music style with fast speed, melodius vocal and it looks like medieval folk ballads in modern, heavy variant.


The other music style i like very much is industrial and post-industrial. EBM(Elecrtonic Body Music) sounds very progressive and sometimes agressive=). I like many industrial bands as you can see in bookmark "about me". One of my favourite EBM-formation is Front Line Assembly, they are from Canada. Front Line Assembly sounds very synthetic, technological and sometimes apocaliptic. Now I am listening their new album "Artifical Soldier" and remixes compilation "Falout".