Description
label: Avantgarde Music
format: 12"LP
year: 2020
country: Russia
genre: pagan folk black metal
Orange Marble Vinyl limited to 150.
After four years of relative quiet in contrast to his usual practice of releasing new studio material at least once a year - an indication that a new direction in both musical style and lyrical themes is under way - Russian one-man post-BM band Sivyj Yar is back in action with a new album. Featuring stunning cover artwork courtesy of Ukrainian artist Sir Gorgoroth, "Grief" takes up the theme of the hopes, longings and aspirations of Russian peasantry, whom Sivyj Yar multi-instrumentalist sole member Vladimir regards as the carriers of Russian culture, and how these desires have been frustrated over long centuries. Listeners might expect that the dominant music style on this album would be a mix of depressive black metal and folk or a fusion of the two.