Evoking Winds
Evoking Winds | |
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| Origin | Minsk, Belarus |
| Genres | Folk metal, Atmospheric black metal, Symphonic black metal |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | Independent / Unsigned |
| Website | evokingwinds |
| Members | Artyom Prishchepov Alexander Cherepanov Pavel Mikhalyov Yaroslav Korotkin Alia Fay Sergey Shulzhenko |
Evoking Winds is a Belarusian folk metal project founded in Minsk in 2005, with their first full album released in 2008.[1]. Their music contains elements of atmospheric black metal, symphonic black metal, dungeon synth and neo-medieval music, largely focusing the listener on myths and folklore tales of Eastern Europe. The band members are spread across the globe, and currently live in Belarus, USA, Poland, China and Russia. Due to global distance Evoking Winds continues to be a studio project not concerned with live performances.[2] Their latest album "The Heroes: Inspired by the music of Paul Romero with composer's permission" was released on September 10, 2019[3]
Musical style
Music by Evoking Winds includes both folk metal as well as symphonic black metal, dungeon synth and atmospheric black metal. Folk instruments often take the leading role, the songs contain a low amount of repetition and variable song structures.[4] Compared with pure folk metal genre attributes, it's a darker, black metallic form, which dispenses with jigs and reels and is more dedicated to slower, more epic-styled songwriting.[5] In contrast with most of atmospheric black metal bands, singing constantly shifts between black metal and death metal vocal techniques.[6]
The imagery and lyrics are grounded by Eastern European folklore.[7] In the band's early works the songs are arrangements of Belarusian archaic singings.[8] Since 2015[9], the band has added fantasy folklore themes into their music inspired by The Witcher prose of Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski and performed a number of arrangements to fantasy video games (Heroes of Might and Magic II, Heroes of Might and Magic III, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt).
In a 2021 interview[2], the band leader Artyom Prishchepov described the project's main idea as follows: "a happiness and grief for what you love and won’t likely face again. It’s like turning the last page of The Lord of the Rings reading it for the first time. It’s like watching the sunset together with Yennefer in Corvo Bianco understanding that your quest is over. It’s like remembering folklore stories from your granddad who told you about the ancient times. <...> It becomes home for all these feelings."
The project is influenced[2] by both heavy metal bands as Moonsorrow, Catamenia, Summoning[10] and video games original soundtrack authors Jeremy Soule, Paul Anthony Romero[11] and Marcin Przybyłowicz.
Discography
- Main albums[12]
- Towards Homestead (2008), (Re-issued in 2021)
- Silent Dawn (2013), (Re-issued in 2021)
- Conjunction of Spheres (2015), (Re-issued in 2021)
- The Heroes: Inspired by the music of Paul Romero with composer's permission (2019)
- Singles and EPs
- Kaer Morhen (The Witcher 3 OST Metal Tribute) (2022)
- Demos
- Pyl na našych ščakach (Early Recordings 2005-2008) (2008)
- Music videos[13]
- Silent Dawn pt. 2
- Echoes
Members
- Current line-up[14]
- Artyom Prishchepov – folk instruments, melodyon, composing, arrangement, lyrics (2005-present)
- Alexander Cherepanov – lead vocals, guitars (2020-present)
- Pavel Mikhalyov – lead guitars, rhythm guitars (2021-present)
- Yaroslav Korotkin – bass, lead vocals, back vocals (2008-present)
- Alia Fay – flutes, vocals (2019-present)
- Sergey Shulzhenko – keyboards, orchestration (2019-present)
- Additional and past members
- Dzmitry Sarychau – session guitars (2020-present)
- James Knoerl – session drums, programming (2019-present)
- Bob Darling – poetry reading (2013-present)
- Ivan Sereda – arrangement, lyrics (2008-2013)
- Stanislav Shusha – guitars (2005-2015)
See also
References
- ↑ Stormbringer Magazine: Evoking Winds Towards Homestead. stormbringer.at Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Metalhead Community: Evoking Winds Interview. metalheadcommunity.com Retrieved August 15, 2021.
- ↑ Metalhammer Italy: Evoking Winds, present 'The Heroes: HoMM II & III Metal OST'. metalhammer.it Retrieved July 03, 2022.
- ↑ Metal Devastation Radio: Evoking Winds - Towards Homestead. metaldevastationradio.com Retrieved December 21, 2021.
- ↑ Stefan Rosenthal on Evoking Winds. powermetal.de Retrieved September 13, 2021.
- ↑ Evoking Winds – Towards Homestead (Re-Issue Review). metal-roos.com.au Retrieved August 30, 2021.
- ↑ EVOKING WINDS – ‘SILENT DAWN’ - Craig Olbert's review. metal-digest.com Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ↑ Evoking Winds In: Metalized Magazine # 136. Copenhagen, Denmark: Metalized Press 2021, p. 36.
- ↑ Atmoszférikus folk/black metal - Conjunction of Spheres by Evoking Winds. femforgacs.hu Retrieved January 12, 2022.
- ↑ Metalcrypt: Evoking Winds. metalcrypt.com Retrieved September 11, 2021.
- ↑ Fantasía del folclore en la música de Evoking Winds. En su nuevo sencillo “The Heroes”.. indieam.com.mx Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ↑ (July 2022). Discography - MusicBrainz Database. musicbrainz.org Retrieved 15 July 2022.
- ↑ Evoking Winds released a video of ‘Silent Dawn’ FolkMetal.nl Webzine Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ↑ (July 2022). Complete lineup. metal-archives.com Retrieved 15 July 2022.
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