Artist description "Hailed as the best band in Russia and with over 5000 copies of this album already sold in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, I was expecting big things from this band. And to say that I was suitably impressed on 1st listen would be a major understatement. This band will blow away all competition in the symphonic black metal arena. If you were to take all the best parts of Cradle of Filth, Bal-Sagoth and Dimmu Borgir and throw them together then you can imagine how Tvangeste sound. The musical complexity and song writing intelligence is simply breathtaking with excellent orchestrated keyboards weaving in and out of the guitars and varied vocals (screams, growls, spoken, male and female). I was hooked from start to finish as I was mesmerised by the rich musical textures caressing my eardrums. The production is top notch as well, therefore, accentuating the elegant prowess of this band. This is one of those albums that sounds better and better with each listen and you will hear something different each time. All Hail Tvangeste!!"

Music Style Black metal

Musical Influences classical music, metal music

Similar Artists Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Old Man's Child, Therion

Artist History HISTORY Full version TVANGESTE was founded in August 1996, when Miron advertised for a group creation. After a long search, in May 1998 the structure was finally generated. From that time, Tvangeste consisted of: Miron - guitar, vocals. Founder of the band. Talented slogger with the gerat ability to create striking melodies. Always tries to find a new fresh sound for Tvangeste's music... Nicholay Kazmin (ex-OBSESSION) - guitar. One of the most serious problems in the Tvangeste development was the problem to find a guitar player in Kaliningrad capable of combining the storm speed and melodic minds. With the arrival of Nicholas rhythmic part of Tvangeste, the music changed drastically. Victoria - keyboards. In the autumn of 1998 in Tvangeste comes keyboarder Victoria, playing in Dis Pater (doom) and Romowe Rikoito (gothic). She is a very professional musician with extraordinary feeling heavy, gloomy music. She has brought a lot of new ideas and atmosphere in Tvangeste's music. Vanoe - bass. After a long time with having no bassist has came young, energetic and talented guitar player Vanoe (ex-DIVERSION (death)... In the beginning of 1998 at two studios (DG Sound and Brudenia Rec.) was recorded our single "Blood Dreams" and demo "Thinking...". The first experience in recording has received good responses and reviews in the Russia and CIS countries. After that time, Tvangeste have decided, that frequent concerts are not necessary. Band began our promotion in the spring of 1998, our manager has met the director of "Apostrophe" (the official Century Media representative in Russia). He made an offer to Tvangeste - producing and releasing the first CD with abroad distribution. Tvangeste also received an invitation to take part in a September Cradle of Filth concert in Moscow but an economy crisis in Russia crushed that idea. Then "Apostrophe" refused production on uncertain terms... It was a really black line in Tvangeste's history but from that time band's development grows without any crisis and problems. In January of 2000 Tvangeste have finished our half-year work under our debut album "Damnation of Regiomontum". This full size 50 min album contains 5 tracks. Classical instruments, nice female voice and aggressive speed guitars. It's hard to describe music by words. The style of the Tvangeste's music is a kind of melodic symphonic black metal but made by original way. This album was sold more than 5000 copies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Many Russian magazines, radios and labels have recognized Tvangeste as the best black metal band of 2000 year. In 2001 Tvangeste have signed a contract with norwegian label VALGALDER RECORDS for two albums. Valgalder re'released "Damnation of Regiomontum" for World wide. For Tvangeste it was a great step into the future. There were tons of great reviews. Album was played on many radio stations from all over the world. Valgalder did a great work for Tvangeste's promotion. Band was interviewedby the greatest magazines of Europe, South and North Americas and Asia. Licensing on "Damnation of Regiomontum" was bought by Mexican and **** labels. In june 2001 well known British magazine Live For Metal gave a "Band of the Month" award to Tvangeste. In the March of 2001 Naturelle(Miron's wife) joined the band as a keyboardist. Later her excellent abilities brought a great part of new, fresh melodies... In the beginning of 2001 Miron and Naturelle began the new album creation. It was a horrible long work...months of laborious work. They decided to create not just a "Damnation of Regiomontum" sequel but something more professional, much powerful, really interesting, fresh and new. Baltic Symphony Orchestra was hired for this recording. It was amazing work with the professional people. Naturelle and Katya (first violin in the orchestra) created all scores for each instrument. 300 sheets of notes! Also Prussian Chamber Choir took a part in the recording session. With their greatest help Tvangeste got a lot of dramatic vocal moments in the songs. It was the first experience for Tvangetse to work with professional musicians and this collaboration helped Tvangeste to find their unique style of playing metal music. All lyrics for this album are the one tale based on ancient Prussian legend continuing from song to song. The album was recorded at two studios: well-known Polish metal studio SELANI (Vader, Behemoth, Lux Occulta, Christ Agony, Decapitated, Dies Irae) and TV4 Studios from Koenigsberg. Valgalder Records hired a virtuoso session drummer from Polish band DOMINIUM Cezar Mielko. There were great complications (sometimes even incomprehensible things) during recording sessions, but at last in February 2002 the new album entitled "FireStorm" was finished. Because of those troubles the album release was delayed ONE YEAR! In November of 2002 Valgalder Records sold all rights of this album to a big Japanese metal label WORLD CHAOS PRODUCTION. In December 2002 Tvangeste have signed a contract with World Chaos for "FireStorm" release. As it was agreed album should be released up to March of 2003....

Group Members Michael 'Miron' Chirva - guitar, vocals. Founder of the band. Naturelle Chirva - keyboards Nicholay Kazmin (ex-OBSESSION) - guitar Victoria - keyboards Vanoe - bass

Instruments guirats, drums, cellos, violas, violins, flutes, wind instruments, kettle drums, choir

Albums Damnation of Regiomontum

Press Reviews LIVE4METAL.COM - UK - Band of the Month / June 2001 Tvangeste - Damnation Of Regionmontum By Steve Green To prove that everyone receives equal coverage regardless of stature at Live 4 Metal, I've chosen a band for Album Of The Month that I'd never heard of until a week ago. But the reason I've chosen them is purely to do with the quality of music. It's very hard for an Eastern European band to get noticed in the West. Apart from the staggering amount of quality Polish bands receiving good press, no one else really gets a look in. Hopefully that will all change for Russian Black Metal band Tvangeste who have signed to Norwegian label Valgalder. Their album "Damnation Of Regiomontum" is one of the best debuts I've heard in years. Although they fit nicely into the Black Metal genre, there is so much more to their music. With only 5 tracks and a running time of over 50 minutes, there is always a chance the listener will get bored with long drawn out tracks. Thankfully that doesn't happen here. All the tracks are thoughtfully constructed with plenty of time changes and various influences on show. Symphonic Black Metal merges with gothic/doom segments and even twin guitar harmonies a la Iron Maiden. The vocals range from uniform Black Metal to a more aggressive style that reminded me of Wotans Return from the In The Woods debut Heart Of The Ages. The much maligned (but a favourite of mine) combination of female vocals, violins and keyboards add the all important atmospherics. The female vocals are provided by Olaa who gets a credit as a guest member. Whoever she is, she has the most amazing Operatic voice I've ever heard. I hope she appears on the next Tvangeste album which is to be recorded in the Autumn. No album is perfect, but I don't have a single criticism to make about this one. As I've said before. "One of the best ever debut albums". I'm guessing that Tvangeste are largely unknown around the world, but in Russia and Ukraine and Belarus they've shifted over 5,000 cds and have been recognized as one of the best Black Metal bands of recent years. They've also managed to play with Cradle Of Filth in Moscow. I hope the rest of Europe discovers this band as they deserve to go all the way. Thanks to the internet any band has the chance to be heard due to MP3 files. Go to the Tvangeste site and start downloading the sample tracks, give them a listen and then buy the album. Kogaionon Magazine / Romania TVANGESTE (RUS) - "Damnation of Regiomontum" CD It is incredible how good this album can sound! Although it is almost a year since I have it, I still listen to it any time I have the opportunity and with the same pleasure. Perhaps it is because of its stylistic diversity obtained by these endowed Russians while Black or Doom are solely a few succinct marks. Well, well... what could we find here?!... Female voices, diverse male ones, intense keyboard, violin, cello, ultra-rapid rhytms in accordance with melancholic parts dominated by piano and whispered lyrics, Heavy Metal guitars... The entire complex sound mesmerizes and attracts like a magnet, the rhythms' changes and the amount of trends presented inside the tracks, which are rather too extended (about 9-10 minutes), simply prove seriousness and inspiration. It is curious that the album was conceived almost four years ago yet only after sales of 5000 samples inside the former USSR (tapes only) the album succeeded to penetrate the rest of the world and all due to this fr esh Norwegian label. I truly recommend it!

Additional Info http://www.tvangeste.com

Location Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Region - Russia

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