The black-art band Medievil (http://medievil.net) and the recording label from Kyiv Griffin Music (http://griffinmusic.org) are about to present the full-length album “Atruta”
This album represents a conceptually new stage of Medievil’s development.
The theme of poison (“atruta” in Belarusian) is binding all the tracks on this album. The music is more heavy, hypnotic and black; it is soaked with swamp atmosphere of stagnation and downfall. Technically it is black metal with additions of old-school death/trash, poisonous vocals and ragged riffs along with classic BM tremolo. Ideologically Medievil is remaining distanced from wilting near-black trends, presenting itself as “res in se". Spreading around as bile, “Atruta” is meant to be an embodiment of evolutionary black art.
The album was in process of creation for quite a long time (2003-2006), due to various reasons. Among those are the re-thinking of creative principles, work on the conceptual side of the record and physical remoteness of Medievil’s members, who resided in different countries.
In November 2003 the video for the song “Blood Comes Black” was shot. Time and location were the most suitable for reproducing the atmosphere of the forthcoming album – cold humid fall, dusk and impassable rotting forest.
In spring 2004 during one of the gigs the video for “In Gloom and Spikes” was shot – a live video with studio sound.
The recording of vocals and all the instruments except for drums was done in Pyre Rex during 2004-2005. the drums were recorded in Zaglada studio in Kyiv in August 2005.
By the end of 2005 the album was mixed, in January 2006 the mastering was complete (Pyre Rex).
Total playing time is 59 minutes.
Tracklist:
1.Everything Poisoned 2.Blood Comes Black 3.In Mist We Stand 4.Now I Fly 5.Atruta (I Dissolve In Poisoned Rain) 6.To Nihil 7.Cycle of Rot 8.In Gloom and Spikes 9.Veil of Poison 10.The Roots Are Torn
The CD-release is supposed to appear by april 2007. except for the tracks themselves the CD will contain a bonus – two videos: "Blood comes black" and "In gloom and spikes".
In Minsk the album will be presented with a live show of Medievil on the festival Shiseido Fest-3 on April 28th, 2007.