Ankhagram

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Ankhagram
General information
origin Yekaterinburg , Russia
Genre (s) Funeral doom , post-rock
founding 2005
Website www.facebook.com/Ankhagram
Founding members
All instruments, vocals
 Ilya "Dead" Ogurtsov
Current occupation
Keyboard
 Ilya "Dead" Ogurtsov
Drums
 Alexandr Anygin
Electric bass
 Daniil Perepelkin
guitar
 Andrey Alexandrov
guitar
 Ilya Yekimov

Ankhagram is a funeral doom project founded in 2005 .

history

Ilya "Dead" Ogurtsov founded Ankhagram in 2005 as a solo project in Yekaterinburg . Until 2014, Ogurtsov remained the sole member of Ankhagram. He only formed a band for an appearance in 2014, which he then presented as a permanent member of the group. Publications beyond a recording of the performance were not available.

In the course of his active career, Ankhagram released a large number of albums and singles, sometimes several within a year. Ogurtsov collaborated with companies such as Silent Time Noise , Satanarsa Records , Endless Winter , Maltkross Productions and Stygian Crypt Productions . In addition, the project participated in split releases with Satan Crux and Renascentia .

reception

Ankhagram received varying degrees of attention in the course of the activity. In particular, the album Where Are You Now , published in cooperation with Silent Time Noise , received international reviews and received mostly positive ratings. Other publications such as Under Ruins (Satanarsa Records) and Thoughts (Endless Winter), as well as Neverending Sorrow , which was published by Stygian Crypt Productions, also received attention . These albums were also mostly praised.

As Satanarsa Records Under Ruins in 2008, the album was judged to be a good release in the genre with no particular creativity or independence. Neverending Sorrow , first published in 2007 and re-released in 2010 , was described by Fédéric Cerfvol in his review for the webzine Doom-Metal.com as “one of the, if not the best publications in Funeral Doom” of 2010. In reviews of other webzines, the album was also praised and described, among other things, as "a really strong Melodic-Doom-Metal work that primarily relies on a multi-layered atmosphere". Where Are You Now , first published in the same year via Silent Time Noise , was described by reviewers of various webzines as a very good album in the genre. Meanwhile, the music has been dubbed "the talented Slavic versions of Shape of Despair or Colosseum ". Other reviews also praised the album and referred to the pairing of the Russian funeral doom stereotypes with the melodic approaches of Shape of Despair. Thoughts from 2012 was once again internationally acclaimed. Only in a review written for the Webzine Metal-Temple wrote Jorge Zamudio, with the exception of his otherwise good assessment, that too many Doom-Metal clichés were used on Thoughts and Ogurtsov wasted his talent in a repetitive atmosphere.

style

The webzine Doom-Metal.com describes the music played by Ankhagram as "an original mixture of funeral doom and post-rock ." The music is "Synth-heavy and full of influences from world music." Meanwhile, early releases are still on Death Doom and Gothic Metal oriented. As a comparison, anathema are named for the early albums . Shape of Despair is mentioned for later albums . According to his own statements, Ankhagram has oriented itself towards post-rock since the line-up was reorganized into a band constellation. With the recurring reference to Shape of Despair, reviewers cite Colosseum and Comatose Vigil as further comparative variables .

In a review of the album Where Are You Now , the reviewer "KwonVerge" describes the music as "Funeral Doom with a Death Doom Metal approach and an orchestral touch." The guitars are played deeply distorted but melodious. The bass playing is hardly present, while the rhythm is called "precise". A guttural growling is introduced as vocals . Ambient-heavy keyboard passages complement the sound. Later publications attest the deepening of the spherical and atmospheric melancholy. In addition, there were samples called “atmospherically down-to-earth” , which, according to Bertrand Marchal from Doom-Metal.com, create an unbroken harmony with the reduction of the instrumentation.

Discography

  • 2005: Doom, Death and Darkness (demo, self-published)
  • 2006: Suicidal Chaos (split album with Satan Crux, self-published)
  • 2006: When the Shadows Die (single, self-published)
  • 2006: ReANKHarnation (album, Maltkross Productions, self-published, re-release 2014 via Satanarsa Records)
  • 2007: Neverending Sorrow (album, self-published re-release 2010 via Stygian Crypt Productions)
  • 2008: Letters from the Past (compilation, self-published)
  • 2008: Under Ruins (album, Satanarsa Records, re-release 2010 via Endless Winter)
  • 2010: The Gardens of Soulless (split album with Renascentia, self-published)
  • 2010: Where Are You Now (Album, Silent-Time-Noise)
  • 2012: Letters from the Past Vol. 2 (download compilation, self-published)
  • 2012: Thoughts (album, Endless Winter)
  • 2013: The Future (EP, self-published)
  • 2016: Пошумим (live video recording , self-published)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Ankhagram. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Bertrand Marchal: Ankhagram: Under Ruins. doom-metal.com, accessed March 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Fédéric Cerfvol: Ankhagram: Neverending Sorrow. doom-metal.com, accessed March 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Mourning: Ankhagram: Neverending Sorrow. aristocraziawebzine.com, accessed March 18, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Denis Brunelle: Ankhagram: Neverending Sorrow. seaoftranquility.org, accessed March 18, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Metalhead: Ankhagram: Neverending Sorrow. squealer-rocks.de, accessed on March 18, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b c d Frédéric Cerfvol: Ankhagram: Where Are You Now. doom-metal.com, accessed March 18, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b c KwonVerge: Ankhagram: Where Are You Now. metalstorm.net, accessed March 18, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b Vlakorados: Ankhagram: Where Are You Now. aristocraziawebzine.com, accessed March 18, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Francesco Scarci: Ankhagram: Where Are You Now. the pit of the damned, accessed March 18, 2020 .
  12. ↑ a b Bertrand Marchal: Ankhagram: Thoughts. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 18, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Mourning: Ankhagram: Thoughts. aristocraziawebzine.com, accessed March 18, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Requiem: Ankhagram: Thoughts. Funeral Wedding, accessed March 18, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Jorge "The Zarto" Zamudio: Ankhagram: Thoughts. metal-temple.com, accessed March 18, 2020 .