Boney NEM
| Boney NEM | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Metal |
| founding | 1994, 1998 |
| resolution | 1996 |
| Website | http://www.nem.ru/ |
| Founding members | |
| Kirill Nemolyayev | |
| Konstantin Selesnjow (until 1995) | |
| Andrei Gucklenhoff (until 1995) | |
| Stanislaw Vosnesensky (until 1997) | |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Kirill Nemolyayev |
Guitar, bass, synthesizer, backing vocal |
Sergei Bogolyubsky |
Guitar, bass, synthesizer, backing vocal |
Igor Lobanov |
| former members | |
| Natalija Ljanowa (1995–1997) | |
guitar |
Georgi Samojlow (1995–1997) |
guitar |
Gleb Andrianow (1995–1997) |
guitar |
Alexander Bodrow (1998) |
bass |
Weronika Fotijewa (1995–1997) |
bass |
Alexander Krylov (1998) |
Drums |
Sergei Podresenko (1997) |
Drums |
Andrei Krotow (1998) |
Boney NEM ( Russian Бони НЕМ ) is a Russian metal band that covers predominantly pop hits from Russian and Western music in metal style. It was founded in 1994 by Kirill Nemoljajew and is still active today. The name of the band is a corruption of the well-known disco formation Boney M. , which enjoyed great popularity in the former Soviet Union.
The band is not characterized by a consistent style, but plays the whole spectrum of hard'n'heavy.
history
According to the band's own account, Boney NEM has its roots in 1993, when the flourishing Russian pop music pushed the rock music that emerged in the Soviet years underground. Influenced by Western tendencies, the repressed metal musicians would have leaned towards the most extreme styles out of protest and out of the will to be as "cool" as possible.
Nemoljajew , at that time part-time presenter of the music television program Nerschawejetschka , would have felt the need to make fun of these two "poles of bad taste". Together with friends from the band Trisna , he came up with a concept that would reduce the aforementioned extremes to absurdity. The core of this concept was the union of death metal / grindcore drives with the lyrics of the shallow pop songs.
The first album bore the ironic title of the music program Melodii i ritmy zarubezhnoy estrady (German: melodies and rhythms from all over the world ). The album includes parodic cover versions of L'été India and It's My Life , among others . It was published by Polygram Russia , a subsidiary of the PolyGram label . By 2007 the band had produced eleven albums that were published by various music publishers.
occupation
Current occupation
The band has two line-ups: the actual band Boney NEM , which records albums, and an additional line-up for concerts.
So Boney NEM is:
- Kirill "NEM" Nemoljajew (vocals)
- Sergei "BOG" Bogoljubski - guitars, bass, synthesizer, backing vocal
- Igor "LOB" Lobanov - guitars, bass, synthesizer, backing vocal
Concert cast
- Kirill Nemoljajew (vocals)
- Alexander Gudwin (guitar, vocals)
- Arkadi Lebedew (bass)
- Nikolai Golubew (guitar)
- Anatoli Natarowski (drums)
Discography
- 1995 - Мелодии и ритмы зарубежной эстрады ( melodies and rhythms from abroad )
- 1997 - Мелодии и ритмы зарубежной эстрады - 2 ( melodies and rhythms from abroad - 2 )
- 2001 - Ни "Бэ" Ни "Мэ" или В Мире Животных ( Neither "Bäh", "Mäh" or "In der Tierwelt" )
- 2001 - The Very Best of Greatest Hits
- 2001 - В Вологде-где ( In Vologda-wo )
- 2003 - День Победы ( Victory Day )
- 2003 - Romantic Collection
- 2005 - Крайняя плоть (release: May 15, 2005) ( foreskin )
- 2005 - Исподнее (release: October 7, 2005) ( Below below )
- 2006 - Нас не догонят ( You won't get us , even the Russian title of a hit by tATu )
- 2007 - Тяжелые песни о главном -1 ( Hard songs about the most important things - 1 )
- 2008 - Тяжелые песни о главном -2 ( Hard songs about the most important things - 2 )