Svalbard (band)

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Svalbard
General information
origin Gomel , Belarus
Genre (s) Martial Industrial , Military Pop ,
Neoclassic , Neofolk
founding 2006
Founding members
Vicheslav Shenderovich

Svalbard is a German-language music project by the Belarusian Vicheslav Shenderovich from Homel .

History and style

Svalbard was started in 2006 as a solo project by Vicheslav Shenderovich. The name refers to the Norwegian archipelago of the same name , on which Russian mining settlements have existed since 1912. In winter 2007 the demo Stille was produced. The first live performance took place as part of the international Crivia Aeterna Festival. Shortly afterwards, the project grew into a band and the style changed from dark ambient to military pop and martial industrial with neoclassical influences. Since then, "KS" has been responsible for the texts. In 2009 the band came under contract with the St. Petersburg record label “The Attack” and released their first album Treue Vaterland Jugend . In addition to own texts, the album contains settings of Friedrich Hölderlin's Das Schicksal , an excerpt from Rainer Maria Rilke's sonnets to Orpheus and Nikolaus Lenau's Despair . The setting of Hölderlins Schicksal is also a musical cover by the band Orplid . The band has been under contract with the German record label Lichterklang since 2010 .

Side projects

In addition to Svalbard, Vicheslav Shenderovich and other musicians founded the band Angry Young Formation in 2010 and joined the Morgentaina project . In 2013 he also founded the purely instrumental neoclassical project Vintersolverv , as well as the Neofolk project Erde , whose debut album was published via Steinklang Industries. On March 23, 2018, the Vintersolverv debut album entitled Frost På Träden was released via Infinite Fog Productions.

Discography

As Svalbard :

  • 2007: Stille (CD; self-distribution)
  • 2009: Pahonya (CD; Stigmata Release)
  • 2009: Treue Vaterland Jugend (CD; The Attack / Indiestate Distribution)
  • 2010: Heimkunft (CD; Lichterklang)
  • 2012: The Last Look Back (CD / CD + CDR; Lichterklang) Published in 2 limited versions.

As earth :

  • 2013: Der Wind (MP3; Crivia Records / Stigmata Release)
  • 2014: Böse Zeit (CD / FLAC ; Steinklang Industries)

As a Vintersolverv :

  • 2018: Frost På Träden (CD; Infinite Fog Productions)
  • 2019: The Way of the Dead (CD; Zhelezobeton)

There are also various contributions to compilations by multiple artists.

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