DRUDKH

The twelfth full-length studio album by cult Ukrainian Atmospheric Black Metal band.
Drudkh is ushering in the cold darkness and alluring decay of autumn with this album.
The album offers an incredible emotional maturity and natural flawlessness amidst prolonged russian aggression against Ukraine. While it includes only four songs, it rages on for over 45 minutes, delivering an epic maelstrom of grandiose melodies, devastating aggression, and the cold atmospheric passages that have come to define Drudkh’s unmistakable sound.
Drudkh was founded twenty years ago, uniting two black metal enthusiasts – Roman Saenko and Thurios (before in Hate Forest) are in the band from the first days, but Krechet and Vlad joined them four years after. So without any further ado we just can admit, this line-up is really stable and cohesive, united by the same artistic ideas – love of nature, fondness for poetry and local folklore.
Through disastrous and desperate perspectives, there’s always some kind of hope, some bright spark of light in the thickset of dense forest; something promising and reassuring, even in the darkest of times. And it doesn’t matter how raw they play in their devastating fury or how painfully beautiful they present their creativity, even during the most aggressive and bestial parts this epitome of melancholy still lingers. The album will steal your attention, enticing you in the spiritual depths with tranquil passion and devilish sangfroid. Strange cathartic feeling, when the opposite emotions transform into absolute harmony.
Season of Mist Underground Activists, 2022 (SUA127D). Made in France. Pressed in Austria.


Tracklist:
1. Нічний / The Nocturnal One 10:22
2. Млини / Windmills 11:31
3. Листопад / November 08:25
4. Поки зникнем у млі / Till We Become the Haze 15:33
Total playing time: 45:51 min.


Samples: https://drudkh.bandcamp.com/