Vir' [2008] Horna

The second full-length album, Horna (inspired by the Finnish-Karelian folk-epos “The Kalevala”) was completed in late autumn 2008 by Milushkin alone (bass, voice, assorted metal objects, plates & pipes, violin, mouth organ, music & lyrics) with occasional support from Alexei Krupa from ALETERA and OCTOBER.14.1964 (theremin), Karl (drums), and Ilya Alexeev from ANKYLYM (trumpet). Part dirge ambient-drone atmospherics, part noisy black-doom horrors, the album's five epic-sized compositions sucked the inspirations from Lustmord, Skullflower, Earth, Sunn0))), Khanate, Nadja, Jesu, and belched them out into breathtakingly emotional, bass generated audio nightmares with the signs of melodic and rhythmic organization. An avalanche of dark apocalyptic images hovering over countless layers of sound and distorted sporadic vocals (all lyrics are in Russian). Recommended. (5 tracks - 43 min.)