Sivyj Yar is a one-man post-black metal band formed almost twenty years ago in the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Since 2014, multi-instrumentalist and composer Vladimir Vishniakov has been working closely with Avantgarde Music to release his music endeavors, and A Scarlet Sunset Over The Horrid Abyss marks a new milestone in the artist’s path.
A Scarlet Sunset Over The Horrid Abyss features poetry by Andrei Bely, symbolist Russian poet from the early XX century, as well as archival photographs taken in the Kolyma camps — one of the most terrible places in the new history of Russia, a remote, eastern area of the Russian country where dozens of gulags held Soviet POWs and political prisoners in extreme conditions until the ‘70s.
A first single, “Everything Under The Snow Will Hush, Then Die”, is available for streaming on YouTube and Bandcamp.
Sivyj Yar’s post-black metal is intended for all those willing to go one step forward, not stopping at the music itself, but open to learning history. A Scarlet Sunset Over The Horrid Abyss will be available on CD and LP on February 28th, 2025. Preorders will be live soon.
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