The Industrial Twilight: Старый Киев

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Старый Киев - "Белый шум" [2015]

Artist: Старый Киев

Title: Белый шум

Genre: Black Metal/Noise

Country: Ukraine

Release date: 2015

Track List:

Шперрунг
Скалярное произведение векторов
Аксиома шума
Битва за пустоту
Гибель Сатурна

This very obscure Kiev-based project was started in 2013 by the members of no less obscure depressive black metal band *Dog* , initially as an attempt to start a new wave of raw black metal. While their early demos have gone mostly unnoticed, their last 2015 demo does deserve attention - but if you like noise more than black metal. While it's still based in raw black metal, it's aptly called "While Noise", and shows that the aesthetics of early post-USSR noise projects were still alive in the mid-2010s.

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I created this blog mostly because I wanted to practise my English skills, and to showcase the industrial, gothic, punk, metal, neofolk and progressive rock scene of Russia/ex-USSR and Eastern Europe (especially Hungary) in the meanwhile.

As you can see, this blog doesn't take itself seriously enough, but I hope I'm doing good enough with my reviews even if my proficiency in English is limited. Along with the aforementioned stuff from Eastern Europe, I occasionally post some classic and rare albums that aren't to be missed, and generally whatever I want. Other categories of note:

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