Wormwood (Vinyl)
With their sophomore album, "Wormwood" ("?????") that was released in 2017, DYMNA LOTVA returned to the topic of Chernobyl. The duo had created their first song, 'A Solitary Human Voice' ('??????? ???????? ?????'), based on quotes from Lyudmila Ignatenko, the widow of a Chernobyl liquidator, whose husband Vasily Ivanovich Ignatenko largely inspired the HBO series "Chernobyl". Musically, Wormwood" ("?????") is an extension and expansion of their 2016 debut full-length "The Land Under The Black Wings: Swamp" ("????? ??? ??????? ???????: ??????") that was largely based on Nordic black metal with added Slavonic elements. Lyrically, the album is not part of the trilogy that DYMNA LOTVA began with their debut album "The Land under the Black Wings: Swamp" ("????? ??? ??????? ???????: ??????") in 2016. The founding duo started out with an elaborate concept. It was based on the main events in the course of their country's history and it's legends, while also containing many references to classic Belarusian literature. The musical fire of composer Jauhien Charkasau and vocalist Katsiaryna "Nokt Aeon" Mankevich was lit by the news that Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich had won the Nobel Prize in Literature. On the same day, the duo created their first song based on quotes from Lyudmila Ignatenko. Following the release of the second full-length, both founding members had to flee their native Belarus due to political persecution and attempts by the Lukashenka regime to censure and suppress their art. On their third album, "The Land under the Black Wings: Blood" ("????? ??? ??????? ???????: ????"), DYMNA LOTVA. Beautifully and powerfully expanded their style, which is based on Nordic black metal, but also takes elements from doom as well as traditional music. The duo has moved beyond the post-black metal tag and created melancholic, haunting melodies that bear their unmistakable trademark and results in a unique emotional sound. The name of the band, DYMNA LOTVA, means 'Swamp in Smoke' and relates to the atrocities surrounding the burned villages of Polesie - a marshy region along the River Pripyat that is now divided between the modern-day states of Belarus, Ukraine, and Poland, which has endured bloody massacres and brutal conflict in the past.
Track List
- ??????? ???????? ????? (A Solitary Human Voice)
- ??????? (Pripyat)
- ????????? ?????? ???? (Leaving Native Houses)
- ????? (Wormwood)
- ?????????. ??????????? (Chernobyl. Unborn)
- ???????? ???????????? ????? (A Solitary Human Voice II)
- P.S. ????????? ????? (P.S. Funeral Of The Ground)
- ??????? ???????? ????? (A Solitary Human Voice)
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