Temnozor
Encyclopedia
Temnozor is a pagan metal
NSBM
band formed in 1996 in Obninsk
, Russia
. According to the band in statements on its website, it was formed to express the pride its members had of being Slavic
. Temnozor started out as a raw black metal
band with folk influences, but folk music has increasingly played a part in their music throughout their later albums. Their lyrics include Slavic pagan and anti-Christian themes.
They have played live several times over the years, most recently at the "White Thunder Roars Over Europe" tour in 2009 with Kroda.
In 2010, the band was to play in Roermond
, Netherlands
, on the Azijnfabriek stage, which sparked some controversy. The local mayor Van Beers has asked the national intelligence agency (the AIVD) to research the case. The stage stated that they not allow the band to play if they were judged by AIVD to be a risk. The band was considered to have extreme right-wing ideals. On the 4th of January, the show was cancelled.
Pagan metal
Pagan metal is an umbrella term for heavy metal music which fuses extreme metal with "the pre-Christian traditions of a specific culture or region through thematic concept, rustic melodies, unusual instruments or archaic languages", usually referring to folk metal or black metal. The Norwegian band...
NSBM
NSBM
NSBM is an initialism which may refer to*National Socialist black metal, a music sub-genre.*Nederlandse Stoomboot Maatschappij, a Dutch shipping line later absorbed into Nedlloyd as the Koninklijk Nederlandse Stoomboot Maatschappij ....
band formed in 1996 in Obninsk
Obninsk
Obninsk is a city in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located southwest of Moscow. Population: Obninsk is one of the major Russian science cities. The first nuclear power plant in the world for the large-scale production of electricity opened here on June 27, 1954, and it also doubled as a training...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
. According to the band in statements on its website, it was formed to express the pride its members had of being Slavic
Slavic peoples
The Slavic people are an Indo-European panethnicity living in Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, North Asia and Central Asia. The term Slavic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people, who speak languages belonging to the Slavic language family and share, to varying degrees, certain...
. Temnozor started out as a raw black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
band with folk influences, but folk music has increasingly played a part in their music throughout their later albums. Their lyrics include Slavic pagan and anti-Christian themes.
They have played live several times over the years, most recently at the "White Thunder Roars Over Europe" tour in 2009 with Kroda.
In 2010, the band was to play in Roermond
Roermond
Roermond is a city, a municipality, and a diocese in the southeastern part of the Netherlands.The city of Roermond is a historically important town, on the lower Roer at the east bank of the Meuse river. It received city rights in 1231...
, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, on the Azijnfabriek stage, which sparked some controversy. The local mayor Van Beers has asked the national intelligence agency (the AIVD) to research the case. The stage stated that they not allow the band to play if they were judged by AIVD to be a risk. The band was considered to have extreme right-wing ideals. On the 4th of January, the show was cancelled.
Discography
- 1996 Be Oden Narod Slavensk (Demo)
- 1998 Sorcery is Strengthening the Black Glory of Rus'Sorcery is Strengthening the Black Glory of Rus'Sorcery is Strengthening the Black Glory of Rus' is the debut album by Russian heavy metal band Temnozor.- Track listing :#"Sorcery Is Strengthening the Black Glory of Rus'" – 2:29#"B'Oden Narod Slavensk" – 5:18#"Dib-Dub-Snop" – 5:05...
- 2001 Fragments... (Demo)
- 2003 Sorcery of Fragments (Best Of compilation)
- 2003 Horizons...
- 2005 Folkstorm of the Azure Nights
- 2007 Eastern Hammer (Split with GravelandGravelandGraveland is a Polish black metal band which was formed in 1992 by Rob Darken . The lyrics of Graveland are strongly inspired by nature, paganism and nationalism.-History:...
, Nokturnal MortumNokturnal MortumNokturnal Mortum is a Ukrainian black metal band from Kharkiv.-History:Nokturnal Mortum started as death metal band Suppuration in 1991, then turned to black metal and changed name to Crystalline Darkness but "had to change the name back in 1993/94 to Nocturnal Mortum because there already existed...
and North) - 2010 Урочища Снов (Haunted Dreamscapes)
External links
- Temnozor official website, in English and Russian.