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Band's History
The story of the band with mysterious name “Fferyllt”
is tracing its roots back to late autumn of 2003, when
keyboarder Diarmaid began to think about creation of
a musical project, which's main concept would be his
native religion – Western-European Paganism. The path
of it lies trough distant North, trough the traditions
of Norsemen and Celts. Asatru and Druidism became main
burdens in Diarmaid's songs.
As North is fierce and unbounded, as the way to accomplishment
one's idea is long and involved. In the beginning Fferyllt
becomes a studio project. The member of the cast was
a musician, who's destiny only for a short while concerned
with the project. His name was O'Cella, and he took
part in recording of early demos.
Two months later calm life of the project has started
moving with reinforcement. The cast was increased with
Alexei Godlevsky. It has marked the beginning of rehearsals
and hard work, breathing new life and hope into Fferyllt's
existence as a band.
Spring of 2007 brought new breath into band – the ranks
were filled with two musicians. They were bassist Alexander
Lebedev, and singer Astrid (Yanina Zelenskaya). Time
was drawing near to the sunny season, which made preconditions
for new tendencies, ideas and songs in the band.
6-th may 2007 is considered as Fferyllt's day of foundation
as a full band. The band, which would be able to bring
its works to the listeners not only with the aid of
records, but also trough live performances.
After a while Fferyllt became richer in new ideas, and
music obtains new shades with appearance of two new
members of the cast. They were growl-singer Ragnar (Rustam
Borzov), and guitarist Andrew Awdick. The band continues
rehearsals and working on the debut album.
Friendly moral support and special spiritual atmosphere
played a big role in accomplishment of recording Fferyllt's
first album, which's name is “Dance of Druids”. The
spirit of the album are West-European folk instruments,
such as bagpipe, whistle and bodhran. In the lyrics
is presented the spirit of the nature, as well as descriptions
of Celtic and Scandinavian Pagan fests.
The pattern woven
by the Norns was fortunate, and the Fferyllt’s spirit
was lit up with a new hope – of releasing the album
in a short time. But after signing a contract with the
label "Stygian Crypt Productions" (August, 2008), the
band has befallen new changes in the staff. Bassist
Alexander Lebedev, singer Rustam Borzov, and guitarist
Alaxei Godlewsky had to quit Fferyllt. As the forefathers
were saying, the sword is being steeled in this way…
Following this, the band grows stronger with joining
of new members – drummer Evgeniy Martynov, guitarist
Georgiy Tsedov, and bassist Sergey Gritsai. After new
members’ joining, the band begins to prepare for the
concert activity.
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