History
The story of the band with mysterious name “Fferyllt” is tracing its roots back to late autumn of 2003, when keyboarder Dmitry Eliseev 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. The first staff had gathered in spring of 2007. The members were: singer Yanina Zelenskaya, guitarist Alexey Godlewsky, bassist Alexander Lebedev, singer Rustam Borzov, guitarist Andrew Awdick, and keyboarder Dmitry Eliseev.
After several gigs in this staff, the band begins recording its debut album called “Dance of Druids”. The spirit of the album are West-European folk instruments, such as bagpipe, whistle and bodhran, as well as variations of celtic tunes. After signing a deal with the label Stygian Crypt Productions in August 2008, bassist Alexander Lebedev, singer Rustam Borzov, and guitarist Alaxei Godlewsky had to quit Fferyllt. Following this, new members had joined the band – drummer Evgeniy Martynov, guitarist Georgiy Tsedov, and bassist Sergey Gritsai.
On February 9-th, 2009, the band’s members’ most wishful event came true – Fferyllt’s debut album "Dance of Druids" was brought out on Stygian Crypt Prods. At the same time the band releases its first promo-video for the song “Yule”. Soon after the release, drummer E. Martynov and bassist S. Gritsay left the band. And soon after that the band says farewell to another members – guitarist A. Awdick and singer Y. Zelenskaya.
In December 2009 two members – Alexander Lebedev and Alexey Godlewsky had returned into the band’s staff, and a new member, who had taken a part in songwriting for the debut album, Alexander “O’Kella” Davtyan, joined the staff again. On December 31-th, the band grants to its listeners an internet-single called “Thurisaz”.
At the moment the band works at its second full-length studio album which has to be released in 2010.
