to your attention β The Town/The Gorkhonsk band (I even like the second one better because it's pretty cute and is similar to The Bolshoi)
concept: everything that happens in patho are the plots of the band's albums: "Plague I" and "Plague II" (dedicated to the first and second outbreaks of gerbils), "Children of Gorkhonsk", "Steppe", "Utopia", "Bull Project" and "Mistresses"
music genre β postpunk and gothic metal with folk elements. the sound is a cross between the Unto Others, Inkubus Sukkubus, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Saviour Machine.
β’ Maria "Mistress" Kaina β vocals
β’ Daniil "Bachelor" Dankovsky β violin, backing vocals
β’ Aglaya "Inquisitor" Lilich β keyboards, organ
β’ Andrey Stamatin β electric guitar, yataga/changza
β’ Peter Stamatin β bass guitar
β’ Grigory "Bad Grief" Filin β drums, percussion
β’ Eva Yan β flute, tsuur
β’ Yulia Luricheva β sound engineering
β’ Mark Immortal β producing
sorry I don't know how to translate names of Mongolian instruments
fun facts about the band:
β’ the band was assembled by Mark, who has a concept, and the Stamatin brothers were the first members
β’ Andrey brought Bad Grief and Eva, Eva brought the Bachelor and Yulia, the Bachelor brought Aglaya, and Peter brought Maria. Aglaya and Maria were very surprised and together they composed a song about this entertaining meeting
β’ the most popular band members are Andrey and Eva, because they are very active and theatrical at live performances
β’ Yulia often appears on the group's social media photos because she and Eva are dating
β’ Bad Grief mostly plays in another band, but he hangs out here purely out of old friendship with Andrey
β’ Eva is responsible for the stage images/costumes/make-ups, Peter is responsible for the stage design. He also (sometimes with Andrey) paints album covers
β’ Dankovsky always has fucking perfect symmetrical eyeliner
β’ the authors of the lyrics of most of the songs are Peter and Dankovsky
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