TVANGESTE
was founded in August 1996, when Miron advertised for a group
creation. After a long search, in May 1998 the structure was finally
generated. From that time, Tvangeste consisted of:
Miron - guitar, vocals.
Founder of the band. Talented slogger with the great ability to
create striking melodies. Always tries to find a new fresh sound for
Tvangeste's music...
Nicholay Kazmin (ex-OBSESSION) - guitar.
One of the most serious problems in the Tvangeste development was
the problem to find a guitar player in Kaliningrad capable of
combining the storm speed and melodic minds. With the arrival of
Nicholas rhythmic part of Tvangeste, the music changed drastically.
Victoria - keyboards. In the autumn of 1998 in Tvangeste comes
keyboarder Victoria, playing in Dis Pater (doom) and Romowe Rikoito
(gothic). She is a very professional musician with extraordinary
feeling heavy, gloomy music. She has brought a lot of new ideas and
atmosphere in Tvangeste's music.
Vanoe - bass. After a long time with having no bassist has came
young, energetic and talented guitar player Vanoe (ex-DIVERSION
(death)...
In the beginning of 1998 at two studios (DG Sound and Brudenia Rec.)
was recorded our single "Blood Dreams" and demo
"Thinking...". The first experience in recording has
received good responses and reviews in the Russia and CIS countries.
After that time, Tvangeste have decided, that frequent concerts are
not necessary.
Band began our promotion in the spring of 1998, our manager has met
the director of "Apostrophe" (the official Century Media
representative in Russia). He made an offer to Tvangeste - producing
and releasing the first CD with abroad distribution.
Tvangeste also received an invitation to take part in a September
Cradle of Filth concert in Moscow but an economy crisis in Russia
crushed that idea. Then "Apostrophe" refused production on
uncertain terms... It was a really black line in Tvangeste's history
but from that time band's development grows without any crisis and
problems.
In January of 2000 Tvangeste have finished our half-year work under
our debut album "Damnation of Regiomontum". This full size
50 min album contains 5 tracks. Classical instruments, nice female
voice and aggressive speed guitars. It's hard to describe music by
words. The style of the Tvangeste's music is a kind of melodic
symphonic black metal but made by original way. This album was sold
more than 5000 copies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Many Russian
magazines, radios and labels have recognized Tvangeste as the best
black metal band of 2000 year.
In 2001 Tvangeste have signed a contract with norwegian label
VALGALDER RECORDS for two albums. Valgalder re'released
"Damnation of Regiomontum" for World wide. For Tvangeste
it was a great step into the future. There were tons of great
reviews. Album was played on many radio stations from all over the
world. Valgalder did a great work for Tvangeste's promotion. Band
was interviewed by the greatest magazines of Europe, South and North
Americas and Asia. Licensing on "Damnation of Regiomontum"
was bought by Mexican and **** labels. In june 2001 well known
British magazine Live For Metal gave a "Band of the Month"
award to Tvangeste.
In the March of 2001 Naturelle (Miron's wife) joined the band as a
keyboardist. Later her excellent abilities brought a great part of
new, fresh melodies...
In the beginning of 2001 Miron and Naturelle began the new album
creation. It was a horrible long work...months of laborious work.
They decided to create not just a "Damnation of Regiomontum"
sequel but something more professional, much powerful, really
interesting, fresh and new. Baltic Symphony Orchestra was hired for
this recording. It was amazing work with the professional people.
Naturelle and Katya (first violin in the orchestra) created all
scores for each instrument. 300 sheets of notes! Also Prussian
Chamber Choir took a part in the recording session. With their
greatest help Tvangeste got a lot of dramatic vocal moments in the
songs. It was the first experience for Tvangetse to work with
professional musicians and this collaboration helped Tvangeste to
find their unique style of playing metal music.
All lyrics for this album are the one tale based on ancient Prussian
legend continuing from song to song. The album was recorded at two
studios: well-known Polish metal studio SELANI (Vader, Behemoth, Lux
Occulta, Christ Agony, Decapitated, Dies Irae) and TV4 Studios from
Koenigsberg. Valgalder Records hired a virtuoso session drummer from
Polish band DOMINIUM Cezar Mielko.
There were great complications (sometimes even incomprehensible
things) during recording sessions, but at last in February 2002 the
new album entitled "FireStorm" was finished. Because of
those troubles the album release was delayed ONE YEAR! In November
of 2002 Valgalder Records sold all rights of this album to a big
Japanese metal label WORLD CHAOS PRODUCTION.
In December 2002 Tvangeste have signed a contract with World Chaos
for "FireStorm" release. As it was agreed album should be
released up to May of 2003....
You
can visit Tvangeste's site here:
http://tvangeste.com
