1914 are a fairly well-known band from Lviv, playing catchy #BlackenedDeathMetal. The songs deal with World War I in one way or another (the main guy is a war history nut). But their take on war seems nevertheless healthy: "You cannot idealize any war – because war is always about shitty politics and bullshit propaganda, death, mud, mass graves, suffering, broken lives, despair." #1914Band #DeathMetal https://x1914x.bandcamp.com/album/where-fear-and-weapons-meet

#UkrainianMetal 2. #Activated are an energetic #ThrashMetal outfit from #Kyiv. Here’s their recent, first, EP. Play it loud enough. #InThrashWeTrust https://activated.bandcamp.com/album/rise

#UkrainianMetal 3. #Afsked is a one-person instrumental project from #Zhytomyr. https://afsked.bandcamp.com/album/aura #instrumentalmusic #metal

#UkrainianMetal 4. #AmberPlatypus from #Odesa are the first band on the list to add some #stoner #sludge #drone #buzz and #hum into the mixture. https://amberplatypus.bandcamp.com/album/bad-trip-still-a-trip

#UkrainianMetal 5. #Anmasker from #Zaporizhzhia play some intense #retro #oldschool #thrash. https://anmasker.bandcamp.com/

#UkrainianMetal 6. #AtraMorsKvlt from #Lviv. A little known band, but it's a quite nice mixture of more #gritty #BlackMetal #mayhem and echoes of something #Krallice-ish that they offer. https://atramorskvlt.bandcamp.com/album/the-lance-of-adversity-and-death (I'll also mention here, but not separately post about, 2 other bands: #AnthroHalaust (#Kharkiv) and #Apatia (#Kropyvnytskyi).)

#UkrainianMetal 7. #AzathothCircle from #Kiyv. Not my cup of sencha, really, but nevertheless well executed stuff drawing inspiration, self-reportedly, from #Tool, #BlackMetal, #APerfectCircle, #Lovecraft, #Gojira, etc. https://azathothcircle.bandcamp.com/album/siaivo

#UkrainianMetal 8. #BalanceInterruption, also from #Kiyv, are a skillful bunch, playing restless #BlackMetal on the somewhat more #experimental side. Great stuff. Loved the use of 🎷 (e.g., the solo in 1:58-3:15, or thereabouts, in the first track). https://satanath.bandcamp.com/album/sat159-balance-interruption-door-218-2016

#Ukrainianmetal 9. #BestialInvasion from #Zhytomyr. I almost stopped listening to this faster than one could say #YngwieMalmsteen, but this is absolutely delightful: a fantastically intense and outlandish mixture of #Thrash, #Prog, #Helloween, #Jazz-ishness, decades of the past, #GuitarHeroism, deadly sins, speed, #Polish, and surprising twists and turns. To top it all, the singer occasionally sounds just like #BruceDickinson. And the #Bass player’s name is #MetalPriest. https://bestialinvasion.bandcamp.com/album/divine-comedy-inferno

#UkrainianMetal 10. #Bezmir from #Dnipro. Glorious, relentless #BlackMetal perhaps best enjoyed alone in the emptiness of #space. One of #Severoth's projects. He wrote on Facebook in February, right after the start of the war, that there'll be more music by Bezmir if he survives. More recently, he wrote that he's back to creating music after a 6-month break. So perhaps there will be more, at some point. But whether or not that's the case, I hope he'll survive. https://bezmir.bandcamp.com/album/void

#UkrainianMetal 11. #CryogenicImplosion are a #DeathMetal outfit from #Chernivtsi. Track number 2, "Delete Humanity," for instance, is quite nice (athough I don't find the relevant course of action recommendable). https://cryogenicimplosion.bandcamp.com/album/creation-of-the-new-world

#UkrainianMetal 12. #CryptofSilence from #IvanoFrankivsk start this 2nd album of theirs with a tasty #DoomMetal riff. And it’s all #doomandgloom from there. #DeathDoom #DoomDeath https://cryptofsilence.bandcamp.com/album/awareness-ephemera

#DriftofGenes hail from #Debaltseve, #Donetsk. There's something oddly peaceful or soothing about this kind of #BrutalDeathMetal. Maybe partly because the growling isn't so aggressive. Perhaps in part because the technicality of the music invokes images and associations of careful craftmanship despite all the speed and chaos. #DeathMetal https://driftofgenes.bandcamp.com/album/frozen-soil

#UkrainianMetal 14. #Drudkh from #Kharkiv are one of the best known Ukrainian #metal bands. A #warning: one of the other projects of the band leader has been a nazi band. Drudkh draw from #nationalist poetry, etc., but aren't considered similarly problematic. It's #BlackMetal that sounds like summer rain, #sunflowers, and burning wheat fields. I prefer the old more raw stuff over the newer material. https://drudkh.bandcamp.com/album/forgotten-legends

#UkrainianMetal 15. #EndlessBattle. No-nonsense #BlackMetal from #Dnipro. The drums (and the keyboard) are blasted here by #Severoth, whose neat solo project #Bezmir has been mentioned above. https://endless-battle-werewolf-promotion.bandcamp.com/album/roots-of-all-evil