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

#UkrainianMetal 16. #EtherealRiffian is the name of the band (from #Kyiv), and 'Stonezilla' the name of the singer/guitar player. So, strong #StonerRock vibes here. #StonerMetal https://etherealriffian.bandcamp.com/album/legends

#UkrainianMetal 17. Couldn't find any relevant 'F' bands, and the 'G' ones I'll pass due to their far-right ideology or connections. So we move on to #Haspyd from #Kharkiv. Not my cup of gyokuro, exactly, but these plaintive melodies should be great for when you're astride a horse, raising your sword with the wind in your hair. Good energy. So, friends of #melodic #FolkMetal #PaganMetal: you might want to give this a whirl. https://haspyd.bandcamp.com/album/--3

#UkrainianMetal 18. #Helvetus from #IvanoFrankivsk play somehow soothing, folk-tinged, #BlackMetal with some great riffs (e.g., 0:48-1:07 in the first track). https://helvetus.bandcamp.com/album/-

#UkrainianMetal 19. #Ieschure is a one-woman #BlackMetal project from #Rivne. Very cool, very #Minimalism; #Music to wrap around oneself for a curious mixture of warmth and hopelessness. This is a recent #Split with #Moloch. The most recent full-length, #TheShadow, is intriguing, too. That's, like, #GhostMusic. Conjured in the #ShadowPlane with intricate #Witchcraft, I imagine. https://ieschure.bandcamp.com/album/ieschure-moloch-among-the-swamps-and-darkness

#UkrainianMetal 20. #Jinjer from #Donetsk might just be the most popular or best known Ukrainian metal band right now. While I don't really listen to this kind of #MetalCore #GrooveMetal #ProgressiveMetal, I'll say that they played an incredible gig at #Tuska2022. Massive energy. Moving, too. https://jinjer-jinjer.bandcamp.com/

#UkrainianMetal 21. #Karabiner from #Kyiv, heavily bombed by #Russia today. Proper reckless #Thrash #BrutalThrash #Crossover mayhem. Just three brief songs, and I'm feeling out of breath. Well done. Also, the #AlbumCover seems very fitting. https://karabiner.bandcamp.com/album/speedact

#UkrainianMetal 22. #KarmaRage from #Sievierodonetsk in #Luhansk, currently occupied by #Russia. #Thrash #Crossover Lyrical themes: #Politics, #Leftism, social themes. Or so it says on a website. I have no clue about the lyrics, of course. The band has *one* listener on #Spotify during the last month! I suppose that's me, then. https://karmarage.bandcamp.com/album/sociym

#UkrainianMetal 23. #KasuWeri are an excellent #Sludge #SludgeMetal #StonerMetal band from #Kyiv, where 70% of people still were without electricity this morning, after the #MissileStrikes by #Russia yesterday. #Riff https://kasuweri.bandcamp.com/album/from-soil-to-ashes

#UkrainianMetal 24. #LugburzSleed from #Chernihiv is a currently one-person #Experimental #Electronic #Ambient project, drawing from #BlackMetal. (There was a guitar player in the band, too, but he "plunged into" the #War and lost interest in #Music, or so I read in an interview from 2019.) Some of this sounds like, I don't know, the last, broken, lonely machines on the planet slowly grinding to a halt. Really cool sounds; intriguing stuff. https://lugburzsleed.bandcamp.com/album/m45

#UkrainianMetal 25. #MerzotnaPotvora from #Kyiv play ragged, snotty, crusty #BlackenedThrash #BlackMetal #Thrash This is their recent #Split with #Abigail (who dub themselves as #TheMostEvilBandInJapan). The recent full-length #HalasZPekla also contains some nice #BlackenedHumppa. https://merzotnapotvora.bandcamp.com/

#UkrainianMetal 26. #MetalDisease also hail from #Kyiv. Sympathetic no-nonsense #Thrash that almost forces one's (that is: my) fingers ➡️ 🤘 This one-person #Metal #ThrashMetal project would deserve more than the 7 monthly listeners on #Spotify! https://metaldisease.bandcamp.com/

#UkrainianMetal 27. #Moloch from #Rivne (”from the deep woods of Ukraine”) play foul, darker than black #BlackMetal (and, on many other albums, #DarkAmbient). https://molochukr.bandcamp.com/album/verw-stung

#UkrainianMetal 28. #MortalVision from #Dnipro play fierce, fast and furious #ThrashMetal. A new #Thrash quartet who seem to be gaining some attention, and for good reason. #DeathThrash https://mortalvision-ua.bandcamp.com/album/mind-manipulation

#UkrainianMetal 29. #MrtvaVod from the heavily bombed #Mykolaiv is a one-person #BlackMetal project. Good tunes, #Cold sounds. https://mrtvavod.bandcamp.com/album/divided-in-life

#UkrainianMetal 30. #Necrom from #Kharkiv sound very #Stockholm in the early #90s. The album name, too ('All Paths are Left Here'), is a nod to #Entombed. Catchy, great #OldSchoolDeathMetal. Worth noting, though: while this is *not* something that I'd associate with, say, Entombed (from a recent interview of a founding member, Ulf Cederlund: "Make more love! Fight fascism everywhere."), these folks have played in #NSBM bands (= National Socialist Black Metal). #DeathMetal https://osmoseproductions.bandcamp.com/album/all-paths-are-left-here

#UkrainianMetal 31. #Nonsun from #Lviv. This is *really nice* #DoomMetal. A seamless, stylish, mixture of #Sludge #StonerDoom and something #PostRock-ish. Like, #Sleep meets #Mogwai. With just a couple of hundred monthly listeners on #Spotify these folks are so underrated. Or better: highly rated, but too unknown. #PlayItLoudEnough & enjoy. https://nonsun.bandcamp.com/album/blood-spirit

#UkrainianMetal 32. #Noyde from #Kyiv characterize their music on this #Demo as #AtmosphericDoom. #DoomMetal https://loneravnrecords.bandcamp.com/album/noyde-surface-digital

#UkrainianMetal 33. #OctopusKraft. A *really* cool band. Strong #Isis #IsisTheBand vibes. A hint of #CultOfLuna. #PostMetal without needless pomposity. Powerful, intriguing #Music; #AwesomeSounds. Another real #Gem that pretty much no one knows about. #StronglyRecommended. #Sludge #PostMetal #DoomMetal #MetalMastodon https://octopuskraft.bandcamp.com/album/null