Evoking Winds - Biography
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Biography
Evoking Winds is a Belarusian folk metal project founded in Minsk in 2005, with their first full album record released in 2008. Their music contains elements of atmospheric black metal, symphonic black metal, dungeon synth and neo-medieval music, largely focusing the listener on myths and folklore tales of Eastern Europe. The band members are spread across the globe, and currently live in Belarus, USA, Poland, China and Russia. Due to global distance Evoking Winds continues to be a studio project not concerned with live performances. Their latest album "The Heroes: Inspired by the music of Paul Romero with composer's permission" was released on September 10, 2019
The imagery and lyrics are grounded by Eastern European folklore. In band's early works the songs are arrangements of Belarusian archaic singings. Since 2015, the band has added fantasy folklore themes into their music inspired by The Witcher prose of Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski and performed a number of arrangements to fantasy video games (Heroes of Might and Magic II, Heroes of Might and Magic III, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt).
In a 2021 interview, the band leader Artyom Prishchepov described project's main idea as follows: "a happiness and grief for what you love and won’t likely face again. It’s like turning the last page of The Lord of the Rings reading it for the first time. It’s like watching the sunset together with Yennefer in Corvo Bianco understanding that your quest is over. It’s like remembering folklore stories from your granddad who told you about the ancient times. <...> It becomes home for all these feelings."
The project is influenced by both heavy metal bands as Moonsorrow, Catamenia, Summoning and video games original soundtrack authors Jeremy Soule, Paul Anthony Romero and Marcin Przybyłowicz.
The imagery and lyrics are grounded by Eastern European folklore. In band's early works the songs are arrangements of Belarusian archaic singings. Since 2015, the band has added fantasy folklore themes into their music inspired by The Witcher prose of Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski and performed a number of arrangements to fantasy video games (Heroes of Might and Magic II, Heroes of Might and Magic III, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt).
In a 2021 interview, the band leader Artyom Prishchepov described project's main idea as follows: "a happiness and grief for what you love and won’t likely face again. It’s like turning the last page of The Lord of the Rings reading it for the first time. It’s like watching the sunset together with Yennefer in Corvo Bianco understanding that your quest is over. It’s like remembering folklore stories from your granddad who told you about the ancient times. <...> It becomes home for all these feelings."
The project is influenced by both heavy metal bands as Moonsorrow, Catamenia, Summoning and video games original soundtrack authors Jeremy Soule, Paul Anthony Romero and Marcin Przybyłowicz.