Tvangeste

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Tvangeste is a Symphonic Orchestral Black Metal band from Russia.

1 Biography
2 Discography
3 Awards
4 Line-up
- 4.1 Current members
- 4.2 Former members
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Biography

1995 — Michael Chirva starts seeking members through advertisiments in local newspaper
1997 — The band is officially born
2000 — Damnation of Regiomontum CD is released by Norwegian label Valgalder Records.
2002 — FireStorm is finished. Tvangeste sign a contract with Japanese label World Chaos Production.
2003 — FireStorm is released, it receives great reviews.

After releasing FireStorm Tvangeste attracted attention of Polish record label Metal Mind, who licensed the album for Poland and Germany. A big German promotion agencies were hired to do promotional work. One of the biggest Russian metal labels CD Maximum licensed FireStorm for Russian Federation, CIS countries and Baltic Countries. Canadian Neoblast Records released the FireStorm in April 2004. Brazilian Hellion Records licensed and released "FireStorm" in 2005. Tvangeste performed for the official soundtrack of Canadian horror movie "Sinners and Saints". Over 18 000 copies of "FireStorm" sold up to the end of 2006.

In 2005, Michael and Naturelle Chirva moved to Canada. They are currently working on Tvangeste's 3rd album, tentatively titled "Satori", to be released around summer 2007. Gaby Koss ex-Haggard will perform as a guest female singer, Andy LaRocque of King Diamond will mix new material at LOS ANGERED RECORDS / Goeteborg, Sweden.