Microcosmos (Drudkh album)

Microcosmos
Studio album by Drudkh
Released June 22, 2009
Recorded Summer 2007 at ViTeR Music in Kharkiv, Ukraine[1]
Genre Black metal
Length 41:43
Label Season of Mist
Drudkh chronology

Estrangement
(2007)		 Microcosmos
(2009)		 Slavonic Chronicles
(2010)

Microcosmos is the seventh album by Ukrainian black metal band Drudkh, released on June 22 (July 14 in US), 2009. It has released as a CD digipack (unlimited) and as a box set (limited to 500 copies) by Season of Mist, under the label Underground Activists.

In this album, the band continues using lyrics from Ukrainian poets, like Ivan Franko on "Distant Cries of Cranes", Oleh Olzhych on "Decadence", or Bohdan Rubchak on "Ars Poetica".[2]

The last track ("Widow's Grief") is taken from the soundtrack of the Ukrainian movie Atentat (1995), like the intro on the previous album Estrangement ("Solitary Endless Path").[3] The film is about the life and assassination of Stepan Bandera, leader of Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a Ukrainian partisan nationalist group during and after World War II.

The album was praised by critics: it was ranked 11 in Terrorizer Top 40 Albums of 2009[4] and 3 in Top 30 Metal Albums of 2009 by Haunting the Chapel, the Stereogum heavy music section.[5]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Минулі дні (Days that Passed)"   1:06
2. "Далекий крик журавлів (Distant Cries of Cranes)"   9:37
3. "Декаданс (Decadence)"   10:32
4. "Ars Poetica"   9:47
5. "Все, що не сказано раніше (Everything Unsaid Before)"   9:34
6. "Вдовина скорбота (Widow's Grief)"   1:07
Total length:
 41:43

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Drudkh - Microcosmos". discogs.com. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Drudkh - Microcosmos (2009)". metalarea.org. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Drudkh - Microcosmos (2009)". metalarea.org. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Terrorizer Albums of the Year 2009". rocklist.net. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
  5. ↑ "The 30 Best Metal Albums of 2009". stereogum.com. Retrieved October 10, 2012.

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