Tvangeste

Infobox musical artist
Name = Tvangeste


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Background = group_or_band
Origin = Russia
Genre = Symphonic black metal
Years_active = 1997 - present
Label = Valgalder Records
Worldchaos Productions
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Current_members = Michael "Miron" Chirva
Naturelle Chirva
Past_members = Nikolay Kazmin
Victoria Koulbachnaya
Vanoe Mayoroff
Max Naumoff
Cezar Mielko
Ekaterina
Olaa

Tvangeste is a symphonic black metal band from Russia (currently residing in Canada ).

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 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425454/ "Sinners and Saints"] . Tvangeste are known for adding full orchestras, opera singing, and long epic songs.

In 2005, Michael and Naturelle Chirva moved to Canada. They are currently working on Tvangeste's 3rd album, tentatively titled "Satori", to be released in 2008.

Discography

* "Blood Dreams" (1997) - Demo
* "Thinking..." (1998) - Demo
* "Damnation of Regiomontom" (2000) — Valgalder Records, Norway
* "Firestorm" (2003) — World Chaos Production, Japan

Awards

* "Best Black Metal Act from Russia in 2001" (annual national awards)
* "Band of the month" — Live For Metal magazine (UK)
* "Album of the month" — Scream magazine (Norway)
* "Best Russian Black Metal Band in 2001" — Musica.Mustdie.RU (Russia)

Line-up

Current members

*Michael 'Miron' Chirva (vocals, solo guitar, bass, drums)
*Naturelle Chirva (keyboards, orchestra arrangements)

Former members

*Nikolay Kazmin (guitar)
*Victoria Koulbachnaya (keyboards)
*Vanoe Mayoroff (guitar)
*Max Naumoff (basses)
*Cezar Mielko (drums) (Polish drummer from Dominium death metal band)
*Ekaterina (violins, orchestra arrangement)
*Olaa (female vocals)
*Baltic Symphony Orchestra
*Prussian Chamber Choir (vocals)

See also

* Black metal

External links

* [http://tvangeste.musica.mustdie.ru/english.html Official site (includes samples)]
*MySpace|tvangesteband|Tvangeste
* [http://www.regiomontum.com Record Label]