Articles by author Дмитро Акімов

У що б пограти? Поради від музикантів

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10 significant bands in the Ukrainian deathcore

Deathcore music and the whole genre in global understanding is quite an interesting phenomenon. If at first the creativity of this direction was positioned as a kind of protest against ordinary and boring metal, then over time the bands evolved and began to more and more often lap into the circles of amateurs of the classic heavyweight. Actually, they joined everything that they were fighting against. In fact, many groups didn’t live that long — if successful bands in rich America split up one after another simply because nobody needed such music, then what about Ukraine and the post-Soviet space?.

10 знакових гуртів в українському металкорі

Metalcore, у своєму сучасному та більш поширеному розумінні, був на піку популярності наприкінці 00-х і вистрілював як цікаві, так і не дуже гурти величезними пачками. Кожен третій підліток намагався косити під кумирів з умовних Asking Alexandria, Attack Attack! та інших мейнстрімових колективів.

10 significant bands in the Ukrainian metalcore

Metalcore, in the modern and more widespread sense of it, was at the peak of its popularity in the late 00s and shot both interesting and not so great bands in huge packs. Every third teenager tried to be like the idols of the conditional Asking Alexandria, Attack Attack! and other mainstream bands.

10 significant bands in the Ukrainian mathcore

This time in the series of "10 iconic bands" we will tell about mathcore genre — extremely niche and far from the most popular among other -core artists. The monsters like The Dillinger Escape Plan, Car Bomb, PsyOpus, Ion Dissonance, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza and others actively existed/exist abroad, but we hardly have a dozen bands playing in this genre in Ukraine, unfortunately.

Neformat Family. +\-

Продолжаем цикл материалов о важных группах отечественного андерграунда в рубрике Neformat Family. На этот раз поговорим о "коллективе, опередившем время" и "одном из самых важных на постсовке" — команде +\- (плюс\минус).

10 iconic bands in Ukrainian hardcore

In this part of our series of materials, we'll mention the 10 most iconic Ukrainian hardcore bands. For the formation of the list, several veterans of the scene were interviewed, mostly musicians, but also the promoters of the concerts.