Slavonic Chronicles is an EP

Extended play

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 released by Ukrainian

Ukraine

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 black metal

Black metal

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 band Drudkh

Drudkh

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 on September 20, 2010 (see 2010 in music

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) through French

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 label Season of Mist

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. It was released in two formats: as 10" LP and as mini CD

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. The last one is available only as a part of the deluxe leather book edition of Drudkh's 2010 full-length album Handful of Stars

Handful of Stars

-Personnel:*Thurios - vocals, guitars, keyboards*Roman - guitars*Krechet - bass*Vlad - drums, keyboards...

, strictly limited to 600 copies.

Slavonic Chronicles consists two cover versions of tracks by Slavic

Slavic peoples

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 black metal bands: "Tam Gdzie Gaśnie Dzień..." (originally by the Polish

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 band Sacrilegium, taken from a split with North entitled Jesienne Szepty) and "Indiánská Píseň Hrůzy" (originally by the Czech

Czech Republic

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 band Master's Hammer

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, taken from the album Šlágry

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). It was generally well received due to its stylistic similarity with classic Drudkh works like Blood in Our Wells

Blood in Our Wells

-References:...

, as opposed to the almost post-rock

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 sound of Handful of Stars.

The Sacreligium cover was dedicated "to our Polish brothers fallen in September 1939," and because the group was unsuccessful in contacting Sacreligium for the song's lyrics, the lyrics in the Drudkh version come from the Ukrainian poet Vadym Lesych (1909-1982).

Track listing

Personnel

• Roman (Roman Saenko, Роман Саєнко) - guitars
• Thurios (Roman Blahykh, Роман Благих) - vocals, guitars
• Krechet - bass
• Vlad - drums, keyboards