Ukrainian rock
Encyclopedia
Ukrainian rock is rock music
from Ukraine
. The most popular bands include Komu Vnyz
, Plach Yeremiyi, Taras Petrynenko
, Vika, Tea Fan Club (TFC), Viy
, Vopli Vidoplyasova and others. Opalnyi Prynz was, perhaps, the most influential rock band in the late 1980s and early 1990s, followed by its predecessor Loony Pelen. Okean Elzy
, featuring Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
has long been among the most popular bands of Ukrainian pop-rock, and has had some success abroad. The band Mandry
is known for fusing traditional Ukrainian music with rock, blues
, reggae
and chanson
s. The pop-singer Ruslana
also uses some elements of rock in her work.
The Chervona Ruta
was a very important Ukrainian rock music festival
.
"Пісенний Вернісаж" - New Ukrainian Wave 92 -
Festival of the best Ukrainian folk/pop/rock bands (Producing- Rostyslav - Show, 1992)
Famous Ukrainian heavy metal
bands include Fleshgore
, Firelake
, Nokturnal Mortum
, Astrofaes
, Drudkh
, and Hate Forest
.
Metal Heads Mission
is the biggest metal festival in Ukraine and ex-USSR countries.
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
from Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
. The most popular bands include Komu Vnyz
Komu Vnyz
Komu Vnyz is a Ukrainian rock band founded in 1988. Komu Vnyz's music is a blend of gothic and industrial styles, combined with the lyrics of ancient Ukrainian legends...
, Plach Yeremiyi, Taras Petrynenko
Taras Petrynenko
-Background:His musical career started in 1969 after his performance on the dance floor with the group Eney, which consisted of students from the music school named after Mykola Lysenko...
, Vika, Tea Fan Club (TFC), Viy
Viy (band)
Viy is a Ukrainian ethnic-rock band originating from the capital Kiev in 1991.-Discography:* Chorna Rillya * Khata Skrayu Sela * Chorna Rillya Collector's Edition * Rock Legends of Ukraine - Viy...
, Vopli Vidoplyasova and others. Opalnyi Prynz was, perhaps, the most influential rock band in the late 1980s and early 1990s, followed by its predecessor Loony Pelen. Okean Elzy
Okean Elzy
Okean Elzy is one of the most successful and popular Ukrainian rock bands. It was formed in 1994 in Lviv, Ukraine. The band's vocalist and frontman is Svyatoslav Vakarchuk. Okean Elzy is the best-loved Ukrainian rock band not only in Ukraine but also in most CIS countries...
, featuring Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
Svyatoslav Yvanovych Vakarchuk is the lead vocalist of Okean Elzy, the most successful post-Soviet rock band in Ukraine. He is the son of Ivan Vakarchuk, a professor of physics at Lviv University and the former Minister of Education and Science in Ukraine....
has long been among the most popular bands of Ukrainian pop-rock, and has had some success abroad. The band Mandry
Mandry
Mandry is a popular Ukrainian folk-rock, blues, ska band; the band formed in 1997 in Kiev, Ukraine. The band's vocalist and most recognizable member is Serhiy "Foma" Fomenko.- Activity :...
is known for fusing traditional Ukrainian music with rock, blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
, reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
and chanson
Chanson
A chanson is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" or "chanteuse" ; a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier.-Chanson de geste:The...
s. The pop-singer Ruslana
Ruslana
Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko is a World Music Award winning and MTV Europe Music Award nominated artist, and the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004....
also uses some elements of rock in her work.
The Chervona Ruta
Chervona Ruta
Chervona Ruta is a flower, but also part of the Ukrainian culture related to the holiday of Ivan Kupala Day. According to the legend, still respected in Carpathian mountains and Bukovina, rue is a yellow flower which turns red only for a couple of minutes on the night of Ivan Kupala...
was a very important Ukrainian rock music festival
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...
.
"Пісенний Вернісаж" - New Ukrainian Wave 92 -
Festival of the best Ukrainian folk/pop/rock bands (Producing- Rostyslav - Show, 1992)
Famous Ukrainian heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
bands include Fleshgore
Fleshgore
Fleshgore is a death metal/groove metal band formed in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Since their formation in late 2000, the band has gone through a number of line-up changes. Guitarist Igor Lystopad is the only original member...
, Firelake
Firelake
Firelake is a Ukrainian melodic death metal band from Kiev. The band was formed in 1997 by Oleg Yavorsky , Alexey Akulshyn and Andrey Salnikov...
, Nokturnal Mortum
Nokturnal Mortum
Nokturnal Mortum is a Ukrainian black metal band from Kharkiv.-History:Nokturnal Mortum started as death metal band Suppuration in 1991, then turned to black metal and changed name to Crystalline Darkness but "had to change the name back in 1993/94 to Nocturnal Mortum because there already existed...
, Astrofaes
Astrofaes
Astrofaes, a Ukrainian black metal band from the town of Kharkiv, first came in to being in 1996 as a project between Thurios and Khorus...
, Drudkh
Drudkh
Drudkh is a Ukrainian metal band that mixes elements of folk metal and black metal. They were formed by Roman Saenko, prolific metal musician, the leading member of Hate Forest, Dark Ages and Blood of Kingu; Thurios, the leading member of Astrofaes and, with Saenko, a former member of Hate Forest;...
, and Hate Forest
Hate Forest
Hate Forest was a Ukrainian black metal band formed by Roman Saenko, the leading member of Drudkh, Dark Ages, and Blood of Kingu. Thurios joined the band in 1998 after the recording of "Scythia". The music is mostly very fast, but occasionally slow, with low, distorted vocals and dark ambient...
.
Metal Heads Mission
Metal Heads Mission
Metal Heads Mission is an annual music Metal Fest near Yevpatoria, Crimea, in Ukraine. In 2009 the fest reached its tenth year. It is organized by Iofik Sergey bassist of Ukrainian brutal death metal band Mental Demise. It usually takes place in the beginning of August, in Crimea peninsula and...
is the biggest metal festival in Ukraine and ex-USSR countries.
List of notable Ukrainian rock bands
- AstrofaesAstrofaesAstrofaes, a Ukrainian black metal band from the town of Kharkiv, first came in to being in 1996 as a project between Thurios and Khorus...
- AtmasferaAtmasferaAtmAsefra is the bright project of the Ukrainian music, favourite and expected guest at a lot of European festivals.The title of the band contains two words: “atma” which means “personality” and “sfera” is something that surrounds it...
- Blood of KinguBlood of KinguBlood of Kingu is a black metal band from Ukraine formed in 2005 by the main member of Drudkh, Dark Ages and Hate Forest.Lyrically, Blood of Kingu deals with Sumerian/Ancient Egyptian and Indo-European mythology and history. The vocals include death growls as well as Tibetan chants.On 7 December...
- DrudkhDrudkhDrudkh is a Ukrainian metal band that mixes elements of folk metal and black metal. They were formed by Roman Saenko, prolific metal musician, the leading member of Hate Forest, Dark Ages and Blood of Kingu; Thurios, the leading member of Astrofaes and, with Saenko, a former member of Hate Forest;...
- Druha Rika
- Dymna Sumish
- EneyEneyEney was the Ukrainian rock band that performed its own repertoire. It was named after the famous character, Aeneas, from one of the literal work of Ivan Kotlyarevsky.-History:...
- EphyraEphyraEphyra may refer to:* The city of Kichyro, later known as Ephyra.* Ephyra, one of the Oceanids* Ephyra, one of the Nereids* Ephyra, a stage of the life cycle of jellyfish* Efyra, a village and an archeological site in Elis, Greece...
- Esthetic EducationEsthetic educationEsthetic Education is a rock band based in Kiev, Ukraine. Its present members are Louis Franck , Dmytro Shurov , Yuriy Khustochka , Illya Halushko , and Andriy Nadolsky...
- FirelakeFirelakeFirelake is a Ukrainian melodic death metal band from Kiev. The band was formed in 1997 by Oleg Yavorsky , Alexey Akulshyn and Andrey Salnikov...
- FlitFlit (band)Flit is a Ukrainian punk rock band that was formed in 2001 in Ivano-Frankivsk.Members are:*Volodymyr Novikov *Andriy Markiv *Ihor Ozarko *Mykhailo Kopievskyi - Studio albums :...
- FleshgoreFleshgoreFleshgore is a death metal/groove metal band formed in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Since their formation in late 2000, the band has gone through a number of line-up changes. Guitarist Igor Lystopad is the only original member...
- FlëurFlëurFlëur is a musical collective from the Ukrainian city of Odessa, being unique for the Ukrainian musical scene. The collective is based around the two original members and frontwomen Olga Pulatova and Olena Voinarovska who write the lyrics, perform vocals and previously wrote all the music...
- Hate ForestHate ForestHate Forest was a Ukrainian black metal band formed by Roman Saenko, the leading member of Drudkh, Dark Ages, and Blood of Kingu. Thurios joined the band in 1998 after the recording of "Scythia". The music is mostly very fast, but occasionally slow, with low, distorted vocals and dark ambient...
- HaydamakyHaydamaky (band)Haydamaky is a Ukrainian folk rock band formed in 1991.- History :The Haydamaky began their career in 1991, shortly after Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union. Then the band was known as Aktus, and played mostly local gigs in the underground Kiev music scene...
- Holy Blood
- Komu VnyzKomu VnyzKomu Vnyz is a Ukrainian rock band founded in 1988. Komu Vnyz's music is a blend of gothic and industrial styles, combined with the lyrics of ancient Ukrainian legends...
- KrykhitkaKrykhitka TsakhesKrykhitka Tsakhes was a Ukrainian rock band formed in 1999 in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The band was considered to perform rock and trip hop music styles...
(ex-Krykhitka Tsakhes) - Los ColoradosLos Colorados (music group)Los Colorados is a Ukrainian band formed in 2006 in Ternopil. The band play their own songs, but have also covered a few popular and folk songs. Los Colorados increased in prominence after their cover of Katy Perry's song "Hot n Cold" grew popular via online video websites...
- Mad Heads XLMad Heads XL- History :Band called Mad Heads was formed in Kiev, Ukraine by Vadym Krasnooky. In Ukraine they enjoyed the status of a rock legend for many years, with 4 studio albums, good press, frequent TV appearances and constant live touring...
(ex-Mad HeadsMad HeadsMad Heads was a Ukrainian psychobilly band from Kiev, Ukraine well-known at Western Europe psychobilly scene.- History :It was back in 1991 when Vadym Krasnooky started the first neo-rockabilly/psychobilly band of Ukraine. The style was completely unknown there, so the guys felt like aliens with...
) - MandryMandryMandry is a popular Ukrainian folk-rock, blues, ska band; the band formed in 1997 in Kiev, Ukraine. The band's vocalist and most recognizable member is Serhiy "Foma" Fomenko.- Activity :...
- Nokturnal MortumNokturnal MortumNokturnal Mortum is a Ukrainian black metal band from Kharkiv.-History:Nokturnal Mortum started as death metal band Suppuration in 1991, then turned to black metal and changed name to Crystalline Darkness but "had to change the name back in 1993/94 to Nocturnal Mortum because there already existed...
- Obiymy Doshchu
- Okean ElzyOkean ElzyOkean Elzy is one of the most successful and popular Ukrainian rock bands. It was formed in 1994 in Lviv, Ukraine. The band's vocalist and frontman is Svyatoslav Vakarchuk. Okean Elzy is the best-loved Ukrainian rock band not only in Ukraine but also in most CIS countries...
- PerkalabaPerkalabaPerkalaba ,a Ukrainian band from Ivano-Frankivsk playing music combining elements of hutsul-folk, Ska and Punkrock.Compared to artists like Goran Bregović or Zabranjeno pušenje....
- Pikkardiyska Tertsiya
- Plach Yeremiyi
- S.K.A.Y.S.K.A.Y.S.K.A.Y. is a Ukrainian Pop rock band. It was formed in 2001 in Ternopil, Ukraine.-History:After the band had been formed in 2001 it started to tour the country and performed at several festivals like Perlyny sezonu, Tavriyski ihry and Chervona ruta. They became more known for a broader audience...
- TIKTIK (band)TIK is a Ukrainian folk rock band with heavy influences of ska and shanson. It was formed in 2005 in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. The band's name is an abbreviation of the Ukrainian phrase "Тверезість і культура" which means "Sobriety and Culture".-History:...
- TNMKTNMKTNMK or Tanok na Maidani Kongo is the most successful Ukrainian hip-hop group . They are notable for clever, yet often tongue-in-cheek lyrics; mixing hip-hop with rock, funk and jazz music and playing real instruments on their albums and live shows, rather than using mere samples and drum...
- TartakTartakTartak is a popular hip-hop/rapcore/alternative crossover band from Ukraine. They mix styles of guitar rock, hip-hop and dance music to produce an energetic compositions and lyrics.-History:...
- The UkesThe UkesStepan Pasicznyk is a British born musician, song writer, and translator of Ukrainian and Irish descent born in Luton, Bedfordshire. He was the accordionist and co-songwriter of the original early 1990s line up of British band The Ukrainians....
- The UkrainiansThe UkrainiansThe Ukrainians are a British band, which plays traditional Ukrainian music, heavily influenced by western post-punk.-Career:The Ukrainians were formed in 1990 by Wedding Present guitarist Peter Solowka, with singer/violinist Len Liggins and mandolin player Roman Remeynes, after all three had played...
- ViyViy (band)Viy is a Ukrainian ethnic-rock band originating from the capital Kiev in 1991.-Discography:* Chorna Rillya * Khata Skrayu Sela * Chorna Rillya Collector's Edition * Rock Legends of Ukraine - Viy...
- Vopli VidopliasovaVopli VidopliassovaVopli Vidopliassova or VV is a popular Ukrainian rock band. It was formed in 1986 in Kiev, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union . Their influences include folk, patriotic songs, punk, hard rock, heavy metal and, most recently, electronic music.Their song Den Narodzhennya is featured in both...