''Slavonic Chronicles'' is an
EP released by
Ukrainian black metal
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band
Drudkh
Drudkh is a Ukrainian black metal band. It currently consists of Roman Saenko (of Hate Forest and formerly of Dark Ages), Thurios (former member of Astrofaes and Hate Forest), Krechet, and Vlad. All four also were members of Blood of Kingu un ...
on September 20, 2010 (see
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), on the
French
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label
Season of Mist
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. It was released in two formats: as a
10" LP and as a
mini CD
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. The last one is available only as a part of a deluxe leather book edition of Drudkh's 2010 full-length album, ''
Handful of Stars'', strictly limited to 600 copies.
''Slavonic Chronicles'' consists of two cover versions of tracks by
Slavic
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black metal bands: "Tam gdzie gaśnie dzień..." (originally by the
Polish
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band
Sacrilegium
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, taken from a split with Polish band North, titled ''Jesienne Szepty'') and "Indiánská pÃseň hrůzy" (originally by
Czech
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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'' () is the fourth album by Ukrainian black metal band Drudkh, released in 2006. The name of the album comes from a line of the 1935 poem by Oleh Olzhych. The album's overall sound is more influenced by folk music and pagan me ...
'', as opposed to the almost
post-rock
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sound of ''Handful of Stars''.
The Sacrilegium cover was dedicated "to our Polish brothers fallen in September 1939", and because the group was unsuccessful in contacting Sacrilegium 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
References
Drudkh albums
2010 EPs
Season of Mist EPs
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