Band: Велес (Veles) Album: Заревая (Single) Genre: Sympho-Folk Metal Country: Russia Year: 2015 Order their previous album here: * http://eng.soundage.org/shop/goods.php?razdel=soundage&type=cd&ptype=162&id=3028 Websites: * http://veles-net.narod.ru/ * https://www.facebook.com/groups/Veles.folk.metal/ - Veles - god in the ancient pagan pantheon, patron of poetry and storytelling. In ancient text, "The Tale of Igor's Campaign", an ancient bard Boyan called "Veles's grandson", indicating the function of Veles as the god of wisdom, poetry and songs. Group Veles - a symbiosis of metal , folk and classical Russian music. The idea of ​​a band appeared in 2000 , by Denis Dianov and Ilya Shchukin , who at the time were together on violin . They were united by a craving for Russian folk songs , and "heavy" Western music . The main idea of ​​the project was to use a bow string instruments , but over time the emphasis has shifted towards a " guitar " for a more traditional rock sound , which was supplemented by a cello (the first party which played a prematurely deceased wonderful musician Yaroslav Kovalev ) . In the future , members of the band even more addicted folk songs , Russian opera and symphonic music. Musicians continued to search for ideas and concepts that result in 2008 was a demo album "The Sinful man", recorded as follows: Denis Dianov - vocals, Ilya Shchukin - guitar, Alexander Bragin - drums , Paul Fights - bass , Andrew Yatsynich - cello . Concert and studio musicians experience was acquired at various venues in Moscow and other cities and studios, not only as a member of Veles , but also in other musical groups . Current line-up is: Denis Dianov - vocals Ilya Shchukin - guitar Alexander Bragin - drums Aleksey Gerasimov - guitar Sergei Kokin - bass - Recording: Vocal, guitar, bass - CDM records studio (Sergey Lazar - Arkona) Drums, cello, keyboards - Bitrate Studio (Sergei KokinVasily Suryaninov) Mixing - Vasily Suryaninov Mastering - Finnvox studio (Mikka Jussila) ------------------------------------------------------------