Sivyj Yar Scarlet Sunset Over The Horrid Abyss

Sivyj Yar is a one-man post-black metal band formed almost twenty years ago in the outskirts of St. Petersburg

Sivyj Yar is a one-man post-black metal band formed almost twenty years ago in the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Since 2014, multi-instrumentalist and composer Vladimir Vishniakov has been working closely with Avantgarde Music to release his music endeavors, and A Scarlet Sunset Over The Horrid Abyss marks a new milestone in the artist's path.

Sivyj Yar has always been about the history and darkest times of the Russian people, and this new album makes no exception. In Vladimir's words, this work is about the innocent, the tortured, the murdered, the broken, and the forgotten. About those who were destined for unbearable suffering. About the sacrifice that they made. The wheel of terror turns faster. The darkest parts of history repeat themselves if they are erased from human memory or replaced with false images. Entire nations can easily be plunged into darkness for years. Icy fear fetters souls, mutilates them.

A Scarlet Sunset Over The Horrid Abyss features poetry by Andrei Bely, symbolist Russian poet from the early XX century, as well as archival photographs taken in the Kolyma camps -- one of the most terrible places in the new history of Russia, a remote, eastern area of the Russian country where dozens of gulags held Soviet POWs and political prisoners in extreme conditions until the '70s.

Sivyj Yar's post-black metal is intended for all those willing to go one step forward, not stopping at the music itself, but open to learning history. A Scarlet Sunset Over The Horrid Abyss will be available on CD and LP on April 11th, 2025.

Track Listing

Our Tears Have Turned To Ice A Scarlet Sunset Over The Horrid Abyss The Deadly Fog Drags Forth Everything Under The Snow Will Hush, Then Die In Their Slumber, The People Shall Forget Us