Knjaz Varggoth
Knjaz Varggoth | |
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Also known as | Yevhen Hapon |
Born | July 30, 1974 |
Genres | Black metal, Pagan metal |
Instruments | Guitar |
Years active | 1991–present |
Labels |
Oriana Osmose Productions No Colours Records The End Records Nuclear Blast |
Associated acts |
Nokturnal Mortum Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra Aryan Terrorism |
Yevhen Hapon (Ukrainian: Євген Гапон), also spelt Eugeny Gapon and Ievgen Gapon, better known by his stage name Knjaz Varggoth, is one of the foremost figures in Eastern Europe black metal.[1] Though he has been involved with numerous music projects and bands (Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra, Lucifugum (as a guest musician in 1997), Вече), he is most well known for being the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Ukrainian black metal band Nokturnal Mortum.
Nokturnal Mortum gained their reputation performing symphonic black metal with elements of Ukrainian and Slavic folk music.
Another side project done by Varggoth is Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra, an ambient/black metal project formed in 1994. The most famous album of this project, The Key To The Gates Of The Apocalypse, is most likely known particularly due to its long runtime (one 72-minute track) and combination of dark ambient and fast black metal.
In autumn of 2014 in order to avoid rumors concerning his personal views and band ideology Varggoth published the statement declaring that he and Nokturnal Mortum was out of politics.[2]
Discography
Bands (In order of formation)
Suppuration
- 1992: Ecclesiastical Blasphemy
Crystaline Darkness
- 1993: Mi Agama Khaz Mifisto
Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra
- 1997: Midnight Fullmoon
- 1999: The Key to the Gates of the Apocalypse
Nokturnal Mortum
- 1995: Twilightfall
- 1996: Lunar Poetry
- 1997: Goat Horns
- 1998: To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire
- 1999: Nechrist
- 2005: Weltanschauung
- 2009: The Voice of Steel
Vetche
- 1998: Vetche
Piorun
- 2004: Stajemy Jak Ojce
Temnozor
Live Member
References
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=O8dvB1YXVVIC&pg=PT310
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/nokturnalmortumofficial/posts/10154629159940487