Evoking Winds

The band rooted from Minsk, Belarus exists as an online studio project with members living all over the world since 2005.
Music by Evoking Winds includes both melodic black metal as well as folk, cinematic orchestral music, dungeon synth and atmospheric black metal. Folk instruments often take the leading role, the songs contain low amount of repetition and variable song structures. Compared with pure folk metal genre attributes, it's a darker, black metallic form, which dispenses with jigs and reels and is more dedicated to slower, more epic-styled songwriting. In contrast with most of atmospheric black metal bands, singing constantly shifts between black metal and death metal vocal techniques.
As stated by the band founder Artyom Prishchepov, Evoking Winds is a completely non-commercial project and all Evoking Winds music is licensed for free distribution. For many years the music by Evoking Winds was in underground state of small local cd releases until 2021, when the band decided to re-issue the music digitally.
The current discography contains 6 titles:
- Bald Mountain (Digital Release, 2023)
- The Heroes (CD Release, 2019; Digital Re-issue, 2022)
- Conjunction of Spheres (CD Release, 2015; Digital Re-issue, 2021)
- Silent Dawn (CD Release, 2013; Digital Re-issue, 2021)
- Towards Homestead (CD Release, 2008; Digital Re-issue, 2021)
- Pyl na našych ščakach (Demo) (CD Release, 2008)
Evoking Winds are:
Alexandr Cherepanov - Vocals, Guitars, Composing, Sound Engineering
Alia Fay - Vocals, Flute
Artyom Prishchepov - Composing, Lyrics, Harmonica, Keys, Programming
Dzmitry Sarychau - Guitars
James Knoerl - Drums
Pavel Mikhalyov - Lead Guitars
Sergey Shulzhenko - Keys, Arrangement, Orchestration
Yaroslav Korotkin - Bass Guitar
Participating artists: Bob Darling (Narrator), Sebastian Bracht (Choir Vocals)
Artworks: Nele Diel