Rakoth

September 1996 - The Foundation Of The First Line-Up. The Band Is Formed By Leshy Drums Ilya Guitars And F. Vox . The First Band's Name - BEDEVIL. Two Weeks Later Rustam Joins As Vocalist And Keyboardist. Bassist Miguel "The Blind" Comes With Him. Rustam Offers To Change Band's Name To RAKOTH RAKOT Was The Initial Spelling . In Nick Perumov's "Chronicle Of Hjorvard" Rakoth Is The Half-God So-Called "True Mage" Who Had The Title Master Of Darkness For Using Darkness For His Magic. He Rose Against The Young Gods Accusing Them Of Being Liars Stealing Mortals' Freedom. After His Second Try He Was Defeated Disincarnated And Bound To The World Called "The Bottom Of Worlds". With Help Of His Friend Hedin "Aware Of Darkness" He Returned And Overthrew The Young Gods Thus Becoming The New God Along With Hedin. December 1996 - The Band Is Formed Completely With Coming Of Black As Vocalist With "clean" Voice And Changing Bassist To Den. All Music Is Written By Rustam And Ilya Lyrics - By Rustam. Now The Band Has Its Own Face - Black's Clean Voice And Rustam's Keys. The First Song Created Is "Return Of The Nameless" First Edition . The Song Becomes Famous In Obninsk Long Before The First Gig. February 1997 - The First Concert Together With Dissenter - Techno-Death Band. The Concert Represents The Fest Titled "Rock Against Chemical Dependence". Needless To Say That Everyone Especially Some Members Of The Band Is Deadly Drunk. Nevertheless The Gig Is Extremely Successful. Amazingly Public Seems To Know RAKOTH Well Although No Tapes Are Distributed Yet And No Gigs Were Given Before. RAKOTH Plays Own Early Songs "Return Of The Nameless" First Variant "Unholy Temple" "One Step Beyond" Which Is Unrecognizably Transformed Into The Song "Beyond" Later "Dying Realm" And STORM's "Nagellstev". March 1997 - Tense Relationship Inside The Band. Rustam Claims To Leave The Band. Simultaneously Leshy And F. Say They Wanted To Leave Long Ago. Band Collapses. F. Leshy And Ilya Form The Band They Call GORBUG And Play Black Metal. May 1997 - Rustam Decides To Form New Band And Offers Black And Den To Join. They Plan To Play Doom With Some Other Styles Elements. Coincidentally At The Same Time The Band Dissenter Falls Apart And Its Guitarist/vocalist Dy Wishes To Play Deeper Music Than Death Metal. Den Invites Him To The New Band Which Has No Name Yet. New Line-Up Rustam - Keys & Voice Black - Voice Den - Bass Dy - Guitars. Leshy Offers His Help With Drums. The Band Rehearses At Rustam's Garage. June 1997 - Band Is In Search For The Name. Many Variants Proposed MEPHISTO UNBORN TEARS DOWNFALL IN THIS ROOM But None Satisfies. Finally Dy Proposes To Use The Name RAKOTH Again. Taking Into Account That Old Band RAKOTH Doesn't Exist Anymore And That The Name Was Offered By Rustam In The Beginning The Name RAKOTH Is Accepted. July 1997 - Leshy Officially Joins RAKOTH. The First Demo "Tales Of The Worlds Unreal" Is Recorded Right In The Garage. August 1997 - Tape Is Given To A. Arzamascev The Head Of Arzamascev's Music Center Later - Signal Studios . He Decides To Allow The Band To Record Free At His Studio. Demo Tape "Dark Ages Chronicle" Is Recorded Live With No Post-Mixing During Only 4 Hours. The Quality Of Recording Is That High That Noone Believes In That Short Recording Time And In Live Recording. Later In Review Given In DEATHRIDER 'zine We Can See "This Tape Was Recorded According To Legend During Only 4 ! Hours…". Rustam Starts Sending The Tapes Everywhere. September 1997 - Solo-Concert. As In The First Case The Public Knows The Band Well So The Gig Goes Perfectly. October 1997 - Leshy Suddenly Leaves RAKOTH. He Plays With Fascist Now Tuur And Ilya Now Vuulko In Their Band They Renamed Into Темнозорь. They Play So-Called "true" Pagan Metal. February 1998 - First Review On "Dark Ages Chronicle" Appears In VAE SOLIS Web-Zine. Positive One. All Later Reviews Are Positive As Well. March 1998 - Latvian Distro-Label Starts Distributing "Dark Ages Chronicle". April 1998 - Rustam Starts His Solo-Project Umbral Presence In Order To Create Something More Aggressive And Personal Than RAKOTH. June 1998 - Another Latvian Distro Beverina Productions Starts Distribution Of "Dark Ages Chronicle". August 1998 - The Band Enters Signal Studios To Record Their New Creation. By The Strange Coincidence They Begin The Recording At The Same Day Which Was Chosen A Year Ago For Recording Of "Dark Ages Chronicle". It Is 18th Of August. After The Week Of Work They Finally Can Celebrate The Birth Of Their First Full-Length 57 Minutes Album Titled "Superstatic Equilibrium". During The Same Session Rustam Records The Demo For Umbral Presence "…et Germinet Chaos". Both Tapes Are Immediately Sent To Elven Witchcraft. November 1998 - "Superstatic Equilibrium" And "…et Germinet Chaos" Are Now Officially Distributed By Elven Witchcraft. April 1999 - "code666" Is Interested In Getting RAKOTH's Tape. Rustam Sends "Superstatic Equilibrium" To Italy. June 1999 - "code666" Offers A Deal To RAKOTH. August 1999 - The Contract For Recording Of One Album Is Signed. November 1999 - The New Album “Planeshift” Is Out On Code666 Production ITALY March 2000 - Planeshift Took 100/100 On Aardschok Magazine Holland & 6/6 On Scream Magazine Norway And Tons Of Other Highly Positive Reviews. April 2000 - A New Deal Is Signed With Code666 For Two More Albums. May-June 2000 - Composing And Arranging New Songs For The Next Album… ... A Lot Of Interesting Things Between 2000 — 2008 Undescribed To Fit The Format Yet... September The 4th 2008
After 2 5 Years Of Cooperation Zafod B. The Utkinson Announces The Great Start Of His New Project S Which Makes Him Leave Rakoth Immediately. The Band Is Still Working On Its New Album Nevertheless. read less