We just want to play music, it’s the Punk Rock style. -Maxim Mikhaylov- After months of getting along with Russian underground bands back in Moscow, and listening to their reasons and difficulties not to travel to other continents, it was such a surprise when my friend Rodrigo Jardon told me that ‘some guys from Russia’ were…
When I first met Karen Ter-Mesropyan two years ago, I did’t imagine that he will lead me to the underground Metal scene in Moscow. It hasn’t been easy, but from the first guitar lessons he took (and then imparted), the bands he has been part of and the recording studio he runs, he has achieved…
Arda is a Muscovite band from Power Metal founded in 2002 by Pavel Okunev, former vocalist of the group ‘Epidemia’, with great success during the 90s. Since my first visit to Moscow, a place called my attention, the name of which, unlike all the businesses and the craft bazaar opposite, was in English. It was…