Аркона (Arkona) "Храм (Russia, Soundage Productions, SAPCD 370)"

Khram (Russian: «Храм») is the eighth full-length album by the Russian pagan metal band Arkona. It was released on 19 January 2018 through Napalm Records. The title means "Temple" in English.

Metal Hammer Germany's reviewer wrote that Arkona continued with the same intensity that was known from their previous albums. Influences of Black metal and "unusual melodies" were, however, noted in this release. According to the Sonic Seducer, the album shows the natural development of the band in terms of vocals, composition and instrumentation. Thematically, it constitutes a "tribute to the ... worship of flora and fauna". A review by Teamrock called Khram "wildly adventurous" and noted Arkona's sincere expression of their pagan ideals.

Tracklist:

1. Mantra (Intro) 03:51
2. Shtorm 05:12
3. Tseluya zhizn' 17:11  
4. Rebionok bez imeni 11:58   
5. Khram 09:50   
6. V pogonie za beloj ten'yu 07:49   
7. V ladonyah bogov 09:16   
8. Volchitsa (Веданъ Колодъ cover) 08:03   
9. Mantra (Outro) 00:55  

Time:  01:14:05

Titles are transliterated, version with original Russian titles released by Soundage Productions.

Tracklisting in Russian/translation:

Храм / Temple

1. Мантра (Интро) / Mantra (Intro)

2. Шторм / Storm

3. Целуя жизнь / Kissing the Life

4. Ребёнок без имени / A Child Without a Name

5. Храм / Temple

6. В погоне за белой тенью / Chasing the White Shadow

7. В ладонях богов / In the Hands of Gods

8. Волчица / She-wolf (Vedan Kolod cover)

9. Мантра (Оутро) / Mantra (Outro)

Official music video:

• V pogonie za beloj ten'yu

Аркона (Arkona) "Явь (CD+DVD, Deluxe Limited Edition Boxed Set, Germany, Napalm Records, NPR 526 DELUXE)"

Yav (Russian: Явь) is the seventh full-length album by the Russian pagan metal band Arkona. It was released on 25 April 2014 through Napalm Records.

The album references the material world Yav. Violin players Olli Vänskä of Turisas and Alexey of Sviatogor appear as guest musicians.

The Sonic Seducer magazine wrote that Yav was more mature and serious than Arkona's previous releases, leaving the clichés of the genre behind. The album was also lauded for a diversity of moods. The reviewer for the Austrian Stormbringer website observed that elements of black metal had now been combined with Arkona's typical style which provided for the album's sinister atmosphere.

Tracklist:

Disc 1 (CD)

1. Zarozhdenie 09:00   
2. Na strazhe novyh let 07:24
3. Serbia 05:39  
4. Zov pustyh dereven' 06:30   
5. Gorod snov 04:55
6. Ved'ma 06:19
7. Chado indigo 07:39
8. Yav' 13:44
9. V ob'jat'jah Kramoly 06:42  

Time:    01:07:52  

Disc 2 (DVD) - 10th Anniversary Show at P!iple Concert Hall

1. Az' 02:14   
2. Arkaim 05:44  
3. Ot serda k nebu 04:29  
4. Goi, Rode, goi! 05:08  
5. Leshiy 05:58  
6. Zakliatie 05:20  
7. Liki bessmertnykh bogov 05:31  
8. Nevidal 04:39  
9. Kolo Navi 04:23  
10. Slavsia Rus' 04:07  
11. Odna 05:57  
12. Sva 06:17  
13. Kupalets 03:01  
14. V tsepiakh drevney tainy 06:29  
15. Slovo 05:32  
16. Bol'no mne 05:43  
17. Pamiat 05:50  
18. Arkona 06:47  
19. Oh, pechal'-toska 05:38  
20. Stenka na stenku 02:44  
21. Yarilo 02:42  
22. Katitsia Kolo 07:05  

Time:  01:51:18

Specifics: 

• Limited edition of the album 

• A 65x105 cm flag 

• An Arkona's logo pendant 

"Явь" is Russian for "Reality". 

DVD also includes 3 music videos: "Liki bessmertnykh bogov", "Yarilo" and "Stenka na stenku". 

Recording information: 

Recorded at CDM Records Studio (Moscow Sound) between June - October 2013. 

Mixed and mastered in January 2014. 

"10th Anniversary Show" was recorded in P!iple Concert Hall in Moscow, Russia on February 11th, 2012.

Аркона (Arkona) "Лепта (Russia, Soundage Productions, SAPCD 050)"

Lepta (Russian: Лепта, English: Contribution) is the second full-length album by the Russian folk metal band Arkona. It was released on 30 December 2004 through Sound Age Production.

Track listing

1. "Sotkany Veka" (Woven Ages) – 4:14
2. "Lepta o Gneve" (Contribution to Wrath) – 5:26
3. "Chyornye Debri Voyny" (Black Thickets of War) – 4:29
4. "Zarnitsy Nashey Svobody" (Dawns of Our Freedom) – 5:40
5. "Vyidu Ya na Volyushku" (I'll Come to the Free Lands) – 3:37
6. "Voin Pravdy" (Warrior of Truth) – 05:46
7. "Marena" – 7:24
8. "Epilog" – 1:51
9. "Oy, To Ne Vecher..." (Oh, That Is Not Eve) – 3:12

Track # 3 is dedicated to the memory of those fallen in the terrorist attacks in Russia. Track # 9 is a Russian folk song.

Original track listing (in Russian)

1. "Сотканы века"
2. "Лепта о гневе"
3. "Черные дебри войны"
4. "Зарницы нашей свободы"
5. "Выйду я на волюшку"
6. "Воин правды"
7. "Марена"
8. "Эпилог"
9. "Ой, то не вечер..."

Recording information:

Recorded in autumn 2004 at CDM Records Studio.

Аркона (Arkona) "Слово (Slovo)"

Arkona (Russian: Аркона) is a Russian folk metal band.[1] Their lyrics are heavily influenced by Russian folklore and Slavic mythology, and their music incorporates several traditional Russian musical instruments. The name of the band "Arkona" refers to the last Pre-Christianized Slavic city-castle.

Their singer and songwriter, Maria "Masha Scream" Arkhipova, is one of relatively few successful female vocalists to sing in a death growl style. She is married to fellow band member Sergei "Lazar" Atrashkevich, with whom she has two children.

Slovo (Russian: Слово, A Word) is the sixth full-length album by the Russian pagan metal band Arkona. It was released on August 26, 2011 through Napalm Records. An academical choir and a chamber orchestra were used on the album.

A review by the webzine Jukebox Metal called the album "imaginative and lively" but criticised a lack in musical consistency and identity. Metal Hammer Germany was more positive and lauded the evolution in the band's musical quality, writing that the songs were more complex and sophisticated than those on the previous studio album Goi, Rode, Goi!

Titles are transliterated, version with original Russian titles released by Soundage Productions.

Tracklisting in Russian/translation:
Слово / Word
1. Азъ / The Beginning of all Beginnings
2. Аркаим / Arkaim
3. Больно мне / It's Painful for Me
4. Леший / Leshiy
5. Заклятие / Incantation
6. Предок / Ancestor
7. Никогда / Never
8. Там, за туманами / Behind the Mist
9. Потомок / The Descendant
10. Слово / Word
11. Одна / Alone
12. Во моём садочке... / In My Garden...
13. Стенка на стенку / Wall to the Wall
14. Зимушка / Winter


Igor "Hurry" is incorrectly credited as Ilya "Hurry" in the booklet (Napalm Records edition).

Recorded in CDM-Records Studio, Moscow, Russia, November 2010 – April 2011