Mal Etre are a Swiss project by Nocturnalpriest, who’s also active with blackened outfits Malvoisie, Baalshamin, Parämnesia and Polish horde Funebrum. After a handful of demos, Mal Etre released a first full length in 2010, Torment, via the great Kunsthauch-label. It was one of the most surprising albums that very same year, I think.
Black Autumn hail from North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and were formed by M. Krall in 1995. The first years the project did not release anything official, yet as from this century, Black Autumn turned out to be a rather productive entity. There were a couple of demos in between 2003 and 2006, as well as a split (with Italy’s Abyss), and in 2007 this solo-outfit released the debut full length, Ecstasy, Nightmare, Doom (ISO666). Three more full lengths followed, i.e.
The Russian one-man army Vir’ (something like ВирЬ) was formed at the end of last century by multi-instrumentalist / vocalist Sergey Milushkin in the city of St. Petersburg. Throughout the years, he worked with session drummers to record the material he wrote. Vir’ released a first album in 2006, called Nizhny Les, and a second one in 2008, which was entitled Horna.
