A six track demo tape with glossy black & white cover. This is my first demo tape from a band hailing from Russia and these quartets hook me listening to this tape starting from the first song “Years Of Prophecy” till the last “Holyday Of Fathers”. Dark melodic metal with black metal vocals with some well-placed keyboard. The songs are slow and you can say they play doom but Alkonost is not monotonous like most doom band. What I like most about them is guitar riffs which are melodic and depressive. Beside the growling vocal, there are also normal male vocals present. The keyboard plays an important role in adding atmospheric and medieval atmosphere and combining this with Alkonost brand of metal, they rules! Actually there are only 5 ‘real' tracks. The last track on this tape, “Rain Of Former Days” is an instrumental keyboard track with the sound of rain on the background and later when the keys stops the sound of rain, thunder prevail till the tape ends. For sure 5 songs is not enough!
Alkonost, D.V. Tunev, P.O. Box 87, 423821 Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia. (Source: Ketzer Rec.)

Alkonost is an black/folk metal from Russia. I can"t say about this band too much, because i"ve never heard about them before. Anyway, i like their mixture of black/doom and folk! Unfortunately their site is only in russian... But also check the Ketzer Records site for more reviews and info