We obviously didn’t wait for the troubles in Ukraine to take an interest in Kypck (pronounce “koursk”), a band whose name derives from a famous Russian nuclear submarine and who boasts three rather excellent doom/melancholic metal albums in their discography. But we have to admit the context was interesting to try and shed some light on this unusual band and understand what’s behind it. Kypck was founded in 2007 by Sentenced’s former guitarist and composer, Sami Lopakka, with one main idea: to sing in Russian and to develop a strong imagery based on Soviet symbols. The concept was later refined and improved, most notably after the hiring of singer Erkki Seppänen, who speaks fluent Russian, is fascinated by Russian history, and even worked at the embassy in Moscow for a time. Erkki is the one we called on his way to the concert venue in Tampere, Finland, where the band was playing that evening, to talk about Kypck, where he stands on the Ukrainian crisis, and the new balance of power between Russia and the West.
But we especially wanted to talk about the band’s third album, Imena Na Stene (Имена на стене with the proper Cyrillic spelling, meaning “The Names on the Wall”), released earlier this year and reviewed on this very website a few months ago. A striking record which received very little exposition, at least in France, but which deserves all your attention.
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