Perunъ project was created in autumn 1996 in Rostov-on-Don by a man called Karjala King.
Until the year 2003 Perunъ was a one-man project.
That was the way the first album called «Fire» was recorded.
Rare folk instruments were used during the recording and also the Don Cossack Folk Chorus was invited to take part in the creation of the album.
Early Perun music was some kind of searching and reasoning on love for folklore, paganism, primal wildness, nature-and-human fusion...
In 2002 Karjala released on his own label «Kill Me Production» a limited edition single «The White Sea».
Deliberate long hermitage in Karelia woods and on the isles of White Sea, complete loneliness, searching for spiritual powers and a new way brought the idea of this record.
The original lyrics of «The White Sea» were influenced by the karelian-finnish poetry and Kalevala epos. Almost all parts Karjala recorded alone.
His helper in keyboards recording became architect of human sorrow Varthan.
In summer 2003 Perunъ regenerates into a full-fledged band or to be precise a trio. Bass-player Viktor and drummer Vladimir joined Perunъ.
This was the staff to let them play their first gig with local death-metal band Torture Garden on October 29th 2003.
The gig-thirst led Karjala to create in 2004 his own extreme music festival Armageddon metal fest, that took place in elite building of the city’s philharmonic.
At that time the band’s crew joined art director Peter Mayorov, whose photo-art works used to be exhibited in the halls of the buildings where Perunъ performed.
On April 12th, 2004 within the limit of the World Tour «Thunderball» famous U.D.O. visited Rostov-on-Don. Perunъ was the support band to open his gig. Not long before that event Viktor quit the band to be replaced by a bass-player called Jinn.
The guitar might of Perunъ doubled as Skalthor of Torture Garden joined the team Shortly after that Perunъ with a new drummer (Manaz) leaves for St. Petersburg to the Black Metal Fest. The gig took place in «Arctica» club on the 8th of may. Perunъ shared the stage with such bands as Serpens, Drama and Ashen Light.In a fortnight on may 21st the band presented itself in the Northern capital of Russia again.
This time it was Folk Metal Fest-2 with "Pagan Reign", "Nomans Land, Troll is bending a fur-tree, Butterfly Temple, Alkonost and others.
By the first away gigs the band’s music became thrashing and aggressive but it didn’t lose its peculiar view on folk. After those concerts Jinn quits the band and Baal Beck in past the front man of a local techno/death band «Detonator» takes his place. On august 7th 2004 Perunъ performed on Ukrainian open-air fest Metal Heads Mission.
The band opened the performance of the first day headliner – Dead Infection of Poland.
On october 22nd the second Armageddon metal fest took place in the Southern capital of Russia. There performed, in particular, Drama, Torture Garden and Bestial Deform.
A week later again in St. Petersburg «Arctica» club Perunъ shares the stage with a black-metal legend Impaled Nazarene...
The year 2005 remained in the band members’ family with consistent concerts with the legendary Behemoth in Rostov-on-Don (march 18th) and Moscow (march 19th), there was presented a new single «Wings like winds». Following those gigs Perunъ parted with art-director Peter Mayorov.
Also the regular Armageddon metal fest took place on the 3rd of june in Rostov-on-Don.
On the 2nd of November Perunъ shares the stage with a greek band Rotting Christ.
The material accumulated and sharped within 2 years was immortalized in a full-scale album «Inside of his shadow...I am!!!», released in spring 2006. The name and the conception of the album consist of searching the contrast between human feelings.
That is searching the verge between cave life, primitive state of human soul and it’s the most malicious enemy-developing intellect, the killer of human spirit! Having rested and mustered their strength Perunъ continues concert activity to perform in 2007 with such bands as Marduk (april 10th – Krasnodar), (april 11th Rostov-on-Don), Cradle of Filth (may 4th - Krasnodar) and Pain (may 19th - Krasnodar).
To be continued…
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