Aura - Symphonic Gothic/Power/Metal from Russia
Interview with Valeriy Vedishchev
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Interview by Andrew Stanton
Hello and welcome to Inside the Darkness. Hello, nice to meet you! My name is Valeriy, keyboardist, composer and leader of the AURA band. - Can you tell our readers a bit about your history, please? The AURA band was founded by Valeriy Vedishchev in Moscow in 2009. Initially, it was a power-metal project in the spirit of Nightwish, in the same vein a demo was recorded, one of the songs of which - “Mistress of the Runes”, contributed to the band gaining some fame. In
2010, this metal-edited song was released as a separate single on the disc-supplement to Dark City magazine. Gradually, the band in its sound comes to an organic musical fusion, the fundamental is power metal with elements of many other styles of mu-
group actively plays concerts in Moscow clubs, and in November 2011 in Orenburg it takes part in the Russian sympho rock music awards festival. In February 2013, the single “Ghost of Fate” was released, which quickly won the recognition of listeners and was aired on the “Keeper of Dreams” program on radio Echo of Moscow. In the same 2013, the group performed in St. Petersburg as an opening act for the group Xandria, receiving good reviews from the public and German fellow musicians.
ion t a r i p s n i give s n o i t o lings e m e f E l l a h t i re w and interfe tail. k c o c n o m m into one co sic - from black metal to folk. In 2012, the band released their first EP “Comet”. During the same period, the
