In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, resulting in a control of a third of the Kharkiv Oblast. Residing nearby emerged two black metal projects. Specifically in Kharkiv lived musician Vladyslav Blizniuk of Vyr Muk, with anonymous act 1310M from Izyum.
With bonding trauma in their veins, the aforementioned black metallers funneled their hate into the new, collaborative four-track titled Холодне Мовчання Зірок, or roughly The cold silence of the stars. Vyr Muk‘s opener “Червона Чума” (“Red Plague”) reflects on the starvation within Soviet communism atop late Mayhem suspenseful atmospheres and the blackened riffs of Behemoth.
“Напіврозпад” (“Half Life”) continues the vindictive tone and theatrics for a Chernobyl black metal ballad.
Leaning more into a poetic and experimental approach, 1310M closes off the EP with “В Країні Могильного Сна” (“In the Land of Grave Sleep”) and “Голод” (“Hunger”), arranged like an aggressive version of White Ward.
You can listen and purchase the split EP – Холодне Мовчання Зірок by Vyr Muk and 1310 now on Bandcamp.