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Komu Vnyz (Ukrainian: Кому Вниз, [koˈmu wʊ̯niz]) is a Ukrainian rock band founded in 1988. Komu Vnyz's music is a blend of gothic and industrial styles, combined with the lyrics of ancient Ukrainian legends.

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Komu Vnyz Кому Вниз
Komu Vnyz
Background information
Origin	Kyiv, Ukraine
Genres	Gothic rock
Years active	1988 – present
Labels	Ukrainian Gothic Portal
Members	Andriy Sereda Volodyslav Maliuhin Serhiy Stepanenko Yevhen Razin
Past members	Volodyslav Makarov
Website	http://www.komuvnyz.com

The band name is a perestroika-time derogatory pun with the term "Communism". It is literally translated as "Who needs to go down".[1]

History

Komu Vnyz got its start in the year 1988. Unknown young actor Andriy Sereda and educator Volodyslav Makarov worked together in the same theater. Sereda and Makarov joined with three more artists (Serhiy Stepanenko, Yevhen Razin, Volodyslav Maliuhin) to make Komu Vnyz. They wound up at their first festival Chervona Ruta completely by chance. It was too late to submit the sample recording to the panel of judges for the tryout, but Taras Petrynenko, after listening to their work, insisted that they participated in the event. They received second place.^{[citation needed]}

After releasing their first album "Padaya Vverkh" ("Falling Up"), Komu Vnyz and the rest of the Chervona Ruta winners toured in Canada, Poland, and many Ukrainian cities.

From 1996 onward, Komu Vnyz came out from the precipice of financial difficulties. Playbills started to appear railings and fences in Kyiv for their 1997 concert, In Kastus, named for one of their albums.

In 2000 the band played at Ivan Franko theater, performing a concert dedicated to the memory of 300 young students killed under Kruty. They also headlined at the first Ukrainian gothic festival, "Dity Nochi" ("Children of the Night"), organized by Ukrainian Gothic Portal, and started to work with UGP. In 2002 the band played at the European gothic festival, Wave Gotik Treffen.[2]

In 2003, Makarov left the band. He died in January 2016. As of 2019, the band still continues their activity. Premier Minister of Ukraine, Oleksiy Honcharuk, has even visited "Veterans Strong Party" war-veteran charity concert where the band performed along with others.[3]

Discography

Albums

• 1989 - Padaya vverkh (Падая вверх)
• 1990 - Komu vnyz (Кому вниз)
• 1996 - In kastus

EPs

• 2007 - Ab ovo usque ad mala
• 2014 - 4
• 2016 - IDEM 2345

Live albums

• 1999 - In kastus in vivo
• 2018 - Live at FEST!republic Lviv
• 2018 - Live at the Lviv Opera House

Compilations

• 2003 - "Komu Vnyz. Rock legends of Ukraine" ("Best of" collection)
• 2006 - "Komu Vnyz. MP3 collection"
• 2009 - "Komu Vnyz. Reformatsiya: 25 punktiv" ("Best of" collection)
• 2011 - "Ya Vernuvsia Domiv" (Tribute to Braty Hadiukiny)

References

External links

• Official Komu Vnyz website

На других языках

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- [en] Komu Vnyz

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[ru] Кому вниз

«Кому вниз» — украинская рок-группа. В альманахе искусствоведа и музыкального критика Александра Евтушенко творчество «Кому вниз» определено как «готик-фолк-индастриал-рок»[2].

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