[6] Despite relatively little media exposure, Amatory has gained a huge following[7] in a short time through their live performances in Russia, Eastern and Northern Europe, and Central Asia.
[13] He started to distance himself from his bandmates, therefore they did a little trick to get their drummer back – they began to write music in the grindcore style but little by little introduced the elements of alternative metal.
[16] Gradually they realized that they needed a second guitarist, after a short search they found Sergey [GANG] Osechkin (Russian: Сергей Осечкин).
Later they found out that Liolik was on his way to the club when he was stopped by a police patrol to verify his documents and unexpectedly was drafted into the military service for two years following PJ.
[21] The album titled Fortune's Always Hiding (Russian: Вечно Прячется Судьба) with Denver and Lexus on vocals was released on November 14, 2003.
It was named after one of the songs that was inspired by Irvine Welsh's novella Fortune's Always Hiding from his trilogy Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.
[24] Following the release the team immediately took up work on new material in collaboration with Danish producer Jacob Hansen (Amaranthe, Volbeat, Epica).
In early 2005, the band released their first DVD titled [P]ost [S]criptum, consisted of home videos recorded by themselves, their crew and friends during the tour in support of the album "Inevetability".
[15] Osechkin passed away at the age of 23 on March 15, 2007, and was buried with his first guitar Jackson, given to him by his grandmother, at the Memorial cemetery to the Victims of 9 January in Saint Petersburg.
[29] According to [STEWART], they sank into heavy drinking for a time, and it was their session guitarist Niky Yuriev who kept them from getting depressed during the first leg of the Live Evil tour.
[30] Around this time the band also gained a following outside of Russia and ex-USSR countries – they received many fan mails from Latin America, Europe, Indonesia, etc.
[29] In the spring of 2007, Amatory went on the second leg of the Live Evil tour with session guitarist Ivan Ludewig (Russian: Иван Людевиг, ex-Kirpichi).
It provided an insight into the creation of new songs in collaboration with Danish producer Tue Madsen,[37] known for his work with Meshuggah, Dark Tranquility, Suicide Silence, etc.
[38] In November, [AMATORY] released a single Breathe with me (Russian: Дыши Со Мной) and signed a contract with the music label FG Nikitin.
This song got in heavy rotation on the radio in Russia and some neighbouring countries, it stayed seven weeks at number one surpassing The Prodigy and Depeche Mode.
[43] On October 27, 2009, the band released an internet single Crimson Dawn (Russian: Багровый Рассвет) mixed by American producer Chris Zeuss Harris.
Вся правда о группе [AMATORY])" written by the music journalist Aleksey Kuzovlev (Russian: Алексей Кузовлев).
The book tells about the band’s early days, thorny way to the overwhelming success, and contains many exclusive interviews with [DENVER], [IGOR], [ALEX], [STEWART] and [JAY] taken over two and a half years.
[46] Two weeks later, on July 28, at the height of [AMATORY]’s fame, Igor Kapranov (aged 23) announced that he is quitting music and going to devote himself to religion.
Thereafter he joined [AMATORY] for a brief time as the special guest on the occasion of the band’s tenth anniversary and then he was singing solely in a church choir for several years.
New material for the album was ready, a record studio was booked, the airplane tickets to Saint Petersburg for Madsen were bought, consequently the band had to find a new vocalist in an extremely short time.
[54] On June 13, 2012, [AMATORY] announced upcoming suspension of its activities, saying this on the official website where the band explained this decision by the fact that the musicians were not able to go on long tours.
[59] On January 30, 2015, the team performed a new song called "Stop The Time" (Russian: Остановить Время) at the Stars Fucktory Festival, it was released as a single on June 15, 2015.
The last straw was the participation of Slava in TV project The Songs on TNT (Russian: Песни на ТНТ) where he did not act correctly towards the band.
[65] On March 29, 2019, [AMATORY] unexpectedly released a single "Space Kamikaze" (Russian: Космо-камикадзе) with a new incognito vocalist, whose face was covered by a mask.
Many guesses were confirmed – Sergei Raev (a member of Obscure of Acacia, Triumphant, also known for working with Shokran and Sumatra) became the new vocalist of the band.
It is a concept album with cold sombre atmosphere, dealing with dark side of human nature[69] such as gluttony, greed, sloth, etc.
[73] On December 31, 2019, [AMATORY] announced a New Year song competition "We Play – You Sing" for writing the lyrics and the vocals to one of the instrumentals that was rejected from the album.