Drudkh

Many of the band's lyrics are derived from the works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Ukrainian poets (Oleksandr Oles, Oleh Olzhych, Maik Yohansen, etc.)

[citation needed] This record had a strong critical success: for example, it was chosen as the best album of the year by Chronicles of Chaos web-zine.

[5] After the release of Blood in Our Wells, Amorth was exiled from the band, and new members Krechet (bass) and Vlad (drums) joined.

[citation needed] On 19 October 2006, Drudkh released Songs of Grief and Solitude (Пісні скорботи і самітності).

[citation needed] Season of Mist later re-released it as a mini CD in 2009 as part of the deluxe box-set edition of Microcosmos, and it was also included on the band's collection Eastern Frontier in Flames.

[7] On 22 June (14 July in the United States), 2009, the seventh Drudkh album Microcosmos was released through the label Underground Activists, published by Season of Mist.

The standard CD version is a digipak; a limited edition box set also contained an MCD re-release of Anti-Urban.

[10] In November 2009, Season of Mist began re-releasing Drudkh's whole catalogue, starting with remastered reissues of Forgotten Legends and Autumn Aurora,[11] and finishing with new editions of Songs of Grief and Solitude and Estrangement in June 2010.

[12] Drudkh's eighth full-length album, Handful of Stars (Пригорща зірок), was released on 21 September 2010, via Season of Mist.

[13] The release of the new Drudkh full-length was supported with Slavonic Chronicles mini album, which consisted of two covers of Master's Hammer and Sacrilegium.

It was released as a CD only with a deluxe edition of Handful of Stars and also as 10" LP including a download card to get the digital version of the record.

The post-rock direction, that was present at Handful of Stars, has been developed in a new project titled Old Silver Key by Drudkh members with French musician Neige of Alcest on vocals.

[14][15] Drudkh's album Eternal Turn of the Wheel, recorded in summer 2011, was released on 24 February (13 March in North America), 2012, through Season of Mist.

[17] In 2024, former drummer Mykola Sostin, who performed as "Amorth" and was in Drudkh from 2004 to 2006, was killed in battle while fighting for Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War.