Flymore

Flymore
Flymore performing live. 2011
Background information
Origin	Russia
Genres	alternative metal, nu metal
Years active	2002 – Present
Labels	Right Recordings (UK)[1]
Website	flymoreband.com facebook.com/flymoreband myspace.com/flymore youtube.com/flymoreband
Members
Max "Frozt" Morozov Igor "Fly" Mukhin Denis "Check" Rybakov Serj Yashin Nikita Alekseev

Flymore is a nu metal band, born in Russia. Numerous observers pay heed to the band took a lot of inspiration from Korn and the band members do not argue, adding a remark they were inspired by a Nu Metal genre and are still devoted to the particularly Old Nu Metal School.

History

Igor Mukhin and Denis Rybakov were the first members of the band, having met in 2002. Millennium began in the surroundings of Igor Mukhins's bedroom studio, where they practiced the band's first material. They spent a lot of their free time playing such material as Nirvana and Green Day. Millennium’s early material was compared to such acts as Limp Bizkit, Nirvana and Rage Against The Machine. Both Mukhin and Rybakov wanted to get more than they had at that time. They recruited drummer Dmitriy Kurin and a singer named Frozt, who left his band and wanted to try something new with Millennium. The band made their debut gig at Ivanovo's Rock club. After that, Millennium played anywhere they could with local bands and increased their fan base. Eventually, they landed a show at Moscow legendary annual music contest Rock in the Fire in 2004. A year later, Dmitriy was dropped due to the band being dissatisfied with him and his alcohol addiction.

In 2005, the band took notice of drummer Serj Kulikov after seeing his band Tvorok and attempted to get him to join Millennium. Serj initially did not want to join the band and refused them. Soon after that the guitarist of Tvorok left the band and Serj became the new drummer for Millennium.

The band soon received notice that “Millennium" was already taken so the they changed their name to Flymore. Igor proposed to invite his friend Nik to a jam session as a second guitarist and the band members liked him, so after some talks they started to play together. The band started playing live shows and writing new material, and in 2007, Flymore recorded their full-length debut LP “Millennium 45” with producer Dmitriy Taravkov which was released on October 6, 2009.

Dmitriy has previously worked with a lot of famous Russian metal acts. Flymore stayed in Moscow for three months and worked on more than 20 songs with Dmitriy at Mosfilm Studio. Together they decided on 12 of them to arrange, fine tune and shape so they best reflected the group's style.

Since 2007 Flymore started touring nationwide and performing at all rock festivals all over the former USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus.

Style

Flymore – is the devotion to the Old School of Nu Metal. The band has taken many influences from music genres that were established in the '90s. In the works of their debut album Millennium IV V, they fine-tuned a sound that fused elements of Dark Wave, Industrial Metal, and atmospheric music styles with more raw sound of Nu Metal. Flymore's current dream is to add a big deal to the development of Nu Metal.

Being Russian by birth, the band sings in English. This is also a sign of devotion to the style. Flymore members consider:

"Russian language is the best solution in the genre so cold Russian Rock Style, appeared in St.Petersburg after the Soviet Union collapse, but Nu metal was born in USA in English language and should remain as such, if we pretend to preserve the tradition."

Some music commentators remark that Flymore’s compositions are saturated with the rigid guitar riffs, have a like-Industrial cyclic structure, vocal is dry, colored with a brutal hoarseness, does impress with its severity. “It reminds Jonathan Davis, - they say, - though, thanks Got, it’s not Davis”.

The new album will come out in late spring 2012. Its compositions differ from the previous album by their brutal sensitivity, guitar drive, wider variations of themes. And still the major principle for the Flymore band is The Nu Metal. It is to preserve and to expand the style in its primordial form. Musicians experiment with a «tasty» rock sounds in their new works, express a fat energy and a deep emotions with the help of music, they look for inspiration in a sound density, symmetry of harmony and in the performance quality itself.

Mascot

Poster for All The Time I Bled single

Flymore has a motto 'If you want to fly then FlyMore'. At the same time the band's mascot is not flying as a human activity but A Fly. At least one fly appears at any official video of the band and presents on each poster, on merch. The mascot is rooted from Igor Muchin's nickname FLY: which comes from translating of his family name from Russian into in English.

Members

• Max "Frozt" Morozov - vocal (since 2002)
• Igor "Fly" Mukhin - guitar (since 2002)
• Denis "Chek" Rybakov - bass (since 2002)
• Serj Yashin- drums (since 2011)
• Nikita Alekseev - guitar (since 2006)

Former Members:

• Serj Kulikov - Drums (2005–2011)
• Dmitriy Kurin - Drums (2002–2005)

Discography

• Millennium 45 (2009)
  1. "Intro" - 1:43
  2. "Misunderstanding" - 4:39
  3. "Wake Up" - 4:08
  4. "All the Time I Bled" - 2:58
  5. "My Last Goodbye" - 4:51
  6. "I Will Still Sing" - 3:46
  7. "Queen of the Damned" - 4:48
  8. "Nothing Personal" - 3:49
  9. "Insane" - 3:29
  10. "Hold On" - 3:14
  11. "Live It Up" - 3:38
  12. "My Destination" - 2:43
  13. "Asylum - 5:08