Ukrainian alternative art assembly at KILKIM ZAIBU XIX

One of the main themes of KILKIM ŽAIBU festival this year is strengthening of friendship between live history enthusiasts and alternative art creators from the Baltic countries and Ukraine. We will develop cultural exchanges; examine the links between Ukraine and Baltic countries in history, lifestyle, mythology and symbolism. To analyze the ethnic identity of Balts, Scandinavians and Slavs we will demonstrate the similarities and differences of the tribes.

Performers of various alternative genres were selected to represent Ukraine in the festival.

The first representatives are the most striking Ukrainian metal band NOKTURNAL MORTUM. The band's latest album "Істина" has received "Album of the Year" award in Ukrainian metal music awards in 2017. The same album is mentioned in many of top lists of black metal critics around the world.

NOKTURNAL MORTUM is hard to fit into a frame of a single genre - for over 20 years the band has been braiding the vines of black, folk, symphonic, pagan styles even adding progressive and post-rock spices. What is great is that everything, every chord and sound is in its place, it is impossible to remove or add anything. These musicians are able to rely only on their creative instincts, not on defined canons.

JORYJ KŁOC - An emotional opposite from the aforementioned representatives of dark arts. This is an extremely positive and cheerful quartet from Lvov that performs its energetic performances using traditional instruments of Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania in immortal style of rock'n'roll and even drum'n'bass.
These Ukrainians have been getting along with enthusiasts of ancient traditions in Lithuania for some time now; therefore, JORYJ KŁOC will play two renditions of Lithuanian songs in their style during the performance in the festival.

KZOHH - shamans of black metal and ambient rituals captivate with atmospheric keyboards and electronic sounds that flutter in the air like disturbing phantoms. The band delves into dark themes and stories of the middle ages and presents them with an extremely distinctive engagement of listeners into the meditative abyss of dark art.

WHITE WARD is another unique musical event from Ukraine in recent years, not only in metal, but also in whole music scene. Depressive black metal, catchy jazz landscapes and sophisticated electronic spices - WHITE WARD travels through the darkest strangest images of human consciousness. Alternate art news hunters already mention the name of the band in their favorite album lists and predict a bright future for it.

In addition to the aforementioned musical collectives, live history enthusiasts from Ukraine who will showcase the antique crafts will also come to the festival and present their X-XII century ethnic costumes, participate in games. It may be that the Ukrainian Cossacks will test their strength not only in friendly competitions, but also in the battle ring in order for us to be able to assess the similarities and differences between the lifestyle and warfare of Balts and Slavs.

We would like to remind you that festival will take place during the last weekend of June in Varniai.
Tickets will get more expensive from March 1.