We are a Heavy Metal band that consists of four musicians.
It all started on October 30, 2005 with a keyboard player Eddie Riumin and a guitarist/vocalist Kim Izmaylov . That day the two enthusiasts got together to jam. A temporary name "Blacksmith" was chosen for the band. It was obvious that this name had to be changed at some point, since there were 849 423
bands with the same name. A week or two later they managed to perform a few classic russian rock covers in front of a small crowd gathering.
In a month or so it was decided that they needed more people in the band. On December 11, 2005 Andrian Sevastyanov joined them and took the role of playing guitar along with Kim. After a few months of playing in this line-up Eddie decided that he no longer wanted to play keyboard. His passion were drums. So, the only problem left was to find a proficient bass player. After almost two years of struggling and seeing bass players come and go, the trio invited Marco Restagno to join. At that time the bassist was playing in five different bands, but soon switched to only one (the better one ;)
The name Kooznetz (russian translation of Blacksmith) was officially chosen on May 12, 2007. This was also the day when it was decided that we are going to stay together and make quality music. We specialize in playing Metal and are up to something big.
