STALWART

Band was formed in autumn 1999. Stalwart members had previously played in different St. Petersburg local metal bands, such as Bestial Deform, Clangor, Vengeance, Fading Pictures, Mincing Machine. In July August 2000 Stalwart recorded their debut album "Jerk", which was released on cassettes in the beginning 2001 by Russian label Fono Productions. After this release Stalwart started live activity and played as support act for such bands as Nightwish, Finntroll and Norther.
In summer 2002 Stalwart started recording their second album. Drums tracks were recodred in Astia Studio, Finland, by Anssi Kippo (Children Of Bodom, Impaled Nazarene, To/Die/For, Norther), other part of work was done in St. Petersburg. In 2003 band signed a deal with Soyuz Music, and in October 2003 "Dive To Nowhere" was released. This album had very good reivews in Russian Metal press, some magazines defined it as "one of the bests Russian metal releases in 2003".
In summer 2004 MetalAgen/Soyuz re-released Stalwart's first album "Jerk" on CDs.
In the beginning of 2007 Stalwart started recording their third album "Abyss Ahead". Famous Poland studio Hertz was booked, and this record was produced by Slawek and Wojtek Wieslawski (Vader, Decapitated, Hate). Work was completed in May, with mixing and mastering also done in Hertz studio. "Abyss Ahead" was released for Russia/CIS states on May 4th, 2008.
At the end of May Stalwart entered Hertz again to record brand new full lenght album. At the moment recording and mixing is finished, and mastering is supposed to be done by the end of July.

Discography

Abyss Ahead (2008)