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WANDERER project was created in the summer of 2003 by two participants known as Mysterion and Dragonheart. The basis for their joint creativity was their common ideas and expeditions to the ancient natural monuments which embodied the burden of the bygone centuries, and whose secrets were not always and willingly unveiled at once, but unveiled in any way. During these expeditions the project concept was also discussed. Both participants already had their own bands and sufficient experience in musical activities at the moment of WANDERER's creation. In 2004 the band recorded the first album «Bypassing The Abyss», which was released later by Magik Art (Russia). Composing and recording of the album took 3 months of summer and 2 months of autumn of 2003, the rest of the time was taken looking for a label. Many interesting facts concern the album recording and releasing. Mysterion trained his vocal skills in the forest, where he also enjoyed to paint his pictures. When he sang - cut-glass ware danced on the shelves of a pub. Namely in that moment some troubles occurred, and this fact almost affected the fate of the album - unexpected problems with health overtook the vocalist. However, on the way to the label via snail mail, the master-CD was scratched, and was delivered for replication with defects in the form of clicks. Soon after the issue of this album the label collapsed, and the album didn't get any wide distribution and attention. The album's main idea and lyrics concern the greatness of the Nature and perfection of the space towering above the human being and his household society, consisting of "obsession with flashy things" and aspirations for material values. It should be noted that separate fragments of vocal parts were recoded in the woods and caves of Slavyanogorsk (Ukraine), with use of natural cave reverberation (and natural wood compression).

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Sales Points

• A must for fans of BURZUM, DRUDKH, ANCIENT and old DARKTHRONE.
• Parts of the vocals were recorded in a rotten and very old cave.
• Featuring members of TANGORODREAM and LYCH GATE.
• Artwork done by the famous Russian designer Al.Ex {Mayhem Project}
• Noble Digipack CD Edition with 12 page booklet and complete new wonderful artwork.

Press Quotes

'Underground Metal Maniacs will love this masterpiece !', 8.5/10

     —Daniel M�ller, Crossfire Metal Magazine

'The band succeeded in keeping the raw black metal aesthetics of the early 1990s: slowly-crawling and almost predictable guitar riffs, imposing drums, stormy bass and agonizing vocals are the main characteristics of the album...', 7/10

     —Dead Void Dreams Magazine

'... we're also told that 'a portion of the album's vocal parts were recorded in the woods and caves of Slavyanogorsk (Ukraine)', 7/10

     —Chronicles of Chaos Magazine

'Recommended Buy !!!'

     —Occult Black Metal Zine

... Bypassing the Abyss has an incredible sound, hideously harsh and yet wonderfully atmospheric.

     —Chris Kee, Zero Tolerance