In 2013, the band prepared a follow-up single titled Petrichor, featuring bouzoukitara playing and a guitar solo from Yossi Sassi, at that moment the guitarist of oriental metal fathers band, Orphaned Land.
In 2015, the band finally changed its name to IGNEA and released a new work called Alga, named after a war call of Crimean Tatar people. This song is contributed to Crimeans who are defending their land.
Alga is the first ever original song from a Ukrainian band, recorded with a full symphonic orchestra. The video was shot unintentionally and on low budget as the band wanted to use orchestra sessions footage in something bigger, than video diary. Over the year, the video gathered over million views on YouTube.
Recently, IGNEA opened the show of Orphaned Land, fathers of oriental metal, in Kiev, Ukraine.
In 2017, the band released its first full-length album called The Sign of Faith, having a heavier sound, both clean and extreme vocals, and authentic middle-eastern melodies. Its first song, Şeytanu Akbar, was accompanied by an animated anti-terrorism video in a surrealistic style. Despite the provocative title of the song, the band’s intention is to carry the idea of peace.
Over 2017, IGNEA has been promoting the new album through solo shows and festivals in Ukraine within ‘The Tour of Faith’. Early 2018, IGNEA has released an official live experience video for Şeytanu Akbar recorded at national The Best Ukrainian Metal Act awards, where the band has entered the top 3 best metal bands in the country.
In April 2018, the band has released an animated video for its OST-like song How I Hate the Night, the lyrics to which belong to the paranoid android Marvin from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The video contains lots of references to the original movie.
For IGNEA, the years 2018 and 2019 were dedicated to touring and writing the new material. In May 2018, IGNEA has toured in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands, together with the Nordic death metal legends Illdisposed, as well as performed selected shows in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and festivals in France, Lithuania, and Ukraine.
September 2018, IGNEA released a new single Queen Dies with an art video and hopped on a 3-week tour across 9 countries within the Female Metal Voices Tour 2018 headlined by Butcher Babies and Kobra and the Lotus. In summer 2019, IGNEA had a small leg of headline shows in Spain and performed at the main stage of the Vagos Metal Festival in Portugal.
IGNEA’s second full-length album The Realms of Fire and Death was released on April 17, 2020. It was fully funded by the band's patrons. It is a concept album with strong story-telling, metaphors, symbols, and is accompanied by a book of short tales incorporating the lyrics of each song. It is divided into three major parts, each consisting of 3 songs, plus a bonus track — an English version of the Ukrainian Чорне Полум’я (Chorne Polumia). Songs of each part are outlining a certain separate story, bringing the themes of fire and death from various perspectives. The band also released two official music videos video for the song Disenchantment and Jinnslammer.
According to the national awards The Best Ukrainian Metal Act, The Realms of Fire and Death has been selected as the metal album of the year and IGNEA has been named the best Ukrainian metal band of 2020.
In June 2021, IGNEA signed a deal with Napalm Records and started working on the third album that was planned for 2022. The album release has been postponed to 2023 because of the Russia-Ukraine full-scale war.
Before bringing the new full-length record to the world, in October 2021, the band treated its fans with BESTIA, a concept EP about the human nature of Slavic mythological creatures and the world’s duality. In Ukrainian, BESTIA (Ukr. «бестія») means both a savage beast and a mischievous person. This is a split record that consists of songs by two Ukrainian bands — IGNEA and ERSEDU — and is a result of their 10-year friendship.
IGNEA’s third full-length album Dreams of Lands Unseen is out through Napalm Records on April 28th, 2023.
In 2023, IGNEA has released official videos for the songs Nomad's Luck, Dunes, and Incurable Disease.
The 10-track concept album reflects the life of Ukrainian photographer and documentarian Sofia Yablonska, known for traveling to very distant corners of the world while documenting the lives of tribes and natives, which was especially dangerous and uncommon for a woman of her time. Sonically, IGNEA creates a captivating masterpiece which resembles, thanks in part to diverse genre-influences, an epic soundtrack-like experience.
The band will present the album live at such European festivals as MetalDays, Leyendas del Rock, SummerBreeze, as well as at club shows on EU & UK tour with Fear Factory and Butcher Babies.
IGNEA are:
Helle Bohdanova — vocals;
Yevhenii Zhytniuk — keyboards;
Oleksandr Kamyshin — bass;
Ivan Kholmohorov — drums;
Dmytro Vinnichenko — guitars.
Halves Rupture
Ignea Lyrics
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The burdens now are grey
A shade of prominence is further now
We are the demon's pray
Solstice hid above the clouds of mourn
Moon behind shines brighter than our hearts torn
Is now for miles and miles
Instead of sun amidst the sky
The burning angel flies
I will forget the brighter times
How nights were lit by glowing moon
I won't recall your ghostly name
How warm your touches were that noon
Solstice hid above the clouds of mourn
Moon behind shines brighter than our hearts torn
Entwining mourn will be my friend
And all the darkness is my norm
And never I will rise from fiend
Until I'm buried in my tomb
Solstice hid above the clouds of mourn
Moon behind shines brighter than our hearts torn
Stop this madness, scatter the tempest away
Sun will light our path to the freedom today
The lyrics of the song Halves Rupture by Ignea paint a picture of a dark and bleak world, where the burdens of life have turned everything grey. The song speaks of a demon's prey, implying that the singer or the world at large is under the thrall of an evil force. The Solstice, hiding above the clouds of mourn, and the moon shining brighter than the hearts torn, lend an air of hopelessness and despair to the lyrics.
The singer reminisces about a ghostly presence that was once near, but now seems miles away, lost in the darkness. As the burning angel flies in place of the sun, the singer pledges to forget the brighter times, the touching memories of a love long gone, and embrace the darkness and mourn as a friend. The song ends with a plea to stop the madness, scatter the tempest, and let the sun light the path to freedom.
Line by Line Meaning
There is no glimpse of a previous sky
We cannot see the sky from before because we are burdened by the present.
The burdens now are grey
The weight we carry is colorless and dull like a burden.
A shade of prominence is further now
The darkness of our situation seems more prominent now.
We are the demon's pray
We are vulnerable to the demons that haunt us.
Solstice hid above the clouds of mourn
The solstice is hidden by our mourning and sorrow.
Moon behind shines brighter than our hearts torn
The moon's light is stronger than the pain we feel.
A ghost of somewhere near
There is a faint memory of something near.
Is now for miles and miles
The memory is distant and far away.
Instead of sun amidst the sky
There is no sun, only a burning angel in the sky.
The burning angel flies
The angel of destruction moves freely.
I will forget the brighter times
I will choose to forget the joyful memories.
How nights were lit by glowing moon
I used to find comfort in the moonlight.
I won't recall your ghostly name
I will forget the name of the person who haunts me.
How warm your touches were that noon
I will forget the warmth of their touch on that sunny day.
Entwining mourn will be my friend
I will embrace my grief and let it consume me.
And all the darkness is my norm
I am used to this darkness that surrounds me.
And never I will rise from fiend
I will not escape my demons.
Until I'm buried in my tomb
I will be haunted until my death.
Stop this madness, scatter the tempest away
Put an end to this chaos, banish the storm.
Sun will light our path to the freedom today
The sun will guide us towards freedom and hope.
Contributed by Riley T. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Wilson 95
This song is just wonderful.. I can't wait for the new album ❤
Ignea Band
thank you! :)
Daniel Martín García
This song is 10/10, holly shit those growls and clean vocals are sooooo sick
Great music and more😈🤘
✅💎🖤❤️😈🤘🤘
jeena djo
Daniel Martín García righttttt
Leo Henrique
Very good... Ignea Band was one of my best accidental discoveries on youtube! Keep up the great work.
Great music and more😈🤘
Me too! Great accident 🤣🤘
Crystallization of the soul
@Ignea Band You sound trascendental to be honest! Like from another dimension! You probably played music in another dimension! A lower sephirot maybe!
Ignea Band
so glad to hear that! will keep up for sure
Syxpounder
Qué gusto que YouTube me los recomendara, muy buena música y también muy buen uso de esta plataforma para dar a conocer sus trabajos 😉