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.
Jahi
Ignea Lyrics
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Nothing is more apart from the seen.
All intentions and thoughts of the inner
Disappear faster than they're revealed.
You're gravitating to the filth
And worshipping the daevas.
Though you are in the boundless beams,
Where the darkness caresses the meadows,
Only chosen can spin in the circuit.
But the lightsome, they do have their shadows,
No one's perfect, turns out, no one's perfect.
Dark above the Earth,
Dark beneath the ground.
All the unexplored,
Genuine is dark.
Darksome above the Earth,
Darksome under ground.
All occult is powerful,
Unknown is dark.
The lyrics to Ignea's song Jahi include a portrayal of contrasts, involving various themes such as light and darkness, perfection and imperfection, intention and revelation, possession and disappearance. While the blazing light gores possessions of Ohrmazd, implying a forceful dominance over something considered precious, nothing is more apart from the seen, suggesting an invisible element at play, possibly involving the ethereal. The intentions and thoughts of the inner disappear faster than they're revealed, evoking a dynamic of fleeting insight and uncertainty.
The lyrics then shift to address the listener directly, asserting that they're gravitating to the filth and worshipping the daevas, suggesting a downward trajectory towards darkness and disarray. However, despite being in the boundless beams, the singer puts their Jahi shadow on the listener, hinting at a protective measure or possibly even a warning.
The next stanza contrasts darkness and light again, with the chosen spinning in the circuit where darkness caresses the meadows, and the lightsome having their shadows. The stanza suggests that no one is perfect, highlighting the duality of existence and the potential for both light and dark to coexist.
The final stanza reiterates the power of darkness, emphasizing its genuine and occult qualities, and suggesting that the unknown carries a formidable weight.
Line by Line Meaning
Blazing light gores possessions of Ohrmazd,
The intense brightness obliterates the material things that belong to the god Ohrmazd.
Nothing is more apart from the seen.
There is nothing more distant from the physical world that we see around us.
All intentions and thoughts of the inner
All our innermost desires and ideas
Disappear faster than they're revealed.
Disappear rapidly and even before they can be made known to others.
You're gravitating to the filth
You are drawn to the impure and immoral things.
And worshipping the daevas.
And showing devotion to the evil spirits of Persian mythology.
Though you are in the boundless beams,
Even though you may bask in the unlimited light and positivity
I'll put my Jahi shadow on you!
I will cast my shadow of negativity and darkness over you.
Where the darkness caresses the meadows,
In places where the absence of light embraces the fields.
Only chosen can spin in the circuit.
Only a select few can move around in that area without consequences.
But the lightsome, they do have their shadows,
But even those who radiate positivity and good have their own imperfections
No one's perfect, turns out, no one's perfect.
Nobody is completely flawless and perfect, as it turns out.
Dark above the Earth,
The darkness that extends above the planet.
Dark beneath the ground.
The darkness that lies underneath the surface of the Earth.
All the unexplored,
All the unknown and undiscovered things
Genuine is dark.
The truth is often concealed in the darkness.
Darksome above the Earth,
Full of darkness above the ground,
Darksome under ground.
Darkness that extends beneath the Earth's surface.
All occult is powerful,
All things that are mysterious and hidden possess great potency.
Unknown is dark.
The things that we don't understand are often concealed in darkness.
Contributed by John H. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Uaithne
Every song in this album is stunning, I'm totally saving up to buy some merch :D
Ігор Бузницький
Precisely. :)
IGNEA
thank you!
Crystallization of the soul
you sound kinda arabic very symphonic too, just like in alga song at the intro and like very harmonic, to be honest your music make us believe as if we are in another dimension!
Crystallization of the soul
And your guitars OMG, very clean and powerful!!!!! The melodies are stunning and sound like chainguns on fire!!!!!!!!!!!
JoshBrantleyMusic
Helle has a perfect voice. I could listen to her sing all day.
IGNEA
oh, thank you! :)
sumflakjonez
Schpash1 Me too son RAH!!!!
第一代玩家OsuTea
Schpash1 same here +3
velascaux
Schpash1 that is what I actually do... My wife is so jealousy of her...