In Nick Perumov's "Chronicle of Hjorvard" Rakoth is the half-god, so-called "True Mage", who had the title Master of Darkness for using Darkness for his magic. He rose against the Young Gods accusing them of being Liars stealing mortals' freedom. After his second try he was defeated, disincarnated and bound to the world called "The Bottom of Worlds". With help of his friend, Hedin "Aware of Darkness", he returned and overthrew the Young Gods thus becoming the New God along with Hedin.
December, 1996 - the band is formed completely with coming of Black as vocalist with "clean" voice and changing bassist to Den. All music is written by Rustam and Ilya, lyrics - by Rustam. Now the band has its own face - Black's clean voice and Rustam's keys. The first song created is "Return of the Nameless" (first edition). The song becomes famous (in Obninsk) long before the first gig.
February, 1997 - the first concert together with Dissenter - techno-death band. The concert represents the fest titled "Rock against chemical dependence". Needless to say that everyone (especially some members of the band) is deadly drunk. Nevertheless the gig is extremely successful. Amazingly, public seems to know RAKOTH well although no tapes are distributed yet and no gigs were given before. RAKOTH plays own early songs "Return of the Nameless" (first variant), "Unholy Temple", "One Step Beyond" (which is unrecognizably transformed into the song "Beyond" later), "Dying Realm" and STORM's "Nagellstev".
March, 1997 - Tense relationship inside the band. Rustam claims to leave the band. Simultaneously Leshy and F. say they wanted to leave long ago. Band collapses. F., Leshy and Ilya form the band they call GORBUG and play black metal.
May, 1997 - Rustam decides to form new band and offers Black and Den to join. They plan to play doom with some other styles elements. Coincidentally, at the same time the band Dissenter falls apart and its guitarist/vocalist Dy wishes to play deeper music than death metal. Den invites him to the new band, which has no name yet. New line-up: Rustam - keys & voice, Black - voice, Den - bass, Dy - guitars. Leshy offers his help with drums. The band rehearses at Rustam's garage.
June, 1997 - Band is in search for the name. Many variants proposed (MEPHISTO, UNBORN, TEARS, DOWNFALL, IN THIS ROOM), but none satisfies. Finally, Dy proposes to use the name RAKOTH again. Taking into account that old band RAKOTH doesn't exist anymore and that the name was offered by Rustam in the beginning, the name RAKOTH is accepted.
July, 1997 - Leshy officially joins RAKOTH. The first demo "Tales of the Worlds Unreal" is recorded right in the garage.
August, 1997 - Tape is given to A. Arzamascev, the head of Arzamascev's Music Center (later - Signal Studios). He decides to allow the band to record free at his studio. Demo tape "Dark Ages Chronicle" is recorded live, with no post-mixing, during only 4 hours. The quality of recording is that high that noone believes in that short recording time and in live recording. Later, in review given in DEATHRIDER 'zine we can see: "This tape was recorded (according to legend) during only 4(!) hours…". Rustam starts sending the tapes everywhere.
September, 1997 - Solo-concert. As in the first case, the public knows the band well, so the gig goes perfectly. October, 1997 - Leshy suddenly leaves RAKOTH. He plays with Fascist (now Tuur) and Ilya (now Vuulko) in their band they renamed into Темнозорь. They play so-called "true" pagan metal.
February, 1998 - First review on "Dark Ages Chronicle" appears in VAE SOLIS web-zine. Positive one. All later reviews are positive as well.
March, 1998 - Latvian distro-label starts distributing "Dark Ages Chronicle". April, 1998 - Rustam starts his solo-project Umbral Presence in order to create something more aggressive (and personal) than RAKOTH.
June, 1998 - Another Latvian distro, Beverina Productions, starts distribution of "Dark Ages Chronicle".
August, 1998 - The band enters Signal Studios to record their new creation. By the strange coincidence they begin the recording at the same day which was chosen (a year ago) for recording of "Dark Ages Chronicle". It is 18th of August. After the week of work they finally can celebrate the birth of their first full-length (57 minutes) album, titled "Superstatic Equilibrium". During the same session Rustam records the demo for Umbral Presence, "…et germinet Chaos". Both tapes are immediately sent to Elven Witchcraft.
November, 1998 - "Superstatic Equilibrium" and "…et germinet Chaos" are now officially distributed by Elven Witchcraft.
April, 1999 - "code666" is interested in getting RAKOTH's tape. Rustam sends "Superstatic Equilibrium" to Italy.
June, 1999 - "code666" offers a deal to RAKOTH.
August, 1999 - The contract for recording of one album is signed.
November 1999 - The New Album “Planeshift” is out on code666 production (ITALY)
March 2000 - Planeshift took 100/100 on Aardschok Magazine (Holland) & 6/6 on Scream Magazine (Norway), and tons of other highly positive reviews.
April 2000 - a new Deal is signed with code666 for two more albums.
May-June 2000 - composing and arranging new songs for the next album…
... a lot of interesting things between 2000 — 2008 undescribed to fit the format yet...
September the 4th, 2008
After 2,5 years of cooperation Zafod B. the Utkinson announces the great start of his new project(s) which makes him leave Rakoth immediately. The band is still working on its new album nevertheless.
The Dark Heart of Uukrul
Rakoth Lyrics
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Holding the Beacon, holding the night And if one
Of the darkness has won over light The pure
Shall be slaughtered in eternal night" Ruled by
The ancient kings The city under the mountain
Eriosthe laid in peace The Beacon gave the light
The Beacon of powers so great Released at
Once they would Destroy everything These
Too weak to exploit the whole might So I who
Have all the Arcana rings Emerge to claim my
Right I hide my heart within ornate urn At the
Place of no return Eight Beacon's guardians'
Hearts petrified To lock my death inside "The
First behind gases and poisonous air The second
With the dead behind twist and stair The third
With the dragon, the fourth in a cell The fifth in
The depth warped by evil spell The sixth with
His hordes, the seventh in a pit And the last in
The Stronghold where the Dark One sits Eight
Frozen keys for six bloodied locks And the
Darkest heart from the coldest rock" "One
Shattered heart shall the Dark One stop..." The
Fools tried before Too feeble were their efforts
So worthless fate is deserved by fool With the
Ancient lore Dark prophecy summoned by
Servant In vain - Areth, thou wilt never rule! If
One had force to find all hearts To hold me
Within this plane And with hammer of black glass
Split my soul apart It would not stop my sinister
Reign The only way to end this all And to make
My citadel fall Is to fire the Beacon inside my
Lair If the gods wish to heed your prayer "Umhir
Deln Fshofth, do saq mishallfen Ersan su
Stramanlisa do saq verhallfen Itor ka skirian,
Thror qastura taras Wur qanar wur stilor wur
Kas"
The song "The Dark Heart of Uukrul" by Rakoth is a story about the struggle between light and darkness for control over the Beacon, an object which holds immense power. The song's narrator, who has all the Arcana rings (which may represent power or knowledge), is claiming his right to take control of the Beacon from the ancient kings who were too weak to handle its power. The singer speaks of hiding his heart within an urn at the Place of no Return and turning to the guardians of the Beacon's eight keys, who had their hearts petrified to ensure his death would be locked away. The singer warns that anyone who tries to prevent him from taking control of the Beacon will suffer a similar fate to the guardians.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm one of the darkness, once of the light I'm
I am a being who was once affiliated with the light, but have now turned towards the darkness.
Holding the Beacon, holding the night And if one
Of the darkness has won over light
I hold the Beacon which brings light into the darkness, but if those from the darkness have become more powerful than those from the light.
The pure
Shall be slaughtered in eternal night
Those who are pure in nature shall be destroyed in an endless night of darkness.
Ruled by
The ancient kings The city under the mountain
Eriosthe laid in peace The Beacon gave the light
The city of Eriosthe was once ruled by ancient kings and was at peace due to the power of the Beacon bringing light.
The Beacon of powers so great Released at
Once they would Destroy everything
If the powers of the Beacon were released all at once, they would have the ability to cause widespread destruction.
These
Powers could not be possessed by the kings
Too weak to exploit the whole might
The kings were not strong enough to fully exploit the immense powers possessed by the Beacon.
So I who
Have all the Arcana rings Emerge to claim my
Right
I, who have possession over all the Arcana rings, have come to claim what is rightfully mine.
I hide my heart within ornate urn At the
Place of no return
To protect my heart from being destroyed by my enemies, it is safely hidden away within an ornate urn in a location where I cannot retrieve it.
Eight Beacon's guardians'
Hearts petrified To lock my death inside
The eight guardians of the Beacon have had their hearts turned to stone, locking away the power of the Beacon within its own walls.
The
First behind gases and poisonous air The second
With the dead behind twist and stair The third
With the dragon, the fourth in a cell The fifth in
The depth warped by evil spell The sixth with
His hordes, the seventh in a pit And the last in
The Stronghold where the Dark One sits
The guardians of the Beacon are hidden behind deadly gases, among the dead in a labyrinth of twists and turns, imprisoned with dragons, and in deep, dark places corrupted by evil magic, guarded by armies and in pits, and finally in the Dark One's Stronghold.
Eight
Frozen keys for six bloodied locks And the
Darkest heart from the coldest rock
To unlock the guardians of the Beacon, there are eight keys and six of them require blood to open. The darkest heart of all is needed to unlock the last door.
"One
Shattered heart shall the Dark One stop..."
Only by shattering my heart can my rule of darkness be stopped.
The
Fools tried before Too feeble were their efforts
So worthless fate is deserved by fool
Others have tried before to defeat me, but their efforts were in vain, and they were foolish for trying against me.
With the
Ancient lore Dark prophecy summoned by
Servant In vain - Areth, thou wilt never rule!
Even following ancient lore and dark prophecy cannot help defeat me, as Areth had tried before and failed.
If
One had force to find all hearts To hold me
Within this plane And with hammer of black glass
Split my soul apart
The only way to end my reign is to find all of my hidden hearts, keep me on this plane, and shatter my soul with a hammer of black glass.
It would not stop my sinister
Reign
Even with all of the measures taken, my reign of darkness would still persist.
The only way to end this all
And to make
My citadel fall Is to fire the Beacon inside my
Lair
The only way to destroy my citadel and end my rule is to use the powers of the Beacon inside my own lair.
If the gods wish to heed your prayer "Umhir
Deln Fshofth, do saq mishallfen Ersan su
Stramanlisa do saq verhallfen Itor ka skirian,
Thror qastura taras Wur qanar wur stilor wur
Kas"
If the gods are willing to listen, the words 'Umhir Deln Fshofth, do saq mishallfen Ersan su Stramanlisa do saq verhallfen Itor ka skirian, Thror qastura taras Wur qanar wur stilor wur Kas' may be spoken to destroy me completely.
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