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Mental Home have simply created a crowning achievement of Atmospheric Dark Doom Metal! Black Art unfolds to an exceptional experience laced with the most beautiful and artful melodies. The album features nine compositions that reach levels of ingenuity, atmospheres that beatify emotions, colossal riffs that transcend time, evocative and melancholic keyboards, and vocals filled with wrath, torment and sadness. A landmark release that truly redefines the meaning of Art... ...the Black Art!!! The album comes in a full color digipak and further includes a bonus clay animation clip of "Pagan Freedom" ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: Mental Home was formed in November of 1993. The original line-up featured the two brothers, Sergey Dmitriev (Vocal/Guitar) and Igor Dmitriev (Drums/Keys), and also Roman Povarov (Lead Guitar) and Denis Samusev (Bass). Taking after an atmospheric doom/death approach the band recorded their first demo "Funeral Service" in January '94. The recordings took place at the Vnukovo Studio, where all the band's recording have been taking place since. Soon after, the band returned back to the studio and in July '94 "Mirrorland" comes forth climbing to new heights. The album was released on MC by Metal Agen Rec/Soyuz selling 5,000 copies and it's since sold-out. Due to an accident, Roman Povarov was left with a impairment in his left hand and was forced to abandon his guitar duties and fully took over the keyboards. The band chose Sergey Kalachov as the new lead guitarist and headed back to the studio to record the highly acclaimed "Vale" which was released in the Spring of '96 by Morbid Noizz. The album sold out in Moscow in less than 3 months and hit the Russian Metal Charts #1 in July of the same year. Shortly after, Roman Povarov abandoned Mental Home. The band invited Michael "Maiden" Smirnoff to join and Maiden not only replaced Roman on keyboards but also took over as manager of Mental Home. In March of '97 Mental Home returned to the studio and began the recordings of their new album. By June they completed their 4th brand new album entitled "Black Art" which included an intro, 8 songs and one instrumental theme. During that time the band also worked on re-releasing their debut "Funeral service" ('94) and "Mirrorland" ('95). In the fall of 1997, Mental Home signed a three album deal with the US based label, The End Records. First release is "Vale" on CD. The album is available worldwide as of January 12, 1998. As of August 11, 1998 the massive "Black Art" album, is also available through The End Records.