INSPIRED BY THE MYSTIC TALES
OF EASTERN EUROPE
Evoking Winds, official band logo, folk metal Belarus
Silent Dawn pt. 2
(Blackened Epic Folk Metal)
FOLK METAL EPOS
Taste the mixture of stormy blast beats with cinematic soundscapes and a healthy dose of Eastern Europe’s dark tales. Our latest works explore the fantasy world of Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher prose
Meet Our Team
We live thousands miles away from each other (Belarus, Russia, USA, China and Poland) and for years we've engaged together in our music passion online
  • Alexandr Cherepanov
    Vocals, Guitars, Sound Engineering
  • Alia Fay
    Ethnic Vocals, Flutes
  • Alyona Dubrovina
    Harmonica, Harp, Flutes, Bagpipe
  • Pavel Mikhalyov
    Lead Guitars
  • Sergey Shulzhenko
    Keys, Orchestration
  • Dzmitry Sarychau
    Guitars
  • Artyom Prishchepov
    Keys, Composing, Lyrics, Production
  • Yaroslav Korotkin
    Bass Guitar
licensed for free distribution

Evoking Winds Discography

Each album is available for lossless downloads and can also be found
on Spotify, Apple Music, Yandex Music and Youtube
#6 - SOMETHING ENDS, SOMETHING BEGINS

Your Rivers (2024)

"Something ends, something begins" - Andrzej Sapkowski

Your Rivers album tells the stories of the Witcher saga characters facing events incomparably bigger than them. The fatal choice, changing world, war conflicts, love and death - the breathing cycle of life. Often it’s ruthless and not caring to individual destinies, and yet it brings the sense to everything ever lasted.

Digital Release, 2024
#5 - TAKE A RIDE WITH THE WILD HUNT

Bald Mountain (2023)

Which of two merits more: freedom to be tempted or freedom to decide? Based on tales from several regions, the album tells us the story of a man captured by the Wild Hunt on one cold night.
The motives of Bald Mountain are central for many legends of Eastern Europe. Most of us who has ever read, seen or played anything related to "The Witcher" saga, knows who inhabits it. Come, a tempting yet dangerous journey awaits.

Digital Release, 2023
SINGLE -TRIBUTE TO THE WITCHER 3 OST

Kaer Morhen (2022)

This work is made by our band inspired by the original game soundtrack (by Marcin Przybyłowicz, Piotr Musiał, Mikołaj Stroiński and Percival Schuttenbach they wrote for Witcher 3).

Created and distributed for free as non-official fan art and with great respect and compliance to the Golden Rules set by the rights owners: cdprojektred.com/en/fan-content/

Non-commercial musical work. May not be sold or promoted unless this is done by CD PROJEKT S.A.

Digital Release, 2022

Heroes of Might and Magic (Metal Tribute) by Evoking Winds (2019), Metal Belarus
#4 -HEROES OF MIGHT AND MAGIC II & III

The Heroes: OST Tribute (2019)

Inspired by the music of Paul Anthony Romero with composer's permission.


The true brilliance of the series is the music. It influenced the Evoking Winds band much and this album is our tribute work to the Three Heroes of fantasy music: Paul Romero, Rob King, and Steve Baca. The monumental work "Heroes of Might and Magic III OST" had been released 20 years ago, and we played the beloved themes from HoMM3 and HoMM2 once again to celebrate the music we all grew on.


CD Release, 2019

Digital Re-issue, 2022

#3 - THE GREY AREA OF UNEVEN CHOICE

Conjunction of Spheres (2015)

Eventually, exploring fantasy worlds has led us to the main inspiration for our lyrics for further albums since 2014 and on we uncovered “The Witcher” saga by Andrzej Sapkowski. With the given world maturity and huge folklore background - we fell in love with the setting and started to carefully explore it. This is our first try at the setting: together with the listener, we moved towards the old age when the Conjunction of Spheres has occurred and there was just the beginning of the world we were told a lot later.

Besides the described setting, “Conjunction of Spheres” contains some philosophical thoughts on human beings standing in front of something bigger. The uneven choices we do, the outcomes we have, and the uncertainty about whether we need these results. This line correlates a lot with thoughts we find in “The Witcher”, and though the album doesn’t name any famous characters or names, our inspiration is clear here.


CD Release, 2015

Digital Re-issue, 2021

#2 - THE HUMAN PLACE IN NATURE

Silent Dawn (2013)

Luckily our homelands have tons of dark and authentic folklore stories you can be thrilled by nowadays. For our band, the second album “Silent Dawn” is the borderline between real-world and mystic ones: the more we explore music - the farther we wander away into fantasy worlds. Back to folklore roots, the album tells the dark and authentic tales we listen to as kids here in Eastern Europe. Its culture code reflects the way nature behaves where the land is covered with endless swamps and pre-historic woods.

CD Release, 2013
Digital Re-issue, 2021
#1 - ARCHAIC SONGS MEET METAL

Towards Homestead (2008)

As we originate from Eastern Europe, the folklore, tales, and legends widespread in our region have always been the inspiration for us. We started our music journey with folklore themes: ancient songs sung here in Belarus were the basis for our debut “Towards Homestead”. On the album we explored the sense of traditional songs with unexpected harmonies diving deeper into emotional tints.

CD Release, 2008
Digital Re-issue, 2021
DEMO - EARLY RECORDINGS 2005-2008

Pyl na našych ščakach

This compilation album is made of recordings we made as demos before our first conceptual album "Towards Homestead". It contains our first steps in black metal as well as acoustic folklore themes and orchestration. Later on, each of these elements became united in our main albums as the band's sound signature.

CD Release, 2008