Morna is a Slovak progressive death metal band founded in 2010 by Michal Vlkovic, Jakub Filip and Robert Ruman. In summer of 2011, Tomas Cvecka joined Morna as a full-time bass guitarist. Morna is distinctive for their ability to combine many stylistic elements and influences such as melodiousness, progressivity, use of acoustic guitar parts and heavy riffs, death growls and clean vocals and classical hard rock, progressive rock and blues influences.
Morna | |
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.jpg) Official photo of a band, 2015. From left to right: Michal Vlkovic, Jakub Filip, Tomas Cvecka and Robert Ruman. | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Nova Dubnica, Slovakia |
| Genres | Progressive death metal, melodic death metal |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Members |
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| Website | morna |
In May 2013 the band released their debut studio album, A Tale of Woe. In February 2014, it was nominated in the category of Hard & Heavy for Record of the year of 2013 by Radio Head Awards.[1]
In May 2015 the band announced they were gearing up to record their second full-length studio album.[2] Recording started in July 2015 and continued to the end of November at the same year. In the same month, on 13 November, Morna announced the new album would be called Nuisance.[3] An announcement of the track listing soon followed.[4] Nuisance was nominated by Radio Head Awards 2015 for the Record of the Year.[5] It won the award for the album in the category Hard & Heavy.[6]
Discography edit
- A Tale of Woe (2013)
- Nuisance (2015)
Awards and nominations edit
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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| 2014 | A Tale of Woe | Best Hard & Heavy Record[7] | Nominated |
| 2016 | Nuisance | Best Hard & Heavy Record[8] | Won |
References edit
- ^ "Nominees on Radio_Head Awards 2013". Radiohlavy.sk. 3 February 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^ "Morna announces new album recording". Official YouTube channel of Morna. 18 May 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
- ^ "Morna announces the title of new album". Official Facebook page of Morna. 13 November 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
- ^ "Revealing the tracklisting of Nuisance". Official Facebook page of Morna. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
- ^ "Nominees on Radio_Head Awards 2015". Radiohlavy.sk. 15 February 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ "Winners of the Radio_Head Awards 2015". Radiohlavy.sk. 13 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ "Nominees of the Radio_Head Awards 2013'". Radiohlavy.sk. 2 March 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^ "Winners of the Radio_Head Awards 2015'". Radiohlavy.sk. 13 March 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
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