Умер

yMep (russian Умер, pronounced like "oomer", means "died") was formed around 1997 as a side project by multi-instrumentalist Noviy (Михайло "Новый"). At first it was a college death metal cover band consisting of Noviy on rock guitar and back vocals, Давид (David) on drums, Peter (Питер) playing bass guitar and substituting on vocals, and "Tovarish Suhov" (товарищь Сухов, как в кино) playing microphone. The purpose was to excercise their multilingual skills learned at a local university. Soon all accessible material was exhausted and by 2001 Noviy made a move to all original compositions with purposely russian lyrics that signaled a more political direction instead of academic. New participants at that time included Yury Gödl355 (Юрий Безбожий) as the main russian-language vocalist and Emir Makov (Эмир Маков) as a session bassist and later a graphic artist.

To date yMep featured a variety of guest musicians in the studio. Besides leader Noviy, the main vocalist Yury Gödl355 has stayed close to the project through all recordings. Currently Noviy is busy at work making big money to finance a worldwide tour of anarcho-basement shows and disruption of establishment.

yMep releases: 2001 untitled CD and video for "poisoning at the ball" (отравление на балу). Participants: Noviy - guitars, drums, percussion, some bass, back vocals; Yury Gödl355 - lead growls; Tovarish Suhov - bass, back vocals; Emir Makov - bass guitar. Group shouts on "about love" (про любовь) were recorded with a bunch of friends during a drunken garage party. Graphics designs are a collaboration among group members. Video for "Poisoning" is a collaboration of even more friends, especially "MooreDick" and "Tovarish Suhov" (товaрищь Сухов) who owned video cameras and computers.

2002 "yMep-2" unreleased concert video from the USA mini-tour. It was shelved due to lack of computer processing power for editing. Technology is trickling down to this frozen desolation... Crew consisted of Noviy, Peter, Yury Gödl355 on vocals, Давид (David) the Drummer, and MooreDick the videographer.

2003 "yMep-3" mini-CD promo consisting of 2 new speed-death metal tracks and a hidden studio mash-up of sound clips from old movies. out of print and sold out. this was released as a mini-CD with no text whatsoever (only graphics) in oversized DVD cases with sleeve inserts. the DVD case contained the mini-CD as well as a standard CD. all graphics by Emir Makov.

2005-2007 untitled mini-CD, most often called "bones" (кости в траве) after the cover image. unofficially known as yMep-4 because it has 4 tracks and is a 4th (planned) release. brutal groove and death metal for your headbanging pleasure, as well as the best production to date.

all yMep releases are copyrighted for the label "© Excessive Use of the Force Records (say it fast to conserve lifetime)®", which is our connection to the USA scene. if only they'd pay us money instead of beef stew and inflatable camping mats.

Not to be confused with Aleksey Zaev's (Алексей Заев) ROCK band of the same name. Different area, different genre.