Morna (band)

Morna

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 (2010)–present
Website morna.sk
Members
  • Michal Vlkovic
  • Robert Ruman
  • Tomas Cvecka
  • Jakub Filip

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, the last missing person, joined Morna as a full-time bass guitarist. In May 2013 the band has released studio album, debut called A Tale Of Woe. Morna is mainly distinctive for its ability to combine varied kind of 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.

In February 2014, the debut album A Tale Of Woe was nominated in category Hard and Heavy for Record of the year of 2013 in Radio Head Awards.[1]

In May 2015 the band announced it is gearing up for recording the 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 posted an announcement about the title of the album via its official Facebook page. This album is called Nuisance.[3] Track listing of Nuisance came in the same month as another revealing fact the band has announced to its followers.[4]

With the second full-length studio album, Morna had a nomination[5] in Radio Head Awards 2015 for the Record of the Year. The band has won the award for its work on Nuisance (2015), in category Hard & Heavy.[6] To this date, Morna has been nominated second time in a row for this award and this is its first win. Radio_Head Awards ceremony took place at Stara trznica in Bratislava, on 13th of march of 2016.

Discography

Studio albums

Awards and nominations

Radio Head Awards

Year Nominee/work Award Result
2014 A Tale of Woe Best Hard & Heavy Record[7] Nominated
2016 Nuisance Best Hard & Heavy Record[8] Won

References

  1. ↑ "Nominees on Radio_Head Awards 2013". Radiohlavy.sk. February 3, 2014. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Morna announces new album recording". Official YouTube channel of Morna. May 18, 2015. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Morna announces the title of new album". Official Facebook page of Morna. November 13, 2015. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Revealing the tracklisting of Nuisance". Official Facebook page of Morna. November 24, 2015. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Nominees on Radio_Head Awards 2015". Radiohlavy.sk. February 15, 2016. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Winners of the Radio_Head Awards 2015". Radiohlavy.sk. March 13, 2016. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Nominees of the Radio_Head Awards 2013'". Radiohlavy.sk. March 2, 2014. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Winners of the Radio_Head Awards 2015'". Radiohlavy.sk. March 13, 2016. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
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