This rock band is called "RVANA SHMATA", which means “Torn Rag” if you translate it from Ukrainian. 
And we are the first ever music band who decided to connect all of our music videos into the single story. that is why we call them - the EPISODES. You may check the videos here: youtube.com/RVANASHMATA
There are only two members in the band: 
Max Prudeus plays bass guitar, keys and sings lead vocals, 
and Andrew Zakharin - he plays drums and he is a backing vocalist.
"Well Hello" is our first single, first song we have published.
The title of the song was chosen by our Facebook subscribers here: fb.com/RVANASHMATA
Check out the song and the video and remember to show us to your friends if you've loved what we do!

RVANA SHMATA

Well Hello (single, 2019)

The band is called RVANA SHMATA, which means “Torn Rag” if you translate it from Ukrainian. 
And they are the first ever music band who decided to connect all of their music videos into the single story. That is why they call all of their videos - the EPISODES.
It may seem rather unusual, because modern music requests the utmost simplicity in everything. But RVANA SHMATA decided to create some kind of series, so it has to become more and more interesting.
All the events of the story take place in the fictional city of SHMATVILLE.
On October 29, 2019 they showed “Episode 1”, that was actually the Breaking News. It was a teaser to their first music video. A news presenter announced that two famous musicians had been kidnapped.
Follow this link to watch the EPISODE 1 - https://youtu.be/ofjJtgpxy2g
And on the 5th of November, 2019 the band released the “Episode 2” - actually their first Official Music Video. It showed how Max and Andrew had been kidnapped by a girl.
Follow this link to watch the EPISODE 2 - https://youtu.be/QNnTLvQWZ6M
In this video we saw band’s frontman Max Prudeus playing bass guitar, singing lead vocals and playing keyboards. Sometimes he manages to do all these things at the same time.
Max's vocals may remind you on Marilyn Manson or Ozzy Osbourne, but he definitely has his own voice charisma. His bass guitar is overloaded with some kind of fuzz or distortion and it sounds all rocky and massive.
Andrew Zakharin, the other member of the band, plays drums and sings backing vocals. These two Ukrainian musicians have been able to create a complete rocky sound, so you do not want to add another instrument into the arrangement. 
Their first song sounded a bit dirty, as if you were listening to a live performance of a post-grunge band, apparently they were trying to keep away from too much of a pop-rock. And you may say that RVANA SHMATA has found their own unique sound.
Their first song was recorded and produced by the band members at their own recording studio “Audiapolis”. It is called “Well Hello”, and that is a bit funny, because the name was chosen by their Facebook subscribers,
Max Prudeus himself has written and directed both two episodes by RVANA SHMATA.
"I have no ambitions as a writer or a director. Yes, I can do it well, but music always comes first. Andrew and I decided to do almost everything by ourselves. We did what we liked and tried to avoid the comments of others," Max Prudeus commented on the video.
Almost the entire process of producing the video was put on the shoulders of musicians. They’ve searched for locations, actors, wrote the script, did the editing. And this is the rare case when the music and the video benefited from it. 
"I spent a lot of time searching for the main actress for this video, and I think that we were very lucky to find Julia. She coped with the tasks  perfectly well, and of course her special appearance added some mysticism to our work," said Andrew Zakharin.
There is a final scene after the credits at the end of the “EPISODE 2”. It may lead us to events that will follow in the band's next videos.

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