Lately Kiev has given the country a large number of professional rock bands, but the first swallow of the Kiev invasion became the group EDEM. For several years, without advertising, recordings, and with a minimum number of concerts it has achieved significant popularity in the circles of the metal underground.
EDEM was established in 1983, and the next three years, musicians huddled in basements zhekovskim, playing ever more rapid and more dense heavy rock. And so they got to the trash and it seems to have stopped.
Breakthrough came in 1986 at the Festival debut-86 ", which is organized by the editors of the Kiev newspaper" Young Guard ". For information about Eden got even in the "New Musical Express. By the autumn of 1986 the team has changed. In place of guitarist Vladimir Statsenko took Igor Shilin from Titanic. At the end of the year gone another veteran of Eden - guitarist Fedoratenko. He formed a group of the Academy, which collapsed after the first presentation, and then moved to the lost world. In his place taken by Vadim Ververskogo. In addition to these musicians in Eden from the beginning included a bassist, vocalist and drummer Victor Lukyanov Semen Rimar.
At home in Kiev, the group has cult status. In October 1988, EDEM has recorded his first album in English, called "Time of madness." But the more successful one was 1989 - the band played in Poland at "Metallomanii", recorded their second album, "Calvary" and a lot advocated. According to the poll of the Ukrainian youth newspaper "Young Guard" EDEM hit the top twenty groups in the country, and Igor Shilin hit the Top 20 best composers

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