Black River is a Polish
stoner rock
Stoner rock, also known as stoner metal or stoner doom, is a rock music fusion genre that combines elements of doom metal with psychedelic rock and acid rock. The genre emerged during the early 1990s and was pioneered foremost by Kyuss and Sleep. ...
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heavy metal band. They were formed in 2008 by
Tomasz Wróblewski
Tomasz Wróblewski (born 2 June 1980), stage name Orion, is a Polish extreme metal musician, best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for black-death metal band Behemoth. Since 1997, he also is a member of symphonic black metal band Vesan ...
(bass),
Dariusz Brzozowski
Dariusz "Daray" Brzozowski (born 30 January 1980), is a Polish Heavy metal music, heavy metal drummer. Brzozowski has played with such bands as Vader (band), Vader, Black River (band), Black River, Michał Jelonek, Jelonek, Armagedon, Arysta, Az ...
(drums), Piotr "Kay" Wtulich (guitar), Artur "Art." Kempa (guitar), and Maciej Taff (vocals).
In 2009, the band was nominated to
Fryderyk
The Fryderyk is the annual award in Polish music. Its name refers to the original Polish spelling variant of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin's first name. Its status in the Polish public can be compared to the American Grammy and the UK's BRI ...
, an annual award in Polish music.
According to an interview on 9 February 2014, Wróblewski revealed the band's hiatus since 2010 was permanent due to problems with vocalist Taff's health.
However, on 16 July 2018, it was announced the band had reunited and was in the studio recording their upcoming third album, due in 2019. The band released ''Humanoid'' on 12 April 2019.
On 2 June 2022, the band announced their new album, ''Generation aXe'', would be released on 24 June.
Discography
Studio albums
Compilation albums
Music videos
References
External links
Black River official website
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Polish musical groups
Polish heavy metal musical groups
Polish stoner rock musical groups
Musical groups established in 2008
Mystic Production artists
Musical quintets