Ukrainian Electro-Gothic Rockers Metameria Announce Third Full-Length Album: First Single Out Now
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Ukrainian electro-gothic rockers Metameria are set to release their third full-length album, Electro Romantica, on April 24. The album is a deeply personal reflection on the challenges of recent years, blending the dark intensity of their earlier work with new emotional depth. Its lyrics confront human suffering, uncertainty, and the ways in which the war has reshaped everyday life.
The band comments on the track: “Хворі Уяви (Khvori Uiavy)” is one of the first singles from our forthcoming third album. It is a reflection on the trials we were forced to endure, and on how the war irreversibly reshaped our lives, our reality, and the way we see the world."
On the album as a whole, the band explains: Electro Romantica is our long-awaited third album. The first was released in 2016, the second in 2020 — and only now, after many years, the third has finally come into being.
This record began its life back in those distant days when our debut album "Minuty Sochteny" was first released.
From that moment onward, its sound and atmosphere were slowly forming — and in Electro Romantica the darkest and most fragile ideas of our first two albums are gathered, reimagined, and deepened.
Its lyrics are steeped in the sorrow of war, in human suffering, and in the uncertainty that has become part of our everyday existence. Yet despite this weight, the album remains remarkably diverse: each composition follows its own path, while together they weave a single emotional fabric — dark, delicate, and piercing.
For the first time in the history of Metameria, all lyrics on this album are written in Ukrainian — as the inner voice of our time, as a necessary and honest testimony of the era. This is also the first album the band’s history that Ihor recorded almost entirely on his own, investing in it not only sound, but years of personal journey.
Electro Romantica is the result of several years of work, gathered between cities and countries: accumulated in Ukraine, in the Odesa studio throughout 2023–2024; shaped in Spain, in the city of A Coruña, where it was mixed and mastered in 2025; and finally completed in the United Kingdom, in Eastbourne — the city where this story found its voice.
Tracklist: 1. Metarealist 2. Transformatsiia Idealiv 3. Khvori Uiavy 4. Vendetta 5. Strashni Pisni 6. Shchos Ne Tak 7. Modnyi Klub 8. Sira Nostalhiia 9. Totalitarnyi Morok 10. Dva Zhyttia (Instrumental Remix)
Line up: Ihor Salivanov — vocals, guitars, bass music: drum programming, keyboard creation and animation, arrangement Artemio Matiovka — mixing & mastering, drum arrangement and enhancement, keyboard enhancement, recording of one guitar solo Max Ostapuk — assistance with instrument recording Alexey Chernov — album & single artwork, and friendly support Vladimir Kondratyev — video editing
Metameria is a Ukrainian electro gothic rock band, founded on October 1, 2015, in the city of Kherson, at the initiative of Ihor Salivanov — vocalist, guitarist, and the author of the band’s music and lyrics.
At the very origins of the band stood his wife, Angie Salivanova, who first joined as a keyboardist and later spent several years as the band’s bassist and backing vocalist, becoming an essential part of Metameria’s early sound and identity.
Over ten years of existence, Metameria has released three full-length albums, performed numerous concerts in their hometown of Kherson, and toured extensively across the country.
In early 2025, due to Ihor’s migration to the United Kingdom, the band transitioned into a temporary — and possibly permanent — studio project format. This was the context in which Electro Romantica was created.
