Great Sorrow was founded in 1990, in Leningrad by two close friends and troublemakers, Andrey Lerman and Mikhail Lind. After selecting an apocalyptical name, Great Sorrow, Andrey and Mikhail asked guitar player and vocalist Kirill Ulanenkov and bass player Sergey Utkin to join them. This was a short-lived arrangement. Bass player Nikita Parshikov, vocalist Aleksey Uvarov and drummer Victor Kuz’michev soon replaced the two.

July 1991 Great Sorrow recorded their first demo album, “Eternal Sorrow”. The beginning of the next year GS produced another demo album, “Condemned Cell”.

Outrageous performances and antics at concerts and festivals such as “Baltic Death Zone”, and many more brought Great Sorrow a reputation of boundless musicians. This was around the end of the USSR, and people were just learning about the west, rock music, and heavy metal. During this time musicians had to obtain Official Authorization to play because of censorship… …GS bent a few rules becoming one of the first heavy metal groups in the Soviet Union; soon to be Russia.

1993 Great Sorrow preformed at the “Death Rider Festival” where they signed a contract with record label “Final Holocaust”. “MAZE OF DOOM”, Great Sorrow's first album did exceptionally well. During this period guitar player Alexey Gorsky joined Great Sorrow.

1994 saw more successful record sales, concerts and festivals. A sudden “click” in Lerman’s head resulted in the removal of Kuz’michev, Uvarov, and Gorsky and the hiring of Roman Kiskin and Alexey Skavronskiy. With new band members GS started work on their new album.

With constant partying and happiness, Great Sorrow changed from a doom / thrash style to a heavy metal / rock sound. The new sound was reflected in “DREAMS... SOLITUDE, SILENCE”, released by “Petromix” of Saint Petersburg in 1995.

With a new sound Great Sorrow toured many cities within Russia, the Ukraine, and Byelorussia where they were very welcomed. During the tour band members were drinking a lot of vodka, Gorilka, and other ethnic sprits. Again, in 1997 something “clicked” in Lerman’s head resulting in Skavronskiy and Parshikov being let go and the hiring of Yevgeny Trofimov and Roman Farafontov. The year ended with the release of “I HOPE” by “MetalAgen”.

1998 saw Great Sorrow play support for Paradise Lost at “Metal Agen Fest 98”. Additionally they worked on their new album, and preparation for a tour in Germany.

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Alcohol being a key factor, the band dissolved in 2000. Like a phoenix, Great Sorrow raised and re-established it’s self in 2003. Always evolving, the newly formed band released the album, “Isgoy”, in 2004.

Believing in humanity and one world, Great Sorrow played in Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 1st, with the intent of donating all proceeds to the American Red Cross for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Like the old USSR, the Russian Federation has many restrictions; the police confiscated the donation box. All is not lost for the Great Sorrow will donate all profits from there yet to be released song “Flames in the Dark” to the Red Cross.

Great Sorrow has both English and Russian lyrics that we are sure you will enjoy.