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Valery Kipelov was born in 1958, and has been the frontman of russian heavy metal legend Aria for seventeen years. Also, in 1997 he and Sergey Mavrin recorded duet album "Dark Ages", that included super-hit "Ya Svoboden" ("I Am Free"). In 2002 scandal divided Aria to halfs. Kipelov, Terentyev and Maniakin, joined by Sergey Mavrin, started their new band, entitled in honour of their leader. They played songs from "Dark Ages" and those of Aria's songs that was written by some of them. In 2003 Terentiev left the band to start his own project Arteria. A short while later Kipelov...

In 1997 Valery Kipelov and Sergey Mavrin, members of russian heavy metal band Ария, released their duet sideproject album Смутное Время (Time of Troubles), which, among other songs, included the famous ballad "Ya Svoboden (I am Free). .

Sergey Konstantinovich Mavrin (Сергей Константинович Маврин), nicknamed 'Mavrick' (Маврик) (born February 28, 1963) is a Russian musician and composer, who is credited as one of the best guitarists of Russian metal scene. His music style combines heavy metal, progressive metal and hard rock, and often dubbed "MavRock". Sergey had been a member of Aria, Kipelov, Chorny Kofe, Metallachord and Nazad v Budusheye, and founded a band 'Mavrik' (not to be confused with Maverick), though it is considered Mavrin's solo project since its latest albums are released with "Sergey Mavrin", not "Mavrik" title on the covers. Since 2000, Sergey has his...