In short: you acquire Soviet guitars, tune them to the Russian seven‑string tuning, take traditional Russian folk music dug up by ethnographers in remote villages, and transpose it into harsh, angular yet melodic guitar riffs played exclusively with tremolo to create a kind of overdriven hurdy‑gurdy sound, though occasionally fingerpicked for lyrical detours. You add ancient Russian folk instruments (violin, gudok, hurdy‑gurdy, gusli, etc.) and combine them with the composed music. The drums have lots of blasts and broken patterns so they wail like little bells :)For vocals — one roaring as if an unclean force is telling tales, the other clean, preferably female, like a bird of paradise. The lyrics are tales of various magic: about unclean forces, some cheerful, bylinas, a continuation of the storyteller and skomorokh tradition. That is the general recipe of cherniy gudok.nd it’s not only about music — cherny gudok is a new youth subculture characterized by people who are into Old Russian ethnography; above all they love reading fairy tales, dressing as characters from them, watching Soviet‑era film adaptations of Russian folk tales instead of shitty anime, and of course listening to bands in the cherny gudok genre and attending their performances! Cherny‑gudok followers typically want to move to remote villages away from civilization and restore old ways of life, abandoned village houses, and eat ancestral foods prepared according to old recipes."Black gudok" means black sound, i.e. powerful, assertive, thunderous, buzzing, screaming about various tall tales and the otherworld; but unlike black metal it ridicules evil — cherny gudok followers reach toward the light, not the dark! In their tales good always defeats the unclean — we are skomorokhs! The funnier, the better!Check band Pꙋчєєкъhttps://youtu.be/WrV9T6lPV9k?si=LV6IPs56mHMseTbP
