Morna (band)

Morna is a Slovak progressive death metal band founded in 2010 by Michal Vlkovic, Jakub Filip and Robert Ruman. In summer of 2011, Tomas Cvecka, the last missing person, joined Morna as a full-time bass guitarist. In May 2013 the band released their debut studio album, A Tale of Woe. Morna is mainly distinctive for its ability to combine varied kind of elements and influences such as melodiousness, progressivity, use of acoustic guitar parts and heavy riffs, death growls and clean vocals and classical hard rock, progressive rock and blues influences.

Morna
Official photo of a band, 2015. From left to right: Michal Vlkovic, Jakub Filip, Tomas Cvecka and Robert Ruman.
Background information
Origin	Nova Dubnica, Slovakia
Genres	Progressive death metal, melodic death metal
Years active	2010 (2010)–present
Members	Michal Vlkovic Robert Ruman Tomas Cvecka Jakub Filip
Website	morna.sk

In February 2014, A Tale of Woe was nominated in the category of Hard & Heavy for Record of the year of 2013 in Radio Head Awards.[1]

In May 2015 the band announced it is gearing up for recording the second full-length studio album.[2] Recording started in July 2015 and continued to the end of November at the same year. In the same month, on 13 November, Morna posted an announcement about the title of the album via its official Facebook page. This album is called Nuisance.[3] Track listing of Nuisance came in the same month as another revealing fact the band has announced to its followers.[4]

With the second full-length studio album, Morna had a nomination[5] in Radio Head Awards 2015 for the Record of the Year. The band has won the award for its work on Nuisance (2015), in the category Hard & Heavy.[6] To this date, Morna has been nominated second time in a row for this award and this is its first win. Radio_Head Awards ceremony took place at Stara trznica in Bratislava, on 13 March 2016.