1997-2002
FHF (First Human Ferro), a Ukrainian dark ambient project organized by Olegh Kolyada back in summer 1998, with first field recordings being experienced yet in winter 1997. The debut raw experiments date back June-August 1998 when “The Halo over Pontiff’s Hearse” was recorded. A year later in 1999 FHF started musical manipulations with harsher sounds which resulted into “Metaballistik: Viewed under Infra-Red” session, known as Ukrainian exceptional death industrial material ever. Both above-mentioned albums were released on tapes and cd-rs several times in limited editions in Ukraine and Poland. In 2000 a classical dark ambient album “Motherwards” was recorded, issued a year later as the first professional cd release of the project. 2001 was marked by a progression of the project’s musical swings with its ultimate death industrial output “Ferrari” and “Numinosum” issued in a while by Polish and Ukrainian labels respectively. The same year Olegh Kolyada launched his apocalyptic ritual side-project In Meditarivm recording two albums within several years: “Les Fleurs du Mal” 2000-2001 and “Uterus” 2002 released in a limited cd-r format. A re-mixed collection of FHF’s first ambient sketches was released the same 2002 year by a Ukrainian label under the title “Greater than Temple” cd-r.
2003-2008
After a hiatus FHF returned in 2003 with its best known material “Guernica Macrocosmica” cd on Eibon Records, the album which is still considered as a milestone of nostalghic ambient music. That very year the FHF project was split into two identities: nostalghia (nostalghic shoegaze music) and realia (all dark ambient experiments). In 2005 two exclusive tracks for German Drone Records 7” series were recorded on behalf of In Meditarium project, issued a year later as “Mare Internum” vinyl recording. In late 2005 a Ukrainian OMS Records, based in Olegh’s native city Zhytomyr, released next FHF’s dark ambient material “Corona Astralis” cd. Joining forces with an Italian finest Eibon Records again in 2006 a brand-new harsh ambient album “Adamnation” cd was issued a year later. Finally in late 2007 Olegh Kolyada initiated and compiled an exclusive international collection of the best dark ambient tracks “Energia” by the finest musicians to commemorate a centenary of world’s greatest space engineer S.P.Korolyov (1907-1966), born in Zhytomyr city too. In late 2008 the project was invited to take part in another great compilation “Sacral Symphony” issued by a Belgian EETapes.
2009-2010
2009 was devoted to collecting Olegh Kolyada’s music never released, now being strictly-oriented: Ostarbeiter as a moniker for early death industrial & power electronics experiments, FHF as an electro-acoustic, radio-noise & dark ambient project, and In Meditarivm as an apocalyptic ritual one. The collection in question is entitled “Panoptikvm” and will be released as a series of several cds/lps. Panoptikvm series includes: In Meditarivm “The Great Limbo” and "Broken Urn", OSTARBEITER “The Iron Era”, and FHF “Homo Shargey” records. 16/05/2009 FHF first ever live, onstage together w/Deutsch Nepal, Noises of Russia, and Filivs Macrocosmi. A digital document about the event was released in February 2010 as v/a “Secret Assembly” DVD by Zhytomyr-based OMS Records. In March a Polish label Wrotycz Records released In Meditarivm "The Great Limbo" CD.
2011-2012
At the very dawn of 2011 a Polish New Nihilism label took care of another part of the Panoptikvm series "Homo Shargey" CD. At the beginning of the year FHF project got an offer from a Russian label Nitkie to release two albums: "Stardust" CD, featured by Claustrum, Louisa John-Krol, and Oda Relicta, released exclusively on April, the 12th as a tribute to the cosmic date, and "Prosa Profana" CD, Olegh Kolyada's collaboration with an Italian band Albireon, released in September 2011. 04/06/2011 FHF's 2nd live set, onstage together w/Troum, Cisfinitum, and a few other projects in Kyiv.
Originally planned to be released via French rip-offs Slaughter in Art in 2010, the memorial recording Ostarbeiter "The Iron Era" 2CD was co-released by Steinklang Industries with Old Captain on May, the 3rd, 2012. The most ambitious FHF's record, a collaborative work with Cisfinitum "Alchemicals" CD, was released by Old Captain on the 29th of December, 2012.
The Halo Over Pontiff's Hearse (Cass, Album, Ltd) Death Dance Production D.D.P.022 1999
The Halo Over Pontiff's Hearse (Cass, Album, Ltd, RE) OMS Records OMS 04 2000
The Halo Over Pontiff's Hearse (CDr, Album, Ltd, RE) Eldritch Music em007ee 2001Metaballistik: Viewed Under Infra-Red (Cass, Album, Ltd) OMS Records OMS 05 2000
Metaballistik: The Voyeur And His Infra-Red Insekts (CDr, Ltd) Soulworm Editions Worm IX 2001Ferrari (CDr) Soulworm Editions Worm XXVIII 2002
Motherwards (CD, Album, Ltd) Eldritch Music em011ee 2002
Numinosum (CDr, Mini, Ltd) OMS Records OMS-02-CDR 2002
Greater Than Temple (CDr, Album, Ltd, Num, RE, RM) OMS Records OMS-05-CDR 2003
Guernica Macrocosmica (CD, Album, Ltd) Eibon Records Fhf045 2003
Corona Astralis (CD, Album, Ltd) OMS Records OMSCD01 2005
First Human Ferro Feat. Kenji Siratori - Adamnation (CD, Album, Ltd) Eibon Records Fhf071 2007
Homo Shargey (CD, Album, Ltd) New Nihilism, Requiem Records, Triangle NN VII, RP 33/2011, TR 046 2011
Stardust (CD, Album, Ltd) Nitkie patch nine 2011
Cisfinitum & First Human Ferro - Alchemicals (3xFile, MP3 / FLAC, Album) Not On Label (Cisfinitum & First Human Ferro Self-released) none 2012
Cisfinitum & First Human Ferro - Alchemicals (CD, Album, Ltd) Old Captain OCCD06 2012Centrifuga (4xFile, FLAC / MP3, EP, 320) Not On Label none 2013
First Human Ferro / Ostarbeiter - Ego Vox (10xFile, FLAC / MP3, Album) Not On Label (First Human Ferro / Ostarbeiter Self-released) none 2015
First Human Ferro / Ostarbeiter - Ego Vox (CDr, Album, Ltd) Gradual Hate Records H.T.M.06 CD 2015First Human Ferro Feat. Albireon - Prosa Profana (12xFile, MP3, Album, S/Edition) Not On Label none 2015
Tracks appear in compilations
tr. Kostolomo
Various - Polyvox Populi (CDr, Comp, Ltd) Nexsound, Sale Records ns04, SALO 0006 2002
tr. Per Astra
Various - Энергия (CD, Comp, Ltd, Dig) OMS Records OMSCD03 2007
tr. Sacral Sin
Various - Sacral Symphony (CD, Comp, Ltd) EE Tapes EE14 2008
tr. Sphinx The Perched Part I
Various - 10 - Wheel Of Fortune (CDr, Mini, Comp) Invisible Eye Productions none 2009
tr. Astra Incognita
Various - Nonpop #3 (29xFile, MP3, Comp, 256) www.nonpop.de Nonpop #3 2009
tr. Untitled
Various - Secret Assembly (DVD-V, PAL, Ltd, 4:3) OMS Records OMSDVD01 2010
tr. Particles Of God
Various - Saur Maas / Auditory Dark Matter (72xFile, FLAC / MP3, Comp) Kalpamantra KM025 2011
tr. Windmill Cross
Various - Nonpop #4 (24xFile, MP3, 256 + 4xFile, MP3, 320 + File, MP3, ) www.nonpop.de Nonpop #4 2013
tr. The Visionary
Various - PL2UA (93xFile, MP3, Comp, 320) Not On Label none 2014
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