And the two bands had a sideproject called Old Silver Key! The difference is Neige from Alcest is tapped into the western media ecosystem and so he had to make a few groveling apologies for Peste Noire whereas Roman Saenko from Drudkh never had to apologize for Hate Forest and even brought the project name back because he's ultimately just a Ukrainian and western cultural pressure still doesn't penetrate that far.
And the two bands had a sideproject called Old Silver Key! The difference is Neige from Alcest is tapped into the western media ecosystem and so he had to make a few groveling apologies for Peste Noire whereas Roman Saenko from Drudkh never had to apologize for Hate Forest and even brought the project name back because he's ultimately just a Ukrainian and western cultural pressure still doesn't penetrate that far.