Aug. 10, 2026
Ka'aper’s Bloodstock Journey: From Russia to Cyprus and the World of Dark Metal
In this episode, Pipeman sits down with members of the Cypriot metal band Ka'aper at the Bloodstock Festival. Together, they explore the band’s journey from Russia to Cyprus, their musical influences, experiences in the tight-knit Cyprus metal community, and their unique blend of atmospheric, melodic, and dark metal inspired by ancient Egyptian mythology.Main Topics Covered
- Ka'aper’s Origins: How the band members emigrated from Russia to Cyprus and discovered a thriving local metal scene.
- Experience at Bloodstock Festival: Reflections on performing and representing Cyprus at one of Europe's premier metal festivals.
- Musical Evolution and Influences: Personal stories about early inspiration, detours in artistic pursuits, and the bands and genres that shaped their sound.
- Band’s Ethos and Message: Why being authentic and enjoying the process is central to success.
- Community and Collaboration: Insights into the supportive metal scene on Cyprus and how it brings musicians together.
- How to Connect with Ka'aper: Ways fans can support and follow the band online.
- The band members moved from Russia to Cyprus and were surprised by the vibrant and strong metal community they found 00:40.
- Some members have embraced Cyprus as home, even attaining Cypriot citizenship 01:37.
- Ka'aper talked about their journey to the Bloodstock festival, including competing the previous year and missing the final spot to close friends, only to qualify the following year 01:51.
- “Speaking Whispers” were mentioned as friends and last year’s Cyprus representatives 02:13.
- Emphasis on the importance of being themselves and enjoying the festival experience 02:38.
- Alex shared his early love for music, inspired by his sister introducing him to Queen and Aerosmith, and his circuitous path from drawing back to guitar and metal 03:09.
- Other members discussed starting on instruments like bass after discovering bands such as System of a Down, and guidance from musical family members 05:17, 06:40.
- The local metal community is described as friendly and deeply interconnected through social chats and jam sessions 07:06.
- Performing at Bloodstock is described as a “dream come true” and an exciting, welcoming experience 05:55, 07:26.
- Ka'aper plays heavy atmospheric and melodic metal rooted in ancient Egyptian mythology and history 07:50.
- The band encourages listeners to enjoy music for its own sake and “safe fucking metal” 08:51.
- “Our friends told us to be ourselves, to enjoy the fest in general, and yeah, probably they are right.” — Alex 02:38
- “Since then…I want to perform, I want to play music.” — Alex on childhood aspirations 03:24
- “We play very heavy atmospheric and melodic metal based on ancient Egyptian mythology and history.” — Alex 07:52
- “Listen to good music, listen to metal. Safe fucking metal.” — Alex 08:51
- “You can say whatever the fuck you want.” — Pipeman 08:59
- Ka'aper on Instagram:
Find and follow the band for updates and merch at Copper Official (Instagram handle shared at 08:42). - Merchandise:
Listeners are encouraged to check out and buy the band’s shirts 08:25.
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Hi you then you censure for see wow, crazy young.
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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
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This is Siger. This is Alex wea kapper.
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Nice here at Bloodstock. Oh my god, Like I think
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Cypress is like invading Bloodstock. It's like all the Cypress
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bands are here at Bloodstock. You guys must be really
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good musicians.
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We have many, many more amazing bands on on on
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the island. Actually we are originally we are not from Cyprus.
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We moved there from Russia and we were surprised how
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many amazing strongest bands we have on the islands. It's
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South Setting.
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And you know what, You're the second band that I've
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talked to that did the exact same thing. They left
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Russia went to Cypress and really, yeah, I don't I
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can't remember which one was Consults spinning in my head
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all right, I had the same thing, and I'm like, well,
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that's pretty cool, you know, so tell me about the
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music scene in Cypress. As the fact of that you
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came from somewhere else, you weren't even from there. What's
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the what how you feel about do you like feel
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like you're at home.
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There completely completely. For example, me, I got super old citizenship,
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so now I'm a super nice yeah, and so so.
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Tell me about your journey to Bloodstock.
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It was cool, it was amazing. Uh we had our
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competed last year and we got to the finals. But
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speaking whispers, our good friends.
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I love them, were.
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Really good that time and they came here last year
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to represent Cyprus. Now this year, probably we were better
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than others and we're here. We're really happy with that.
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I love it. Do you contribute to the fact that
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they gave you, like some tips to change and then
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you modified this year from what you did last year?
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Not really, They just told our friends, told us to
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be ourselves, to enjoy the first in general, and yeah,
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probably they are right, okay kind of.
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Well that's it. You gotta enjoy yourself, like otherwise why
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do this? You're not having fun?
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Right completely?
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Yeah?
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All right?
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So what was that moment in time that you knew
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music was what you wanted to do?
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Oh? Since our childhood it was like I have a
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sister who showed me Queen and Ironsmiths when I was
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maybe three years old, and since then then I decided, Yeah, yeah,
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I want to perform. I want to play music. And
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then for some reason I lost the dream to become
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a musician and for a long time, for maybe ten
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or more, and I started playing guitar only when I
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was sixteen. So the dream was really kind of splited parts.
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Nice, But what made you go away from it? And
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what made you go back to it?
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Sorry?
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What made you stop and what made you start again?
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I stopped because for the I thought I was better
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in drawing, and I went with my completely into drawing.
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And then I started listening to more having having music
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like I found out for example, Moon Spell, Tiamatt, Caltonia,
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stuff like that, do me stuff might I and Bright
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of course Paradise Lost that bands and I thought, wow,
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that's that's the music I want to play. And we
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started from that and now we are playing like kind
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of more more dead and stuff. We started from melodic
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death and now we added some dark stuff in it
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and we call it dark metal.
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Nice. I love it. Does he want to add to this?
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Tell me a little bit about how you got into music?
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Was when I was a student, I started playing bass.
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Uh when I heard the like system of a down,
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don't I realized that, Wow, the bassis, this the death
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instrument with which I wanted to want to which I
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want to play. So yeah, I started. Then I met
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your gay and we played in the one band we
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were playing do metal. Later, when we both came to Cyprus,
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we started a new bands. Yeah copper Okay, yeah, yeah nice?
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And so what do you think about being here at Bloodstock?
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That's great, it's perfect at least, like dream come.
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True, right right, And it's it's a family here. This
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is like the ultimate festival because it's just one big
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metal family.
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Yeah, old people so gently.
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Yeah, So let's let him say in your language and
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maybe translate to him what he should talk about.
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Actually, his English is pretty good.
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He was trying to avoid. Huh. Tell me a little
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bit about how your journey and music started. What for?
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What first got you into music? And how did it
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lead to where we are today.
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It's very easy. Yeah, my father was a musician. Actually,
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he showed me how to play drums, how to play in.
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That's it nice?
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Love it a love the didents actually.
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And how young were you when you first started playing drums?
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I think it was nine.
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Nice, and so how how did you all get together?
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We have a very great and nice community on cypress.
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We have all these chats, you know.
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Yeah, and that's.
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Like we meet each other just simply to play some jamsen,
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that's it.
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And how you feel being here at Bloodstock today? Sit?
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It's awesome. It's a first festival that I saw.
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Really yeah, so and actually I don't know what to say.
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I really like it's awesome. Yeah, too exciting.
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Okay, so come on back here this way here again.
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What do you want the listeners to know about your band?
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Well? Oh yeah, Copper we are from Cyprus. We play
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very heavy, atmospheric and melodic metal based on ancient Egyptian
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mythology and history. Uh so, and this year we're participating
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at Bloodstock. I know.
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How amazing is that? Right?
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Yes? Yeah?
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So tell your and tell my listeners how they can
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connect with you guys on socials on the web. By
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your merch you can't listen to my show, and let's say,
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buy your merch and you do have cool shirts.
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Yeah, So it's better to find us on Instagram because
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that's the we do the most attention to Instagram at
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the moment. It's Copper Official. Find us there, all right?
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Any final words, any of you want to give to
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the listeners.
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Oh, listen to good music, listen to metal. Yeah, stay fucking.
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Metal, and say whatever the fuck you want.
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All right, that's great, that's great. So and to see
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you in front of the stage, guys, see you.
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Thank you for being here at blood Sock and thanks
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for being any ventures.
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Thank you for your interest, sir, thanks a lot.
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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Tateman. I'm
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