EPITIMIA was founded in January 2008 by Alexander Machtakov and Kirill ‘Nemez’. Their first song was created as an experiment with acoustic guitar, called “The moment of the final spring”. It was upon creating this song that they decided the depressive, metal melodies they induced were what they wanted to keep working with. "Epitimia (from Greek ἐπιτιμία - penance) is to be understood as an interdiction which, according to Church canons, the priest as a spiritual physician may apply in certain cases in order to treat the moral diseases of his spiritual children".

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