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Sam Tchortov is a 30-year-old Russian American musician originally from the bay area who currently resides in North Hollywood, California where he goes under the stage name Morningstvr.  He produces and performs music under the subgenre, Synth-Based Black Metal.  He cites Xasthur, DarkThrone, Hekseblad, & Axius Link as his key influences and coined the term Synth-Based Black Metal to describe his music.  Some sub-influences would be Thy Light, NordicWinter, Soulless, Caladan Brood, Luna Pythonissan and Nocturnal Depression.  Throughout his almost six-year long career, he has worked with a handful of unique artists and groups such as Opium Golem, KsureN, Son ov Leviathan, Dearly Departed, Satin Puppets, and many more.  Some groups/collectives he has worked with are Blvck Mass, Blvckmovth, Obscurum, and Blvsphemy Records.  With Morningstvr being almost six years old as a musical project, he has taken part in other past projects before such as Samvel, The Dank Knight, & Siren’s Bane.  All this has been part of his journey as a musician, but it all started at the age of ten years old when he wrote his first song, and he knew then that music was a career path he wanted to have.  In high school, he was heavily inspired by the underground European depressive metal bands such as Lethian dreams and Katatonia, thus his first band, Siren’s bane was formed and lasted from 2011-2018.  After some thought, Morningstvr had decided to go solo and founded his first solo project, The Dank Knight, a short-lived dark electro project.  Later reorganizing it into Morningstvr on February 22nd, 2019.  Since then, he has only had one other project, a vocal project called Samvel where he experimented with a depressive witch house style music until 2022 when the project was abandoned.  To this day, Morningstvr is the sole project and has withstood the test of time.  With his inspirations from different bands and artists, Morningstvr is also heavily inspired by the medieval period, certain historical events, horror movies such as Begotten, Nosferatu, Dracula; outside of horror, he’s been influenced by JRR Tolkien and the film adaptations portraying his works.