The band had name «Vortex» until November 2002. It performs Power-Heavy-Speed metal with both English and Russian texts.
The band's name was changed in November 2002 for «Arida Vortex» under which the band has been performing afterwards. The first album "Evil Sorcery" was released on CD-Maximum in spring 2003 and this album was commonly considered as one of the best Russian releases of 2003 in this genre.
The band started working on the second album in 2004 both performing live gigs and recording at the same time. In early 2006 the album was completed. It was released in May under the title "Flames of Sunset" on CD-Maximum.
The musicians started composing music for the next album in August 2006. They kept on performing and participated in annual Moscow RAGE CONVENTION with Viktor Smolsky and Peter Vagner as special guests.
The third album «Invisible Tension» turned out on September 30, 2011 .
The band presented their fourth album "Аве Рок" (Hail to Rock) on May 31, 2013. The album texts were written in Russian to express gratitude to Russian fans. The English version of this album was released at 2014 with some new songs in it.
The latest LP release named “The Illustrated Man” was out in 2015 and its texts conceptually based on books of American sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury.
During its history Arida Vortex shared stage with Rage, Scanner, Dark Moor, Battle Beast, Seraphim, Sinergy, Kamelot and other bands.
Currently our band has recorded seven studio albums. The seventh album “Wild Beast Show” is recorded and ready to be released.

Arida Vortex members are also involved as guest musicians in: Fosces United, Epidemia, Shattered Destiny.

There are also two official videos for our songs "Reborn" and “Abyss”

Contacts
manager@aridavortex.ru
roman.guryev@gmail.com
gorgoth1@yandex.ru
andy@aridavortex.ru
Web Page
http://aridavortex.ru/
https://myspace.com/aridavortex