Great Sorrow was founded in the former Soviet Union, in 1990 by guitarist Andrey Lerman, where all talk of the West was taboo. The group wanted to show that there was something different in the world via music.
Based in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Great Sorrow released it’s first album consisting of heavy metal / doom style music in 1994. Like in America this was extremely popular among the teenagers. From 1995 to 1999, the band worked on modifying its style from heavy metal to hard rock, releasing three additional albums.

Alcohol being a key factor, the band dissolved in 2000. Like a phoenix, Great Sorrow raised and re-established it’s self in 2003. Always evolving, the newly formed band released the album, “Isgoy”, in 2004.