Aghiatrias is so called "integrated music" a project of composer, instrumentalist & sound experimenter Vladimír Hirsch, with participation of Tom Saivon, started in 1999 as more abstract sprout of his martial-industrial band Skrol, stressing the work with rich arsenal of sound structures. It is based on grasping both ways in a manner dark industrial and dark ambient) v. (contemporary classical music . In autumn 1999 in Prague, Czechia, Vladimir Hirsch (composer, keyboards, samplers, drums, vocals, computer) and Tom Saivon (noise generator) joined their creative efforts in this project, which is a kind of extrapolation and the combination of contemporary classical music (Hirsch) and noise (Saivon) tendencies within Skrol, which was eventually, through mutual infiltration by basic theses and antitheses, brought to life as a fully homogeneous structure by both members of the group. After more than five years of existence, the band is widely known in the European industrial scene and regularly performing at prestigious European festivals. The ensemble regularly appeared in Poland, Slovakia, Netherlands and Germany, in Czechia it generally limited its performances to the regular Prague industrial festival. It has been on long and successful tour in the US in June 2001. After the tifth album "Reliquary" the band discontinued its activity in 2007, but after reformed again 2015. http://www.vladimirhirsch.com/e_Aghiatrias.html