Twelve Limbs are:
Ben: Lead vocalist/keyboards Art: Guitarist/base player Roman: Drummer
….although the talented trio defy conventional instrumental parameters by switching instruments mid performance. When everyone can play everything, why stick to one thing. And that’s where 12Limbs stand-out from the crowd. Their pioneering ethos means they’re boundary-breaking. Expect the unexpected!

Ben and Roman were thrown together through fortuitous circumstances when they met at med school, training in dentistry in Chelyabinsk, the city made famous in 2015 for the meteorite explosion. The chemistry, both socially and musically, was instantaneous. Creating a band with a mixture of other university friends, they found a low level celebrity across their local town. Two of the band members later branched-out to become highly successful plastic surgeons, whilst the dentists stuck together as a smaller band unit.

The turning point came when Ben and Roman changed university, moving to Ekaterinburg to study for their final year. The move was life changing; lifestyle, relationships and opportunities suddenly opened up and they met their third band member, Art, whose link to a recording studio (where he was a sound engineer), was the open-door they needed. The band became a tight-knit unit, living, socialising and creating music together; literally in each other’s pockets, which saw their fantastic musical chemistry wonderfully explode. Working on their self-bought ,8-track unit, which was cutting edge back in the ‘90s, exposed unimaginable musical opportunities for the band. But it didn’t take long for the boys to realise that Russian wasn’t commercially viable in rock music, so they began writing English language songs. Recording in their self-made garage and performing gigs to friends, local small crowds and making money through local event bookings, the band began to cultivate and master their live performances.

Although a fully trained dentist, Ben couldn’t deny his musical passion, and decided to turn his back on dentistry. He eventually moved to Moscow to become an event manager, which allowed him the freedom and flexibility to create music and follow his heart with other musicians, bands and sounds. At this point, the band disbanded - Roman set up a dental clinic and wrote music during his spare time, whilst Art carried on with his sound engineering job.

In 2018, the stars aligned - Ben reunited the original band, brining Roman and Art over to Moscow to rekindle their original chemistry. Spark ignited, and a lifetime of maturity and experience under their belt, the boys began writing original material – and it sounded like audio nectar. The time was right to take their music onto a global platform, and for Autumn 2019, 12 Limbs export their unique sound to the UK with the release of their debut single, ‘Follow The Music’; a very apt title for the doctors who couldn’t resist the power of their passion. Welcome 12Limbs!