Zhenya Milkovskyi, frontman of the band NERVY, has released a massive conceptual album “Demo 2010–2026”” on his 35th birthday, featuring 59 demo recordings created over the past 16 years.

According to the artist, many of the tracks had been “sitting in a folder on his desktop” for years and might never have been officially released.

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“I uploaded an album where I collected nearly all my demos from 2010 to 2026. I recorded all these songs at home on my computer. They had been gathering dust in my drawer for years,” Milkovskyi shared.

The musician said he postponed releasing the material for a long time, hoping to eventually re-record the songs in higher quality or separate them into conceptual projects. However, he ultimately realized that the perfect moment might never come.

“The perfect moment is now,” he wrote.

The album includes home recordings, phone demos, musical experiments, English-language tracks, songs performed in an invented language, as well as compositions originally written for NERVY and other projects. Some original session files were lost after his old computer broke down, leaving only rough MP3 versions of certain tracks.

The release runs for 2 hours and 38 minutes and is now available on all major streaming platforms.

For the Eastern European rock and pop scene, a 59-track release from a major artist is a rare case, making “Demo 2010–2026” feel less like a traditional studio album and more like a complete archival document of an entire creative era.

In September, NERVY will embark on a major tour across the United States and Canada.