Avs_Silvester has been played on NTS shows including Andras , with Palestinian Koala first played on 7 November 2023.

Avs_Silvester is one-man-band of Andrey Skorobogatov works in experimental metal, post-rock, avant-gard fusion, ambient and other genres.

Andrey (Andrew) Valerievich Skorobogatov, b.1987 in Sverdlovsk, USSR (now Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation). Andrew is It-spetialist, writer, author of cyberpunk, surreal and dystopic short stories and novellines, member of russian sci-fi fandom moviement. "AvsSilvester" began as LJ nickname: "AVS" is initials and "Silvester" as derived from "sylvan" or "silver". Music theory had learned in a secondary school, in a class with a musical bias, and first lo-fi ambient/psychedelic tracks were recorded in 2001-2002 years. First full-length album "Black Thursday" was recorded in 2011. Some small improvised EP-s made in style that named "yozh-metal" (hedgehog metal) - it's polyphonic/cacaphonic lo-fi rock/fusion expromts with harmonica, tambourine and mandolina. At the moment in 2014 Andrew had recorded over twenty albums and EP. Almost all works of AvsSilvester available online on free resources and net-labels, the total number of downloads of some of them more than 10000. Andrew calls groups and musicians inspires creativity is Pink Floyd, Magma, Dream Theater, Cynic, Sergey Kuryokhin and Gorizont.