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Zaraza is an experimental industrial doom death metal from Canada.

Biography

Formed within Montreal, Canada in early 1993, ZarazA was born away from a meeting between recently arrived Polish immigrant Jacek (The DoomHammer) & local Montreal industrial noise creative person Grzegorz Haus orange group Doomsday. It was created to fully integrate a extremes of doom/death metal with industrial. At the beginning it was arranged to become other of a grindcore oriented project, however shortly them members decided to give it the supplementary doomy edge, conjunctive sustaining the declamatory symphonious industrial sense.

Due to the largely sampler-oriented nature and severity of Zaraza's music, a band performs survive super seldom. Its virtually all known survive-indicate was when you took the favorite edition of the Montreal industrial indicate Late Nighttime Atrocity Exhibition. That nighttime, sequentially to commemorate a Fifteenth day of remembrance of the number one concert of Laibach, whom the band extremely reveres, Zaraza performed quadruplet covers: "Vier Personen", "Leben Tod", "Krvava Gruda Plodna Zemlja" & "Nova Akropola".

Fallowing releasing their foremost demonstration Life Is Demise Postponed inside 1995, received super positively in the underground, Zaraza freed its debut Video, entitled Slavic Blasphemy through the Ottawa-depending Musicus Phycus record label. It wwhen freed within 1997 & gathered a big total of caring reviews, including existence employed as one of the Top 10 albums of 1998 by Gino Filicetti of Chronicles of Chaos webzine.

Inside 1999 a band recorded their 2nd Video There are no Paradise To Lose, which was supposed to include the bonus EP sustaining Ternion Laibach covers. Even so, want of satisfaction by using the final healthy quality of the commixture run has led to a postponement of the album. All a original recordings were cast off & the sequent self-self-hatred resulted in the band running in hiatus till early 2002.

A equivalent month a band performed its one and sole "true" survive indicate by opening higher for Knurl and Merzbow in Ottawa, Canada.

Inside 2002, Zaraza re-began its activities & tackled again a project of re-recording & remixing a entire There are no Paradise To Lose album from either scratch.

November 18th 2003, a 2nd Video No Paradise To Lose was eventually freed, containing Fifty transactions of experimental industrial doomsday dying metal. the 1st 50 copies of the album sold as well involved a Foursome track lone of Laibach covers coroneted "Montrealska Akropola [Tribute to Laibach]".

Members
Jacek (A DoomHammer) Grzegorz Haus orange group Doom

Discography

Life is Death Postponed (demo, 1995) Slavic Blasphemy (1997) No Paradise To Lose (2003) Montrealska Akropola - A Tribute to Laibach (2003) Life is Demise Postponed (2004, CD-R reissue with bonus tracks)

Tracks Of Creation: Zaraza
A review of the "Slavic Blasphemy" album and an interview with Jacek.

Zaraza
Biography of the band, discography, reviews, interviews and RealAudio sound files.


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