Brutal experimental industrial doom death metal

8 MP3 Songs
METAL: Doom/Stoner Metal, METAL: Industrial Metal



Details:
8 songs of brutal, experimental, industrial doom death metal. 50 minutes of sheer aural ugliness. Comes in deluxe DVD case.

Also check out our debut CD "Slavic Blasphemy":
http://cdbaby.com/cd/zaraza2

REVIEWS:
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A fuckin' masterpiece! - 95
"Brutal Experimental Symphonic Industrial Death Doom Metal". This concise self-description should be enough to sway any person considering the music of ZARAZA. Main member Doomhammer shows us that a union of several different styles is possible, since they all spawn from the same fountain of origin. Imagine back in the day, that diSEMBOWELMENT was bred with Skinny Puppy. Their bastard child of sin would be Quebec, Canada's Zaraza. In fact, this mutation is exactly why the band's second release, No Paradise to Lose, strikes so deeply. Bringing together the most extreme and ultimate sound of Death Doom Metal, with the uncertainty and dehumanizing effect of old school Industrial, No Paradise to Lose is a most beautifully haunting experience. This originality makes it that much more appealing. The music ranges from devastating death metal blast beats to slow down-tempo doom metal, to deranged sampling and synthetic & noisy industrial...all within one lengthy track. It is hard to put into words what Zaraza truly is. One can say it is the evolution of extreme music, leading the way for future musicians, alongside bands like ...and Oceans & Red Harvest. Complete with a brilliant Laibach cover, the pounding of the Zaraza hammer is loud and clear on No Paradise to Lose, and this album cries out to anyone who is looking for something new, underground, and vastly original.
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My head got blown off, but with arms trembling from fright I still managed to give them five Iron Crosses. I didn't know this band before, but now I promise to follow their endeavours on an ogoing basis. ZARAZA is the project of 2 Polish immigrants, created in Montreal in 1993. "No Paradise To Lose" is the second CD put out by these desperados and I can tell you I haven't heard in a long time anything this sick, dark and chillingly cold. Mr. Jacek and Grzegorz Haus Ov Doom describe their music as brutal industrial doom metal. You should try to imagine a combination of the symphonics of LAIBACH, the industrial lashes of GODFLESH, add to that the reinforced concrete-like heaviness of WINTER and from these ingredients you will get more or less that what ZARAZA materializes in their rotten, pandemonic visions. I have no idea as to what they usually eat, drink and smoke in that Canada, but it must mess horribly with their heads, resulting in this material. Just being within the range of the tar-like sounds emitted by "No Paradise To Lose" will make you feel like one of the damned. Less guitars and metal, lots of dark tones, incantations and evil curses. A must for fans of a different type of hell!
Thrash'Em All Magazine (Poland)
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Zaraza, meaning a parasite in some Slavic languages (in Polish maybe, in Russian for sure), is more than anything a Laibach worship, worshipping, worshippers... They do not try to hide the fact, for they have incorporated a Laibach cover song 'Nova Acropola' into they new, second album, as well as added a 4-song Laibach tribute CD-R as an additive to the DVD-packaged new album, 'No Paradise to Lose'. For this fact, Zaraza cannot be immediately recognized as a doom metal par excellence outfit, nor a metal band altogether... And I fucking like it, just because of that. You see, you can be Satanic even outside the black metal circles (mostly jokes-for-bands there...) you can be Satanic, you can write good God-denying music, in an intelligent fashion, summoning the metallic voice of Steven Hawking to aid you proving your point ('the universe is self-contained and without a creator'...).

Zaraza are cold, so fucking cold and emotionless, that a human heart can freeze if listening to this music without a warning. Being cold is cool (literally) but what I like about this second album of those Polish-Canadian immigrants is that their music's industrial tinge is really of an industrial origin, a true industrial essence. The music contains true industry, i.e., metal pipes being hammered, some mechanic sounds, some other factory-related sounds, sad, annoying, non-human sounds of decay, burden, suffering and hopelessness as if we all are only cannon-fodder for the daily grind of this over-technological, over-mechanized era, where people are only economic pawns that are destined to produce and manufacture, for the benefit of a greater scheme, of which they are not familiar with. As if Einsturzende Neubauten had joined with Skin Chamber, and spawned some bastard child whose uncle is the above mentioned Laibach, and whose relatives are any wretched feeling, deed or wrong-doing known to mankind...

Zaraza are the new age prophets in more than one sense; They have created a new musical dimension, which is an upgrade of all that is fearsome is doom metal, coupled with anything which a really disturbing electronic music can be: cold, repetitive, industrial death it is, not as in death metal (what is so deadly is death metal I do not know...) but dead music, lifeless and foreboding, but so much powerful and dynamic, a fact that overshadows the monotony of it all. In all my long time experience with what ever kind of musical expression, mainly in the metal underground and the industrial/electronics realm, never have I encountered such a unique musical entity, that manifests almost perfectly (only God is perfect, yes?) everything which I, personally love about heavy, obscure - and to some extent - prophetic music. If only for the originality factor, this album gets my highest praise, but it contains so much more than just that. Although I own also Zaraza's debut album 'Slavic blasphemy', I wish not make any sorts of comparisons here, first, because I am not so much familiar with the debut, and second, because I think this album deserves to be judged upon its own, if only for the fact it has truly caught my attention in these crowded times when albums are being mindlessly released in an increasing rate, albums which are faceless, nameless and those which are time and again fail to catch my attention for more than a single listen. Zaraza are a highly intelligent duo of musicians, creating an insane, heavy-as-fuck, super-human musical experience, slow, mysterious , ultra-bleak and disturbing to the hilt. This album comes as highly recommended, as this is, my friends, fucking industrial doom (and much more).
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