Brutal experimental industrial doom death metal

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



Details:
Debut ZARAZA CD from 1997. Chosen as one of the Top 10 albums of 1998 by Gino Filicetti of Chronicles of Chaos zine.

Also check out our second CD "No Paradise To Lose":
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Reviews:
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A Tragic Opus zine - 2002

Zaraza, simply put, is nothing like anything you have ever heard. It is a nasty and frightening trip into realms only explored by Esoteric, whilst still sounding nothing like Esoteric. The music is definately doom, but mixed with industrial in a way that literally no other bands have before. It at times reminds me of early Swans and other bands such as Einsturzende Neubauten, which are ugly and hideous sounding industrial bands in the first place. Mixing this sound with doom has produced some brilliant, if scary sounding results. Simply put, the music sounds like the soundtrack to the ship's log in the movie Event Horizon.

It should be noted that the entire album was recorded using mostly (if not all) samples, giving it a very cold and mechanical feel. It is also partly sung in another language, which escapes me at this moment, Polish from memory, which to anyone who doesn't speak understand it, adds an extra alien sounding tinge to the music. It also leads to some very weird and distorted samples rearing their ugly heads, at times (towards the end of 'Zakazany' and 'Cell Of Skin') degerating into harsh outbursts of noise and distortion, which sounds unbelievably good, if a little unsettling. Also thrown into this ecclectic mix is shades of death metal, which are particularly evident right from the outset on '24 Hours', which shows the least doom tendancies out of the entire album and as such sounds a little out of place, and is probably the only fault I could point out in this nightmarish assault from Zaraza. On the other hand, the rest of the album is a highlight in itself and I find it difficult to pick out a favourite track as they all show excellent song writing and they all ooze doom like a black plague leaking out of my speakers, unsurprising considering that Zaraza translates into 'plague'. I have to say though, that the track 'Cell Of Skin' should be used in a horror movie. Not a crappy B grade or teen movie, rather a horror movie so terrifying and bloodthirtsy that it couldn't possibly me made. The track is very unstructured and sounds very organic, almost as if it was alive, with piles of strange unsettling samples thrown in all over the place, culminating in distorted piano chaos. The tracks 'Everyday Is A Funeral' and 'Necessary' would probably be of immediate interest to doom-metal fans, as these two are the least strange and disturbing, at least when you compare them to the likes of 'Cell Of Skin', but they in their own right have plenty of weird samples and things happening in the background. There isn't really much more I can say about this album, I probably haven't done it justice in this review as it truly is a masterpiece of horror /doom /industrial /metal, and the amount of work put into it is obvious as the music is incredably densely layered, bringing new little details with every listen. Excellent if not unsettling album that is definately worth getting your hands on.
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www.doom-metal.com - 2001

Let's not deny it any longer: Zaraza are not human. The creatures that created something as cold, sick and claustrophobic sounding as 'Slavic Blasphemy', can definitely not be human! This album is an obvious plot for world domination by letting us dwell in endless nightmares. I have rarely encountered and album this scary! This is the stuff that nightmares are made of, a soundtrack of a horror movie too sick to actually be shown. Haunting miserable sounds are twisted around in such a way that I lack the words to describe this myself. As such I am forced to fall back on the dead on description the band themselves give: "Brutal Experimental Symphonic Industrial Doom Death Metal". Especially the mixture of Industrial with Doom creates a claustrophobic atmosphere that has me gasping for air. No, this has not been made by human beings, this simply is too unholy.