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for|the town|Zaraza, GuáricoInfobox musical artist | name = Zaraza| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Montreal , Quebec , Canada | genre = Industrial metal Death/Doom Avant-garde Metal | years_active = start date|1993–end date|2006| label = Total Zero | associated_acts =| website =| current_members = Jacek (The DoomHammer) Grzegorz Haus ov Doom| past_members = Zaraza (from Polish language|Polish , " Plague (disease)|plague ") was an Experimental rock|experimental / Industrial metal|industrial funeral doom band from Canada .
Biography
Formed in Montreal , Canada, in early 1993, Zaraza was born out of a meeting between newly arrived Poland|Polish immigrant Jacek (The DoomHammer) and local Montreal industrial/ Noise music|noise artist Grzegorz Haus ov Doom, with the object of fully integrating the extremes of Doom metal|doom / death metal with Industrial music|industrial .cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Interview with Jacek | work = Tracks of Creation: Dark Future | publisher = | date = | url = http://disemia.com/creation/issue_2_3/dark/zaraza.html | doi = | accessdate = 2008-12-08 At the beginning it was intended to be a grindcore -oriented project, but they soon decided on a more doomy edge, combined with a bombastic symphonic industrial feel.
Due to the largely Sampler (musical instrument)|sampler -oriented nature of Zaraza's music, the band very rarely performed live. Its best-known live show was during a special edition of the Montreal industrial show Late Night Atrocity Exhibition . That night, in order to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the first concert of Laibach (band)|Laibach , whose early albums (from the 1980s) the band highly revered, Zaraza performed four covers: "Vier Personen," "Leben Tod," "Krvava Gruda Plodna Zemlja," and "Nova Akropola."
After releasing their first demo, Life Is Death Postponed , in 1995, received positively in the underground,cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Life is Death Postponed demo reviews | work = Zaraza website | publisher = | date = | url = http://zaraza.ca/reviews.php? id=2 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2009-05-04 |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20060712141212/zaraza.ca/reviews.php? id=2 |archivedate=2006-07-12 Zaraza released its debut CD, Slavic Blasphemy , through the Ottawa-based Musicus Phycus label.cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Zaraza interview | work = EternalFrost Webzine | publisher = | date = | url = http://home.earthlink.net/~goden666/eternalfrost/issue2/zaraint.htm | doi = | accessdate = 2009-05-04 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20020821064009/ http://home.earthlink.net/~goden666/eternalfrost/issue2/zaraint.htm |archivedate = 2002-08-21 It was released in 1997 and gathered a large number of positive reviews,cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Slavic Blasphemy reviews | work = Zaraza website | publisher = | date = | url = http://zaraza.ca/reviews.php? id=3 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2009-05-04 |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20060712141127/zaraza.ca/reviews.php? id=3 |archivedate=2006-07-12 and was listed as one of the Top 10 albums of 1998 by Gino Filicetti of Chronicles of Chaos (webzine)|Chronicles of Chaos webzine.cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = CoC Writers Choose their Top 10 albums of 1998 | work = Chronicles of Chaos (webzine)|Chronicles of Chaos | publisher = | date = | url = http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/COC/coc036.txt | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2009-05-04
In 1999 the band recorded their second CD, No Paradise To Lose , which was supposed to include a bonus EP with 3 Laibach (band)|Laibach covers. However, lack of satisfaction with the final sound quality of the mixing process led to a postponement of the album. All the original recordings were discarded and the resulting self-disgust resulted in the band going on hiatus till early 2002.cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Interview with Jacek | work = Doom-Metal.com | publisher = | date = | url = http://www.doom-metal.com/interview.php? id=10 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2009-05-04Dead link|date=November 2010|bot=H3llBot The same year the band performed its one and only "true" live show by opening up for Knurl and Merzbow in Ottawa, Canada.
In 2002, Zaraza re-started its activities and tackled again the task of re-recording and remixing the entire No Paradise To Lose album from scratch. In November 2003, No Paradise To Lose was finally released, containing 50 minutes of experimental industrial doom death metal, to many critical acclaims.cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = No Paradise to Lose reviews | work = Zaraza website | publisher = | date = | url = http://zaraza.ca/reviews.php? id=4 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2009-05-04 |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20060712141212/zaraza.ca/reviews.php? id=4 |archivedate=2006-07-12 The first 50 copies of the album sold also included a 4-track single of Laibach covers, "Montrealska Akropola Tribute to Laibach".
The band disbanded in July 2006 via an official announcement on their website. At the end of 2006, they started releasing all their albums as open source audio via http://www.archive.org/ archive.org.
Members
Jacek (The DoomHammer) – Singing|lead vocals , drum machine , Sampler (musical instrument)|samplers , keyboard instrument|keyboards
Grzegorz Haus ov Doom – operatic vocals , samplers, keyboards
No Paradise to Lose (CD, Total Zero Records, 2003)
Montrealska Akropola - A Tribute to Laibach (Single, Total Zero Records, 2003)
Life is Death Postponed (2004, CD-R reissue with bonus tracks)
References
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External links
http://www.archive.org/details/Zaraza_Slavic_Blasphemy "Slavic Blasphemy" CD available for download in FLAC , Ogg Vorbis and MP3 formats
http://www.archive.org/details/ZarazanoParadiseToLose "No Paradise to Lose" CD available for download in FLAC , Ogg Vorbis and MP3 formats
myspace|zarazadoom
http://web.archive.org/web/20070104043530/ http://zaraza.ca/ Zaraza page on the Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/20070110103335/zaraza.ca/interviews.php Zaraza interviews on the Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/20070110103025/zaraza.ca/artwork.php Zaraza album artwork on the Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/20070110103220/zaraza.ca/wallpapers.php Zaraza wallpapers on the Internet Archive
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