Batushka are a Polish band whose members have not been disclosed, but they are reputed to be from well-known bands. Their debut album Litourgiya was released on December 5 by the Polish label Witching Hour Productions. It makes an astonishing impact from the very first song, and all the way to the end.
The music is dark, heaving, and very heavy — with bombastic outbreaks of wildfire and thunder — and the bleak, majestic melodies are effective at getting under the skin. But what sets the music apart and makes the album especially memorable are the vocals. In addition to the incinerating shrieks that you might expect in a black metal album, you’ll hear reverberating liturgical chants in what I’m told is Church Slavonic — the language used in the Orthodox Church in such places as Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as nations in the Balkan Peninsula.
he vocal chants are recited in a range of voices, including both deep and higher male voices and in one song a female voice. The dramatic, keyboard-enhanced melodies in the music — when combined with those chants, some beautiful clean singing (in the seventh track), and a few other unexpected instrumental touches (including the echo of ecclesiastical bells) — elevate the music to a plane where the stately and the explosive find room to coexist. It’s as if a solemn voice is telling you to bow your heads in prayer, to await the vortex of fire and the earthquake, which are not long in coming — in fact, they are all around you throughout this album.
I have a very difficult time picking out any one song as my favorite — they are all powerfully good and beautifully produced. I also really want to use the word “epic”, even though I swore a long time ago that I would stop using that word, the word “epic”. Spelled E-P-I-C.
Late in the year, this album has quickly become one of my 2015 favorites. Highly recommended.
P.S. I’m told by my Russian friend “B” that “Batushka” (“Батюшка”) roughly translates as “Holy Father”, that grammatically it’s an endearing variation of a folksy word for “Father”– “Bat’ka” (Батька), but that the most common current-day use of this variation is to refer to a priest.
(I have lot of people to thank for my discovery of this album, all of whom praised it to me — Vacuity and Piotr in their comments on NCS posts, and “B” (Station Dysthymia) and “M” in messages to me on FB. “B” also pointed me to the very sweet wooden box icon edition of the album, which you can see above. I think I must have it.)
https://www.facebook.com/Batushka-1004746209548365/
https://witchinghourproductions.bandcamp.com/album/li..
http://store.witchinghour.pl/batushka-litourgiya-wood..
Official and only contact
http://www.batushkaoffcial.com/
batushka@batushkaofficial.com
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Cобственно не нашел темы на форуме, мож где в блек теме и терли о них, но хз. Польский как они говорят Ортодокс блек дум проект музыкантов чьи имена пока не раскрываются(довольно избитый ход
), но говорят что музыканты там известные, я уверен на 99 процентов что там пацанва из Vader и Behemoth, собственно в инете ребята нашумели не мало, думаю многие на форуме даже далекие от чорного метала слышали о них. Чувачки стебуться над православием и с учетом того что в РФ и Экссср также как и в Восточной Европе тоже православие, и название группы писано на кириллице то команду активно обтирают в рунете и отбивают челобитную, собственно сам я скажу что довольно песдатый и стебный музон у пацанов вышел, картина у меня при прослушке предстает как будто чернокнижники наепали народ и устроились попами в церковь работать,а по ночам епашат диавольский музон на алтаре и ужираются кагором.Собсна высказываемся о банде
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либерализм и толерантность-культурные синонимы слов пидерастия и петушатня
клму он нахуй нужен со своим пиаром на почве религии, когда в мире проблем чуть более чем дохуя помимо веры в егрегоры порожденные человеками 
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