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Today, December 25, 2020, we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the first release of the mysterious LJOSAZABOJSTWA: \"Stara\u017eytnaje licha\". The best gift for such a holiday could only be a new album by the band, but to ask for it would be too early and brazen. But I got another gift: a lengthy interview.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Welcome to the pages of Bagnik Zine! Let's start this interrogation, as always, from the start. Tell us about the birth of LJOSAZABOJSTWA. What and when made you to form the group? When did it happen? What is the purpose, mission, or meaning of the LSZB?<\/strong>
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LSZB:<\/strong> The idea for LSZB came a long time ago, but was only realized in 2014, when both original members decided to play even slower than they had in previous bands. Honestly, it was assumed that LSZB would be something like a Beherit-worship band, but it all went through the ass and turned out as it turned out. The meaning of the band's existence is blasphemy, glorifying the Devil and playing metal, preferably gloomy and heavy.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you created the band, did you have such an idea in your mind that there is a lack of bands of this style in the Belarusian musical space?<\/strong><\/p>\n

LSZB:<\/strong> Which one? Black? Death? The band was formed without looking to get into a niche or close a gap. We just play Death \/ Black Metal the way we got used to it. We also don't see a shortage of bands, just for most Belarusians, Death and Black is something like SIX FEET UNDER and BATUSHKA, but not, for example, AUTOPSY or DEMONCY, so almost no one writes about the true Krywian underground on many portals and blogs. Everyone needs bagpipes, towels and crying girls, and, of course, \"originality\". Yes, and what a lack of bands we can talk about, if every metalhead here or playing somewhere, or pretends to be journalist. But there is almost no regular listeners and metal fans. Life is a pain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to the photo placed under the disk with \"G\u0142oryja \u015amierci\", you can see that now the group consists of 3 people. But how many people were in the line-up at the time of creating the band?<\/strong>
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LSZB:<\/strong> From the beginning, the band was a duo of vocalist-drummer-bassist and guitarist-keyboardist, but at the time of recording the first EP, a From the beginning, the band was a duo of vocalist-drummer-bassist and guitarist-keyboardist, but at the time of recording the first EP, a separate bassist appeared. The band has been playing in a trio format for about four years. Maybe we'll take more crying girls later, to be like ZNICH or something.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Why did you decide to remain anonymous?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

LSZB:<\/strong> It is stylish, fashionable, youthful. We didn't wanted to be another band, I didn't want to be another band, about which they would write something like \"former members of such a band and a band of some kind.\" As it turned out later, the anonymity is annoying for many listeners, which also pleased us (for me, too - annoying, I mean - editor<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n

LSZB is a radically Belarusian-speaking band both on albums and in a \"civilian\" environment. Why was this approach chosen?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

LSZB:<\/strong> Belarusian is a dead language, it is best suited for performing Death Metal, and for metal in general. It sounds gloomy and angry, and we don't understand why it seems \"sweet-sounding\" to some. Latin was used for the same reason - it was funny to read some great Russian comments about \"cock-a-doodle-doo, they sold themselves to Poles\", \"I don't understand what language this is\", \"why you write in Belarusian in English alphabet\" or \"reeeeeee reeeeee Belarusian language is artifical and invented by Poles, mother russia father tsar no step back\" even from our compatriots. We piss on faces of such \"Belarusians\".<\/span><\/p>\n

Tell us about your sources of inspiration, including the bands that influenced LSZB music.<\/strong>
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LSZB: You don\u2019t have enough room in the zine. AUTOPSY! Also, in addition to the obvious MORTUARY DRAPE, MYSTIFIER and MASTER'S HAMMER, we can say that the sound of LSZB was influenced by the first two tapes DARKTHRONE, DREAM DEATH \"Journey into Mystery\", FLESHCRAWL \"Descend Into The Absurd\", CONVULSE \"World Without God\", MY DYING BRIDE \"As the Flowers Wither\", first releases of SLAYER, IMPETIGO, SLAUGHTER, BEHERIT, INFERNAL MAJESTY (demo), TORR, BESTIAL WARLUST, BLASPHEMY, CONQUEROR, PANDEMONIUM, SAMAEL, SEPULTURA '86 and '87, GOATLORD, MORBID ANGEL \u201cAbominations\u2026\u201d and \u201cAltars\u2026\u201d - we can continue, but the biggest sources of inspiration seem to be these.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Stara\u017eytnaje licha\" (2015) is your first release. Tell us a little about its creation and recording.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

LSZB:<\/strong> When we started playing LSZB, we decided to limit ourselves as little as possible when creating the material, so it all happened pretty quickly. Also we haven\u2019t played (almost) similar music so far, it was an interesting experience. The whole demo was completely ready half a year later and, in a very intoxicated state, recorded in one or two evenings at our rehearsal point. Two microphones on tambourines, the same microphones on guitar and bass. It is unlikely that the recordings were accompanied by any interesting stories, just two crazy people locked themselves in the garage and recorded something. Of course, for the glory of Satan.<\/span><\/p>\n