The Industrial Twilight: Zhraja - "Forgotten Songs of Dead Nation" [2002]

Monday, September 7, 2020

Zhraja - "Forgotten Songs of Dead Nation" [2002]

Artist: Zhraja

Title: Forgotten Songs of Dead Nation

Genre: Experimental Industrial/Folk Metal

Country: Belarus
Year: 2002

Track List:

Vain
Oriental Setting
Over Him
Dissappointed
Misjudge
Years of Soft Living
Discretion
State - Hysterics
Now Good-Bye
Never Know Mix
Bloodstain

A very obscure and strange release that defies a simple genre classification and can be best described as electronic metal with black metal-style vocals and folk elements. There's not much information about the band, except it's a duo from Minsk led by a member of a late 90s black metal band called Bachus. I found out about Zhraja many years ago when I was only starting getting into underground metal (interestingly, the site where I've found some of their tracks back then is still alive and well).

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