Hideous Divinity

Batushka are a controversial Polish black metal band. Their music is drenched in imagery and texts from Eastern Orthodox Christianity with lyrics sung exclusively in Old Church Slavonic. Although it can't be officially confirmed, they are banned from playing in Russia and Belarus. Pronounced "Batjushka," the band's name is spelled Батюшка in Cyrillic and means "father" in Eastern Orthodoxy (used to address a priest). Their songs contain lines of liturgical chanting backed by black metal instrumentation and aesthetics, and they dress in hooded robes. Despite claims by others that they're blasphemous and anti-Christian, Batushka are ambiguous about this, though translators have claimed the band inverts the Judeo-Christian linguistic imagery to reflect the deification of the self, not God.
No one combines death and black metal quite like Poland's Hate. With unflinching viciousness and a sense of atmosphere unique to the band, on Rugia, their twelfth full-length, they push the boundaries of their craft even further. "It was clear to me that it should build upon and evolve from our previous record 'Auric Gates Of Veles' (2019) both musically and lyrically. However, every Hate record stands as a separate journey, and never twice to the same place. 

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THE MONARCH NEW YORK

Batushka, Hate, Hideous Divinity

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