Batushka

black metal doom metal Orthodox Black Metal polish seen live polish black metal poland atmospheric black metal metal Orthodox Doom Black Doom Metal Post-Black Metal melodic black metal Black UnBlack Metal death metal blackened doom metal post black metal christian black metal atmospheric All post metal polish metal pravoslavno

Manage Your Tags

Batushka is a Church Slavonic-speaking Polish black metal band. Pronounced "Batjushka", the band's Cyrillic name Батюшка means "father" and is used to address an Eastern Orthodox priest. Their live line-up contains 8 members. Their songs contain lines of liturgical chanting paired with black metal instrumentation. The current status of who controls the band is unclear and in legal dispute. In December 2018, both Христофор and Варфоломей claimed they kicked the other one out of Batushka and decided to continue the band separately. For now, there are two versions of the band: Христофор's Батюшка and Варфоломей's Batushka. In spite of claims by others that they may be blasphemous and anti-Christian, the band is ambiguous about whether they are genuinely religious or not. The band "leaves its audience to decide what it is - black or unblack." <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Batushka">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.