Zavorash

Zavorash (abbrevation of "Za Vorbashtar Raz Shapog", J.R.R Tolkien's "black speech" for "The Legion of Vengeance").

Swedish (Stockholm-based) black metal band started in 1996 by (psudonyms) Zablogma (vocals), Zagzakel (guitars) and Zagrash (guitars, production). The band released a self-titled demo-tape in late -96. In 1998 Necromorbus was recruited as drummer and the band recorded their second demo "In Odium Veritas" - two additional songs were recorded for two separate underground-compilations featuring the current black/death metal scene (of which only Voices of Death Compilation Vol. II is the only one that got released). The band also attended a live gig south of Stockholm.

In 2002 the band signed with Selbsmord Services and first released their "In Odium Veritas Demo" as a MCD with previously unreleased bonus material, after which, in 2003, the full-length album "N.A.S.D." (Nihilistic Ascension & Spiritual Death") was recorded. Behind this production was only Zablogma (now calling himself Totalscorn) and Necromorbus (a.k.a. I.Hate), as both the original guitarists of the band had quit. The two remaining members of the band used Gideon on bass.

The cooperation with Selbstmord Services, and it's renowned owner Niklas Kvarforth, led to a swap of labels post-production in the case of the NASD-release. Finally Total Holocaust Records (of southern Sweden) released the album - many years delayed - in 2005.

Having first been viewed as a rather typical black metal band of the more classical type, Zavorash's second demo and final album marked a more refined variety of the genre; having an outspoken nihilistic dogma behind the lyrics and thus taking an ideological stance both against conventional christian society but also the religious influences within the black metal scene itself (satanists etc.). Reviewers were predominantly very positive to the music, even though the band never seemed to even aim at any larger commercial success.

Members of the band, specifically Totalscorn and Necromorbus, are known in metal circuits for their participation in other bands, Necromorbus being by far the most routined arist of the two.

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