Athame: Zdań has begun as a DSBM project by Athame and Agnostyc. We composed a few riffs to create songs. But then Agnostyc had difficult times in his life. He endured hard depression. He was in apathy. He didn’t want to do anything including music. In this hard time I stayed alone. I didn’t know what to do with this project. My soul was longing for it. I wanted to finish the first album anyway. Then I started searching for a person who could help me with recording. When I met Disorder - a guitarist and bass-guitarist - I had finished all the songs of the first album. He has DSBM project I’m Nothing. They recorded one album and stopped their existence. We focused our attention on the recording of Zdań music.
Olga Kann helped us with cover art. She organized this crazy photoset and made the design of the booklet.
02. WHAT WAS THE FEELING FOR THE CHOICE OF THE NAME ZDAŃ?
Athame: Zdań is a Belarusian name for “ghost”. We all lose close people, time spares no one. Memories of them remain with us like ghosts. They come to us from our memory and the hidden feelings of sorrow and sadness emerge from the depths of the soul.
03. WHAT`S THE ACTUAL LINE UP?
Athame: We are a studio project at the moment. But I’m going to assemble a band to play at some gigs may be in the future.
04. WHO WRITES THE MUSIC? LYRICS? AND WHERE DO THE LYRICS IDEAS COME FROM?
Athame: Lyrics and music were written by me (Athame). It comes from my soul, from my heart, from my feelings. Like many people I find it very hard to endure the death of the nearest people. Grief, sorrow and sadness are the main sources of the ideas of music. The lyrics also cover topics of temptation, human weaknesses, meaningless premature deaths, filth of human vices and sordid desires. I mourn the imperfection of human nature. All these issues are reflected in the lyrics.
05. WHAT MERCHANDISE DO YOU STILL HAVE AVAILABLE?
Athame: We have CDs of the first album available. Email to contact: ZdańDSBM@gmail.com. And I’ll send you the CD by post.
We have no more merch. But we are going to make t-shirts with our logo.
06.TELL US MORE ABOUT: SVETLAJA PAMIAC, VIECNY, SPAKOJ - FULL-LENGTH.
Athame: SVETLAJA PAMIAC, VIECNY, SPAKOJ is our first album. It was released by a Japanese label Maa Prod on the 7th of April 2017. It contains seven songs. The album turned out very melodic and heartbreaking. It reflects my very personal experiences and emotions. I expressed in music what I cannot tell anyone. I want to bring my pain through the music to the listener. I hope listeners feel the same emotions I felt and recognise their own feelings in it.
There is Disorder at the cover. The idea of this cover is to show the listener the theme of this album
07. HAVE YOU PLAYED MANY GIGS?
Athame: I played gigs with other bands of my fellow musicians or my old bands as a pianist or a vocalist. But We have never taken part in gigs with Zdań.
08. TELL US ABOUT THE BLACK METAL SCENE IN BELARUS?
Athame: The black metal scene in Belarus exists and it is developed fairly well. There are many old-style bands playing classical black metal. But I am mostly interested in DSBM and atmospheric bands. There are few interesting projects playing DSBM in Belarus.I can advise music I really enjoy: I’m Nothing, Victim Path, Chernolesie, Door into Emptiness, Dymna Lotva, Folkvang, Kaat, Niezgal, Pagan, Zmrok, [Für].
Disorder: I want to emphasize that one of the outstanding features of the Belarusian metal is the Belarusian language of the lyrics.
09. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF SATANISM AND OCCULTISM?
Disorder: Satanism and occultism is an integral part of the formation of black metal as a style and ideology, but there are many other directions that also have a great influence on a modern variety of subgenres. It is manifested in the pre-Christian past of Belarus and the national love for folk melodies. The large number of precisely pagan black metal bands is the consequence of this.
Athame: I was trying to study something about Satanism and occultism when I was younger. I was very interested in this questions before. I could not put into practice any of the recommendation. Maybe it is a kind of philosophy. I like to study philosophy. but not more than that. I'm not a religious person. I am not an adherent of religious groups and sects. I do not trust anyone in matters of my worldview. I have my opinion on all the questions.
Perhaps there are mystical things that I have not encountered. I do not deny their existence, but I cannot take it seriously until I encounter them in my life.
10. WHAT´S THE BLACK METAL FOR YOU?
Athame: Black metal is total mental war with doubtful values of people. Black metal is a confrontation of vicious human nature, self-development and the search for truth. Black metal is underground music for those who are disappointed in the imposed values of this world and try to comprehend the truth through their reason and sensations. Black metal is a resolute protest to the prevailing opinions in the society and a false morality.
11. WHICH IS THE IDEOLOGY OF ZDAŃ?
Disorder: As a DSBM band we try to excite the listener’s feelings and emotions. Emotions in the majority influence the development and formation of the person in own self. My main idea is personal development.
Athame:
I always tried to convey my experience through music. The music of this album mainly reflects my pain, sadness, sorrow, mental anguish, regret for the tragic events of the past. I hope the music will find a response in the soul of the listener who is experiencing the same feelings or some form of depression. I hope that listening to our music will help listeners liberate themselves from the deep feelings of those emotions which are usually hidden and suppressed.
12. DO YOU HAVE ANY SIDE PROJECTS?
Disorder: All the musicians of Zdań have side projects. We played in different groups, in different directions, from folk to black metal. (Jar, I’m Nothing) We never restricted ourselves to one particular direction.
Athame: I’ve enjoyed music since my childhood. I used to play in different bands. I try to be interested in all the worthy musical styles. But one day I realized that DSBM was my favorite music style.
Now I take part in the projects of my mates. But my heart belongs to Zdań.
13. FUTURE PLANS?
Disorder: As for the future plans, the recording of the second full-length album is being carried out now. The songs for it have already been invented, half of the instruments have already been recorded. In the near future we will finish the recording and will start looking for a label for its full implementation. Still, as mentioned above, there are plans to assemble a band and play a few concerts. And we will try not to stop at what has been achieved, to develop and to move forward.
14. ANY LAST COMMENTS?
Disorder: I would like to send my best regards to all the fans and listeners of black metal. And I would like to not want to change myself and achieve my goal. Many thanks for your interest in our band. Hello from Belarus.
Athame: I want to tell people who are currently experiencing difficult periods in their life, feel the devastation and pain that life is short. We need to appreciate every minute and live every day as the last, because every day death is closer. Whatever happens, do not choose death, value life. Death will come for you at the appointed time.
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