Žrec

LOCATION : Vysočina, Czech Republic

Status : Split-up
Music : Folk Metal


MEMBERS :
Soulburner : harsh vocals, bass
Torham : guitars
Týna : clean vocals, flutes, keyboards
Sarapis : drums


HISTORY :
The band founded in 2004. Their lyrics deal with Slavonic Paganism. Nebeské Stríbro Perunovo' is a cover of Nokturnal Mortum's 'Perun's Celestial Silver' with poeticized lyrics in Czech language but Žrec lyrics doesn't deal with politic as I asked them on december 28th, 2008 :


Sword Chant : I talked about Zrec in my forum here on this thread http://swordchant.go-board.com/other-folk-metal-bands-f5/zrec-t664.htm and i wonder one thing, are zrec politically stated? I dont care if yr based more greenpart or NS or don't know, believe me. but i think its better to get most infos possible. my goal is about to help bands. and i do that on my free time. and like i said in my rules "heres not about politic but music" and indeed! music main matter! but i think its good for the people to know too. also if u wanna add more infos, they will be welcome XD thank you. :)

Žrec : Slava!
There is no NS stuff in our music, we are totally out of everything connected with politics! Lyrics of old songs are rhapsodies of bravery of slavic warriors, about proud to native health and about bad times when christians came to our land and started to destroy heathen culture. And new songs's lyrics are based on authentic traditional folklore lyrics, about life of plain villagers of ancient times, about old customs and stories, or about pagan rituals and Slavic deamons - for example Raras Rakasa is kind of imp, who harmed people at harvest, old folk story about girl who was killed in the forest by this deamon.

We are offen accused of NS because of Nokturnal Mortum cover - but this song is from 1996 demo when NM had nothing to do with NS - the lyrics are absolutely unexceptionable. Temporary activities of them we are not support in any way - in June they are going to have concert in Czech Republic and we were asked to play with them - but we refused.

And about sunwheel in our logo - old slavic symbol, nothing problematic for us.
We are lovers of folklore and old heathen traditions, not modern politics and we are tired of endless discussions if we are NS and not NS. In our country we repeatedly made clear this question, abroad you are the first who asked us about it, so we are happy to tell you this.

Thank you a lot for your interest and support!



RECORDINGS :
Nový vìk pohanský (New age of paganism), demo 2006
Žertva, album 2008
Paměti, album 2012
Klíč k pokladům, EP 2017 [ details ]


WEBSITES :

Contact : officialzrec@gmail.com

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