Oh fuck, what did the internet do now? 2015. December. Out of nowhere, Witching Hour Productions releases Litourgiya by a completely unknown band called Batushka and takes the metal world by storm. Eastern Orthodox chants and black metal, what’s not to like? That’s what most publications thought too, so it naturally received critical acclaim. Consequentially, new music definitely was to come, right? Hold your bowls, porcelain wranglers. Little did we know that behind the curtains, there was trouble brewing… The Polish Schism It all began when Krzysztof Drabikowski uploaded a video to YouTube, where he claimed that Batushka’s vocalist Bartłomiej … Continue reading Into The Batushkaverse: When One Schism Is Not Enough