This year’s tenth festival sword and lemess / day
Historical reconstructor clubs from the Baltic States will take care of the atmosphere of the antiquity, which this year is also accompanied by Finnish representatives. New that there will be two thematic readings this year – Saturday For freedom (about Semigallians, National Guards, Sagittarius, National Partisans), Sunday – For the roots (What was eaten in Livonia, as the Semigallians used waterways, what the medieval sound world was, as a modern mound mound).
Sword and lemess There is a place where metal music genres meet and become a bridge between several generations of visitors, history and present, white roots and modern cultural practices. In synergy with the participants and the audience, the ZL creates an alternative atmosphere and a free space in which the cultural heritage meets extreme music, creating an informal environment with its own story and atmosphere.
Entrance to the festival area and in the tent town from Friday, June 7, at 9 p.m. 15.00. In the evening, the fire ritual is expected – a symbolic opening of the ancient village of the tenth festival.
The festival will feature well -known musicians and younger bands who have the potential to become an interesting new discovery. The concert program will cover a variety of genres, ranging from folk music and post -folk to folk metal and the most powerful manifestations of other metal genres. There is also a unifying element in diversity – some of the musicians are characterized by contact points with ethnic music, folklore, mythology, pagan, history and/or feelings of nature and its manifestations in today’s interpretations.
« We do not strive for very loud words, which would make the festival forced to start a compromise and commercial way – that would mean getting to the system, higher ticket prices, losing your mood, » says festival organizer Valdis Berzvads. « This is a small festival where you can meet musicians while standing for beer and then playing football with them. The ZL is a good heavy music and an authentic atmosphere. So we highlight the underground stage words – among them are musical nuggets and not yet blamed. in music. «
Among the most welcome are the participants who will perform in Latvia for the first time – Spain Death Metal heavyweight Avulsed and the Finnish cult black metal association ArchGoat. Will be the craftsmen of Swedish gloomy Isole, whose members are also known from the group Ērb altor And who gives an excellent atmospheric musical journey.
Ukraine will be represented by the well -known group of Latvian Black metal lovers Khor with the new album LETTERS TO THE FUTURE SELF Concert program, Death Metal genre Orbstruktas well as Severoth (Currently Poland) – an atmospheric black metal project that will be enjoyed for the first time in live performance in Latvia. Topics that pass -rich music – poetry, philosophy and Ukrainian nature.
Dymna Lotva Music brings up emotions, dramatism and explosive energy on the stage – a prospective group that is currently breaking the way for European metal festivals with a huge self -esteem. Founded in Belarus, but is currently based in Poland (participants have actively supported protests in Belarus; after their suppression, to avoid the political persecution of the regime, some musicians had to flee to Ukraine; 2022. In music intertw an gloomy metal (doom) and postblec metal (Post Black)Following it with folk music and depressed black metal nuances and plays unforgettable concerts.
Symbolically that in 2025 Sword and lemess The legendary pagan/folk/gloomymal group will return to the stage in difficult conditions Honor Tower (Belarus/Lithuania) who spoke in the first Sword and lemess 2015 in Selonia. The sound is characterized by the theme of history and mythology, which permeates both heavy instrumental performance and lyrics. At the end of May Honor Tower will go on tour End of all Times And there are concerns that they can become a farewell concert.
Among the musical events should be highlighted by the domestic gloomy band Druunthat will give a concert program in honor of the 90s cult groups Grindmaster Dead album Stronger than love.
The Latvian metal scenery will still be represented by two brilliant bands in their genres – gloomy classics Fraily and Mara (Death/Thrash/Groove Metal), who has performed in many parts of Europe and whose vocalist Mara Lisenko has entered many Best Female Metal Vocalists At the top of the survey. Underground music classics Sad will perform with The stones of a sad iconic concert program will also be a post -folklore group Kaligo, psychedelic music and heavy rock association Blood and Blackened Doom project In the hostswho has started performing this year as a group and has shaken the Latvian metal scenery in a good sense. Lithuania will be represented Gyvata (Kaipeda).
Juris Kaukulis will also perform at the festival with Rock concert solo; Dam from Inocent with an acoustic program, Gleb Belyaev Piano Metal Covers and Father Andy.
Historical reconstructors and craftsmen will be welcomed on Saturday, June 7, from 10 am. Exercitus Rigensis Manager Juris Nechayev. You will be able to watch swords’ demonstrations and participate in workshops, make ancient jewelry replies, try a bagpipe game, participate in the throat singing competition, or watch bronze casting. There will also be, for example, an informal lecture on the Viking era -era battle tactics telling historian Harri Hihnala (Finnish Vanguard, Finland), dressed in an authentic soldier’s outfit. As many parents take their children to the event (free up to the age of 12), this year will be especially considered the involvement of the new generation and creative activities.
There will also be fire, but on June 8th, the artist Andris Jigun’s environmental fire will be lit Fire. For the form of a sculpture, the artist is inspired by the Iron Age seafood ships and symbolically refers to the importance of waterways in Zemgale antiquity.
Saturday will have four themed narratives in the cycle For freedom (starts at 10.30). Dr. Hist. Guntis Zemītis will talk about the land of Semigalli Upmales and its relationship with the rest of Zemgale in the 13th century, mg. Hist. Dagnis Dedumietis will focus on the activities of the Daugavgriva National Guard Battalions in Lithuania and Zemgale in 1915 – Sagittarius before Riflemen, Dr. Philol. Gatis Ozoliņš will present the development of the 7th Bauska Latvian Riflemen Battalion (Regiment) and the Battle of Battle, while Mg. Hist. Raitis Ābelnieks from the Bauska Museum will present the activities of national partisans in Bauska County after World War II. On Sunday, June 8, a special program will take place in the courtyard of Bauska Castle, which will also have a series of reading About the roots.
Tickets for the festival are currently available at a more favorable price and can be purchased Ticketsshop.lv. As the event approaches, the price will increase. For children under the age of 13, entrance to the festival is free, and adolescents at the age of 13-16 will be available at a discount at the box office at the festival box office.
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