Hi! A lot of things happened, wars, catastrophies, revolts ;) Litvintroll has formed a solid crew, we released our debut album and at the moment we are working with the newest material. We travelled thousands kilometres, we met a lot of new friends.

The audience was absolutely great !!! We, of course, tried to do our best on the stage. In my opinion a lot of very good bands played there. I’m so sad because this kind of belarussian fest can’t exist in Belarus, but from the other hand – belarussian fest abroad is a good thing, heh!

This cover was as an impulse, kind of coincidence. I was listening to Judas Priest in car during the way to the rehearsal room. Then I played some „Breaking the Law” ’s riffs and other Litvintrolls caught it, because we love old, good heavy metal. At the beginning we played this cover just for us, just for fun, but later we decided to play this cover in public. And now we always hear the voices from the audience „Breaking the law!!!” during our gigs, heh, we are Judas Priest too, not only Litvintroll, heh.... We were working with our debut album "Folk’n’Troll” for two years. We divided this time beetween writing songs, which was easier, and looking for musicians, who shared our point of view on folkmetal, and we found our music profile at last.

Gods Tower, a legendary belarussian metal band,  has revived recently, they are really great band! We have a lot of good young bands with very talented musicians, but we have a lot of problems with sound in the clubs. Summing up, we have good bands but we haven’t a good concert’s base.

This influence is invisible but still powerful, heh... E.g. recently we have recorded one acoustic track for our friends from Lublin, Poland. This track is very similar to Stary Olsa’s tracks, but we weren’t inspired by them, it was just natural!

That was great! At each concert always there were people, who knew our songs, our lyrics, we enjoyed it very much! This was a sign for us, that there weren’t random people. This summer we are going to play in Poland next time and I believe that once again we will experience Polish hospitality.

Yes, we played in Ukraine, Russia and Lithuania. Sometimes it happened the audience didn’t fill the whole concert’s room, but we always rocked people, this was a sign, that they enjoyed our music. It was a very rainy evening when we played at famous Lithuanian fest "Menuo Juodaragis”. All people escaped to tents but when we started to play, they came back under the stage and were headbanging and dancing pogo all our set!

So far we have made half of our new material, a part of it we have been playing on our gigs now. CD will be available in autumn 2011, I think. We are playing in Germany on 4 June at „Black Troll Fest” with Skyforger and Menhir and in Eastland on 13 August with Metsatoll. We are open to other concert propositions. We will inform about all of our gigs on our website.

We like very different music, not only folk and folkmetal, but we also like the greatest bands like Skyforger, In Extremo and Eluveitie. We like Dio, Type O Negative, In Flames, Darkwater, Sadist, Black Sabbath, Slayer, Opeth and more, more... We present our music fascinations on our last.fm profile. This is not a secret, that official Belarussian authorities are  still destroying national Belarussian culture and promoting Soviet-Union trends. That is why we base on our traditional, Belarussian culture, we try to discover it for people, we try to bring it to human’s hearts. We try to present the beauty of our traditional culture. We try to show that heathenism is not a dark, bloody cult, how some people perceive it, but heathenism is a life strongly connected with nature, with respect for ancestors and all form of life in the world.

Our official website is www.litvintroll.com, there we publish lyrics, in English too, and all important news and information about us. We have Belarussian, Polish, Russian and European distro, all info there.

Thanks, good luck!

Answers by Vasil Varabeichykau

Interviewed by Vilcin