Formed in Montreal, Canada in early 1993, ZARAZA was born out of a meeting between newly arrived Polish immigrant Jacek (The DoomHammer) and local Montreal industrial noise mongrel Grzegorz Haus ov Doom. It was created to fully integrate the brutal low-end rumble of extreme doom/death metal with the high pierced shriek of intense true industrial. At the beginning it was intended to be more of a grind-core oriented project, but soon the two members' love for slow, pounding musical insanity enhanced ZARAZA's style by giving it a more doomy edge, combined with a bombastic symphonic industrial feel.

In this sad age, where unoriginality, commercialism and lack of vision seems to characterize a lot of the underground scene (especially on the industrial end of things, due largely to massive successes of more commercially sounding artists), the two members of ZARAZA decided it was crucial to create a new ugly blend of the most extreme and dark genres. The brutality of their music and it's often experimental character definitely place it at least a couple of notches above most bands in terms of originality, heaviness and intensity.

Due to the largely sampler-oriented nature of ZARAZA's music, the band performs live very rarely. It's most known live-show was during a special edition of the Montreal industrial show "Late Night Atrocity Exhibition". That night, in order to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the first concert of the almighty Laibach, ZARAZA performed four covers of that crucial band: "Vier Personen", "Leben Tod", "Krvava Gruda Plodna Zemlja" and of course "Nova Akropola".

After releasing their first demo "Life is Death Postponed" in 1995, received very positively in the underground, ZARAZA released its debut CD, entitled "Slavic Blasphemy" through the Ottawa-based Musicus Phycus record label. It consists of six songs: "24 Hours", "Zakazany", "Every Day Is A Funeral", "Necessary", "Cell Of Skin" and of course "Zaraza" (nearly 65 minutes of music). "Slavic Blasphemy" was released in 1997 and gathered a large number of positive reviews, including being listed as one of the Top 10 albums of 1998 by Gino Filicetti of Chronicles of Chaos webzine.

In 1999 the band recorded their second CD "No Paradise To Lose", which was supposed to include a bonus EP with 3 LAIBACH covers. However, lack of satisfaction with the final sound quality of the mixing process has led to a postponement of the album. All the original recordings were discarded and the resulting self-disgust resulted in the band going on hiatus till early 2002

The same year the band performed its one and only "true" live show by opening up for Knurl and Merzbow in Ottawa, Canada.

In 2002, ZARAZA re-started its activities and tackled once again the task of re-recording and remixing the entire "No Paradise To Lose" album from scratch. If all goes well it should be available in 2003.

November 18th 2003, the second CD "No Paradise To Lose" finally saw the light, containing 50 minutes of ugly, filthy, brutal experimental industrial doom death metal, compressed into 8 tracks: "Possessed by Skepticism","Nova Akropola" (LAIBACH cover), "Mark of the Infidel","Infliction","Planetary Re-Install","Znikad Donikad","Przeklinaj Smierc" and "Heart.ov.the.goat".