Litvintroll began in 2005 with vocalist and bagpiper Andrei Apanovich and drummer Sjarhei Tapcheusky who at the time were – and still are – members of Stary Olsa. Their vision of playing driving medieval music was shared by another bagpiper and a percussionist. The lineup lasted for a year, appearing at numerous shows and medieval culture festivals. However, their unspent energies still required an outlet, which finally led to changes in the band’s style, lineup and philosophy.

A year was spent working on songs, playing shows and searching for kindred spirits. The musicians brought into the band as a result shared both an attraction to rock and roll and reverence for the traditions of their people, as well as the desire to intertwine the plangent, powerful sound of the medieval bagpipes, which had filled the hearts of our ancestors with the fire of fearlessness, with the roar of electric guitars, and the belief that from time immemorial, our Earth has been home to the trolls who have skillfully hidden from human eyes, yet have never taken theirs off us.

Work on the band’s debut album had continued into a second year. The effort was included several loose renditions of Belarusian folk songs and even looser variations on medieval European and modern American songs telling stories of the hard lives of vagrant musicians, and wood-trolls, mountain-trolls and other kinds of trolls. However, the main thing the band are trying to convey in their music is an atmosphere of reckless fun that the creatures who inspired the album like to have so much. After all, the trolls are not essentially evil, just somewhat rough and uncouth.

Soon after release of the album the band has had heavy losses: to serve in army the drummer has left, and the guitarist has moved to Ukraine. The vacant place behind drums was occupied with Aliaxey Jafremenka , and Pavel Alenchyk undertook a guitar. In such line-up Litvintroll has played some gigs in Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania. At the end of the 2009 year Mikola Sharangovich has released from duty drummer Alex Jafremenka and Andrei Harchakou replaced Dzianis Vjachersky at the keyboards. Now trolls work over a new material.