Baltak

Baltak
Baltak
Origin	Sydney, NSW
Genres	Black metal
Years active	1995 - 2010
Labels	Battlegod
Associated acts	Avathalor, Buio Omega
Members	Gorgoroth
Past members	Alexander, Lord Aerveron

Band members

Line up
- Gorgoroth (vocals, guitar, bass, programming)

Former members
- Alexander (bass)
- Lord Aerveron (drums)

Band information

Baltak was a Sydney-based black metal vehicle for Gorgoroth. The band name is taken from the Macedonian word for a battle-axe and all of Baltak's albums deal almost exclusively with Macedonian history. In keeping with this, the lyrics are also in Macedonian.

Baltak's sound on the first few albums is extreme symphonic war metal. In 1999, Gorgorth spent time in Europe and collaborated with Italian band Mortifier on the Buio Omega project. Kral Na Dva Svetoj was released in 2000 and Gorgoroth joined Canberra black metal band Avathalor as bass player while continuing to work on further Baltak releases. He left Australia in 2002 with a view to continuing Baltak in Europe; while there he completed another Buio Omega album. Back in Australia a fourth Baltak album, Makedonski Boj, was released the first since the debut to utilise a real drummer. The 2004 single release is a limited edition vinyl issue featuring previously unavailable material.

After an eight-year hiatus, Baltak was resurrected briefly in mid-2010.