Rock music in Belarus
Belarusian rock has been developing since the early 1980s. The rock bands include Mroja (later renamed to N.R.M.), Kriwi, Lyapis Trubetskoy, Verasy, Open Space, Neuro Dubel, Accent, and Otrazhenie. Metal bands are Asguard and TT-34. Basovišča is a Belarusian rock music festival. Other festivals in the field were "Be Free" and "Rock-kola". Censorship. There is another side to Belarusian music life which is censorship. Researchers Maya Medich and Lemez Lovas reported in 2006 that "independent music-making in Belarus today is an increasingly difficult and risky enterprise", and that the Belarusian government "puts pressure on  ‘unofficial’ musicians - including ‘banning’ from official media and imposing severe restrictions on live performance." In a video interview on freemuse.org the two authors explain the mechanisms of censorship in Belarus (Freemuse.org). Another black list became known in 2011, when Krama, Krambambula, Lyapis Trubetskoy, N.R.M., Naka, Palats, Neuro Dubel among others were banned from performing concerts in Belarus. Notable bands. Alternative rock: Black metal: Christian rock: Death metal: Doom metal: Post-metal: Folk rock: Folk rock VIA: Hard rock/Heavy metal: Indie rock: Pop rock: Punk rock: Rapcore: