Origin: Serbia
Formed: 2006
Location: Apatin, West Bačka, Vojvodina
Genre: Black Metal
Status: Split‑up (2016)
Label: Blackest Ink Recordings
Themes: Slavic Paganism (early); Misanthropy, Depression, Death (later)
Samrt—named after the archaic Serbian word for “the moment of dying”—was one of the most emotionally severe and thematically transformative black‑metal projects to emerge from Vojvodina in the late 2000s. Founded in 2006 in Apatin, the band began with a Slavic‑pagan orientation before shifting into a far darker, more introspective realm: misanthropy, self‑destruction, and the psychological gravity of death.
Their early demo Пољуби ме мајко одлазим у смрт (2007) (“Kiss Me Mother, I Am Leaving for Death”) already hinted at the band’s later direction—raw, sorrow‑laden, and steeped in fatalism. The 2009 split Perversion and Desaster / Пољуби ме мајко одлазим у смрт circulated their name further through the underground.
Samrt’s defining statement arrived in 2012 with the full‑length Mizantrop mazohist, a bleak, emotionally corrosive album that fused traditional black‑metal aggression with depressive atmospheres and deeply personal lyrical themes. It remains one of the more distinctive Serbian DSBM‑leaning releases of the era. Their final output, the 2015 single Sanjao sam svoju smrt (“I Dreamed My Own Death”), closed the project’s arc with stark finality.
The band dissolved in 2016, leaving behind a compact but potent discography that traces a clear evolution from pagan roots to existential collapse.
Nekrst – Guitars, Vocals (2006–2016)
Endarken
The project’s founder and primary creative force, responsible for Samrt’s shift toward depressive and misanthropic themes.
Demonetras – Bass, Guitars, Vocals (2008–2016)
Kozeljnik (live), May Result, ex‑Besomar, ex‑Murder (live), ex‑The Stone, ex‑Bane (live)
A prolific figure whose presence added technical depth and scene connectivity.