Hiperbolė were a Lithuanian rock band formed in 1974 in Vilnius by Viktoras Prapras and Ričardas Bartusevičius.
In 1974, two students from Vilnius Institute of Civil Engineering, Viktoras Prapras and Ričardas Bartusevičius formed a musical group.
At first, they played music created by the Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Deep Purple and few songs of their own.
Later on, the quality of the performance of the band improved and eventually it was noticed by the Culture Department of the Center Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party.
Soon the band faced strong Soviet censorship, which became much stronger after the self-immolation of Romas Kalanta in 1972.
The group’s sound was influenced by contemporary psychedelic, folk and progressive rock bands such The Beatles, CCR, The Doors and Led Zeppelin; clean, mid-tempo guitar melodies were often accompanied by mellow, unadorned drumbeats.
Some of the songs’ lyrics came at odds with the socialist realist genre propagated in Soviet art at the time as they were rooted in natural symbolism and romanticism.