Because of the band's avant-garde sound and image, its Christian leanings and support for Macedonian self-determination, they were viewed with certain degree of suspicion by the former authorities.
Mizar were formed in 1981 in Skopje as an instrumental trio of Gorazd Čapovski on guitar, Valentin Zabjakin on bass and Panta Dzambazoski on drums.
In 1985, when the members of Mizar returned from the army, Čapovski attempted to form a band called Inola-X with Vrtev, but it didn't work out.
They started to use elements of the traditional Macedonian folklore and Byzantine music blended with post-punk, darkwave and gothic rock.
Between October and December 1990, the band recorded their second album, Svjat Dreams, releasing it on 7 September 1991, the day before Macedonia split from Yugoslavia.
Tanevski got involved in organising concerts, Kaevski restored his old band Kiborg, while Čapovski left for Australia.
There he formed Kismet in 1993 which is considered a sort of continuation of Mizar's work because the musical style was similar.
In 1999, Serafimovski and Tanevski reissued Mizar on CD under the title Svedožba, with bonus demo and live tracks, including a never-before-heard darker version of the song "Svjat Dreams" recorded in 1989 with Tanevski on all instruments and two unreleased live tracks, "Čifte Čamče" and "Samo eden mig".
Two years later the first two albums of Mizar were re-released on CD solely for the Macedonian market, but the record quickly spread across the countries of former Yugoslavia.
Mizar was reunited in early 2003 with their former member Goran Trajkoski as a vocalist, with whom, first they released the single Macedonian: "Почесна Стрелба" (Gun Salute).
festival), Zadar (Maya Pub), Split (O'Hara Club), Dubrovnik (Lazareti) and in the beginning of November they visited Serbia and Montenegro playing in Pančevo, Belgrade and Kragujevac.
In the beginning of November that year Mizar played in Belgrade and announced their new album featuring Tanevski as a vocalist.
Šarena Krava returns the band to its punk rock roots, removing all traditional Macedonian instruments and patriotic lyrical themes.
Harmosini has been replaced with Jana Burčeska, the second female singer in the history of Mizar since Nora Stojanovic's brief tenure with the band in 1991.
Besides influences such as Joy Division for instance, Mizar also uses elements of traditional Macedonian folklore and Byzantine music.