"Zazerkalie has always gravitated toward transforming life into an ancient Roman theater, experimenting with the forms and content of the contemporary underground, blending backyard and soldier folk with art noir in a daring way.

Psychedelic, pseudo-Nietzschean texts with subtle mockery of domestic conspiracy, images of romantic and sentimental literature of the century before last are synthesized with odious musical genres such as post-punk, synth-punk, electro-punk, industrial, synth-pop and darkwave.

[4] But having paid tribute to numerous genre experiments, the band gravitated to a simple form of synthesis of punk music with Russian chanson, such sound was largely determined by the characteristic vocal of Alexander Skrynnikov.

[5][6] In 1994, Oleg Gaponov and Ivan Trofimov, the future leader of the band "Запрещённые барабанщики" (Zapreshchonnyye barabanshchiki), organized a regional branch of the National Bolshevik Party in Rostov-on-Don.

[7] In January 2008, the audio-visual drama "Bright Light" created by the group Zazerkalie and the animation artist Yuri Bessmertny was presented in Rostov-on-Don.