Батюшка (Batushka) is a Polish black metal band which formed in 2015 in Białystok. Their lyrics are written in Church Slavonic, the conservative Slavic liturgical language used by the Eastern Orthodox Church. Pronounced "batyushka," the band's name means "father" and is used to address an Orthodox priest. Their songs contain lines of liturgical chanting paired with black metal instrumentation. In the spring of 2015, multi-instrumentalist Krzysztof Drabikowski, aka Derph, was listening to Orthodox music on YouTube.