#middle eastern metal

[defiledcasket]

and here we have some more black metal which I swear is something I'm not obsessed with and don't post about too much. this one's got an eastern esoteric sort of theme going on with a bit of instrumentals and melodies to match. links at bottom of post!

featured artists: Melechesh, Al-Namrood, Darkestrah, Nightbringer, Order of Orias & Arallu

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[gbhbl]

EP Review: Dialith - Alter (Self Released)

Connecticut based symphonic power metal band, Dialith, are back with a brand new EP titled Alter, due for release on the 5th of April. Dialith is an epic symphonic power metal band from Danbury, Connecticut. Formed in 2015, Dialith made an impact with their 2019 debut album, Extinction Six. Blending epic orchestral arrangements with enrapturing melodeath riffs, Dialith aims to breathe new life…

[metalhead-brainrot]

[Album of the day] Ethereal Sands - From Dust To Stone

Aubagne, FRA || 2024

[Genres] industrial metal, post metal, prog metal

[Themes] Middle Eastern metal

[FFO] Nile,* Akhenaten

[Thoughts] The most recent of many projects by Kosm, whom I know from a free Weedian** release: Bong of Nothingness - Space Datura (instrumental stoner doom).

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* Other relevant posts.

** WEEDIAN's page || a post where I talk about them

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[arthistoryanimalia]

#MetalMonday:

Silver Ram’s Head Rhyton, c. 700-600 BCE, from Ziwiye (Iran)

On display at Penn Museum

Read more about this piece here:

[museum-archives]

Box

ARTIST: Artist unrecorded

DATE: 20th century

PLACE MADE: Historic Palestine, Middle East/West Asia, Asia

MEDIUM: Silver

[angeltannis]

Been listening a lot to this CD I got brand new and sealed for $1 at the charity shop a few weeks ago… Welcome to the Downside by Speak No Evil… it’s really good and high quality music!! But it seems like they dropped off the face of the earth after this album. I’ve been trying to find some more info about it, and I found out that this album, which is HEAVILY critical of the US government, came out in August of 2001… I wonder if that had anything to do with it…

[chusssmusic]

Listen/purchase: El Ashya Ma3dan (Things Are Metal) by chusss - The Visitor

[bitchfitch]

normally i have a pretty easy time with first drafts of Characters. but i fucking hate Gier's now that I'm not exhausted and a Teensy bit off my shits, and I'm not even going to post the first draft of Maalik's bc they came out so bad.

I'm going to give them both another shot tonight tho and i might just ditch full body designs and figure out their faces first.

[cavedwellermusic]

Levantine Week Day 2: Zalaam - Bottomless Black Hole

Each month CDM spends a week looking at the music of a specific country or region that we believe deserves more attention. This month we have chosen to look at the music of the diverse region known as the Levant, covering music from multiple countries.

For day 2 of Levantine Week we turn to Palestine, where Sidney looked at the great sophomore record of one man project Zalaam. Skilfully walking the line between raw, depressive atmosphere and surprisingly uplifting instrumentals, Zalaam translated the lived experience of some truly extreme and horrifying conditions to music. Bottomless Black Hole is a tour deforce demonstrating that the DIY ethos of black metal is alive and well.

[pippisevilthrallsummoningblog]

I JUST GOT THE BEST RANDOM IDEA EVER!

My imagination is vivid and listening awhile back, that thought popped in my head. Why? The peyote scene in Beavis and Butthead do America and my joke about putting my foot in my mouth only to trip off the fungus! later (communication as the sign of communicative duality ,♊ is...✍️😤🤌)

I see the song as Dead eats the pastry, the fungus, bacteria, or bad cooking skills start an acid-like trip and by the la-la-la-la part, it gets all trippy. The "JOIN US" would kick off the real visuals too with semlor, dark spirits, even the full moon being one, taunting his flight through the woods!

At the end, Dead wakes up on the floor looking hungover, there's that semla, and there's the trash.

It was too good not to share!

[vvitchgrindergeneral]

Melechesh /// Rebirth of the Nemesis (Enuma Elish Rewritten)

Lla Tchaf Lla min Tiamat Enuma Elish is re-written

[ragingsteel666-blog]

"Sahara"ORPHANED LAND

1994年に本作でもってデビューしてきた時、このバンドは局所的ながらかなりのセンセーションを呼んでいたように思う。イスラエル出身というだけでも異例なのに、比較対象が見当たらないこの音楽性。中近東メロディの導入は、部分的であればそれまでも決して珍しくはなかったのだが、それを全編に配してヘヴィメタルとなると、確かに類すらも見なかった。

ただそれゆえに、当時特に某誌においては少々小難しそうなバンドとして紹介されてしまった感がある。言うまでもなく中近東のメロディに小難しい要素など微塵もないし、理解できたから偉いというほどでもない。基本は構築主義のデス／スラッシュメタルであり、そうした音としての完成度の高さに見るべきところがある。基本、ピュアなメタルヘッズ向けのバンドだ。カッコイイと思うよ！

[sonic-emporium]

My eyes wide shut, jumping in the void Falling so fast I touched the ground Not a solution, just an escape I might awaken again

At least I have tried Made all I can Tried to fit the frame Incorporate the game

I never could incorporate this frame, and I know I can run, but never find the way out of here

Make up every lie, even when you're right Could not make it right Give up who I am

I never could incorporate this frame, and I know I can run, but never find the way

I never could incorporate this frame, and I know I can run, but never find the way out of here

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TwoForTuesday at the Penn Museum:

1. garment decorations, Tepe Hissar (Iran), c. 2300 BCE, gold.

“These striking gold appliques in the shape of a ram's head would have been secured to clothing through the holes pierced around their edge.”

2. goat heads, possibly Fara (Iraq), c. 2475-2300 BCE, copper alloy, shell, limestone.

“These heads were cast in copper and inlaid with shell and colored limestone. The powerful corkscrew horns capture the majesty of a wild markhor mountain goats.”

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Lacuna Coil - Our Truth 2006

"Our Truth" is the first single by Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil from their fourth studio album Karmacode. The song was also featured on the soundtrack to Underworld: Evolution, and the games Rock Band Unplugged, Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Revolution (this one uses a cover version). It was a Top 30 Active Rock single on the Billboard Charts. Lyrically, the song delves into denying and forgetting one's past by creating a new truth as time goes by.

Karmacode has a more prominent Middle-Eastern sound compared with Lacuna Coil's previous releases. A shamisen, a Japanese string instrument, is featured in the opening and ending of "Our Truth" and a faint sitar can be heard during the verses. The music video was nominated for the "Best Group Video" category at the Italian Premio Videoclip Italiano.

"Our Truth" received a total of 80,1% yes votes!