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The Jewish Chronicle last week had a feature on a metal band called Skarthia, at least some of whose members are observant Jews. Apparently the singer got serious about the band while at yeshiva in Israel.
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Alarabiya has an intriguing story. Apparently a virus attacking Iran’s nuclear programme caused computers to play AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’. It reminds me of the story from the 1990s that an Israeli undercover army patrol replaced the call to prayer tape in …
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I’ll be giving a keynote lecture at this conference next year. It looks like it”s going to be a great event. No website for the conference yet but here’s the call for papers:
Heavy Metal and Popular Culture
April …
I’ve done a couple of interesting metal-related interviews for German media. Here’s the links:
This was posted on Shemspeed. If I was a drummer I would respond to this like a shot:
…This has to be the most epic Craigslist post we have ever seen.
JEWISH DRUMMER NEEDED-DOOM/BLACK/DEATH/WAR **METAL**
New metal band with
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I’ve been blogging about Jews and metal for a few years and at various points, people have mentioned to me a US Jewish metal band from the 1990s called Midbar. I’ve never been able to find much info about them …
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Earlier this week I posted a link to an amazing story about a female Iraqi anti-Islamic black metal band. Now it appears that the band may be a hoax. It’s not clear what the reality of the situation is, …
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…Unlike many of their nationally repressed and emerging, global counterparts (think: Indonesian headbangers, and Iraq-based Janaza!), Botswana bands fear no governmental scorn. Gunsmoke posed the question himself – “why should [we] be scared when our president is a rocker?” According
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