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• Metal used as a weapon?

  3 August, 2012

  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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• Great Jewish metal band advert

  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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• Midbar – the first Jewish metal album

  27 July, 2012

  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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• My latest piece for Souciant: ‘No Hipster Metal Here’

  

  I’ve spent years trying to convince the world of metal’s radical potential. I’ve followed the obscure byways of obscure extreme metal genres in search of the avant-grade potential of this most degraded form. My heart has swelled with satisfaction as

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• Female Iraqi anti-Islamic black metal band a hoax?

  18 July, 2012

  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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• Excellent article on anti-Islamic black metal within Islamic countries

  13 July, 2012

  

  via theatlantic.com

  Read this.

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• Heavy Metal is the New Patriotism in Botswana, Africa. | Geodissonance | Metal Injection

  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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• Botswanan Metal on CNN Inside Africa

  2 July, 2012

  CNN’s Inside Africa programme has a story this week on Botswanan Metal. I haven’t caught it yet but it’s repeated several times during the week. I’ve had an interest in Botswanan metal for a while and I hope to visit …

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• Shout outs and recommendations

  15 June, 2012

  This is very belated, but I wanted to recommend a couple of online articles that engage and contest with my ideas on metal. I don’t have time unfortunately to respond to them properly but the least I can do is …

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• Slayer and Me – my new piece for Souciant (including embarassing anecdote)

  

  It wasn’t the first time I’ve seen Slayer live. As a metal fan for over twenty years  it’s been hard to avoid seeing them, given the frequency with which they tour. Nor would I want to avoid seeing them. They

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