Ashmedi biography sample
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“It pisses me off when I see people from South America, Australia, Florida, or the Middle East trying to pretend they’re Vikings.
Ashmedi biography sample
I respect Norse mythology — I’m a cosmopolitan person. But you also have a rich culture. Try to celebrate that.”
So says Ashmedi, founder and frontman of Melechesh, a black metal band from East Jerusalem and an advocate for aggressive localism in metal.
From their lo-fi debut, 1995’s As Jerusalem Burns, to their most recent full-length album, 2006’s Emissaries, Melechesh has eschewed the hyperborean visions of black metal’s Scandinavian wing, preferring equally harrowing legends drawn from the region’s pre-pre-Islamic past.
The group also incorporates elements of Middle Eastern vernacular music into its sound, especially the baladi and malfuf rhythms (mainstays of Arab pop and Egyptian dance tracks, as well as belly dance music).
And their songs, at times, present distorted versions of melodies that have long signified “the Ori