Babylon Awaits release their debut EP “Foundations” as a free download, the ep is also available for online listening.
BA is an industrial/alternative/metal band that combines live guitars, vocals and growling with electronic beats and synths.
Tracklist:
Check out this promo vid, and visit the band’s website to get a free digital copy of the new ep.
Zoltan Bathory, the guitarist and primal songwriter of Five Finger Death Punch arrived to the USA in the middle ’90s from Hungary. A decade of perseverance led him to start a band, which sold 400, 000 units off their debut album. But the story isn’t that easy. 5FDP really keeps the metal in the true form, without compromising the rawness mixing with powerful melodies. Now they attack with the sophomore LP called „War Is The Answer” and Zoltan explaines us what it’s all about…
While the prices of the bronze and silver area has been reduced as well as the seats in the balcony, most fans are still not happy for the price of the golden ring tickets that has been reduced to 990 shekels ($263), Their argument is that there are no differences between rich people and others in the Israeli metal scene.
We all want the chance to see Metallica in the first row or at least have an equal chance to get there as any other person who can afford to buy a ticket to the golden ring. That is the essence of a metal show and the producer doesn’t understand it.
That is why other fans who believe that the first boycott hadn’t reached the goals and as the producer said that the prices might change after couple of weeks, had decided to establish a new group in Facebook.
They hope to get more reasonable price that first boycott organizers hadn’t gotten and to recruit the same amount of people as the first boycott or even more.
As they are declaring we want to bring back the prices that every simple metal fan from young age can afford.
The iconic Metallica is scheduled for a May 22 appearance in the Ramat Gan stadium but producer Marcel Avram is charging no less than 600 shekel for the cheapest seats (around $159 according to today’s exchange rate) while floor seats are twice that price.
Israeli metal fans are livid at the insult and have already banded together on Facebook to initiate a boycott of the show. Over 540 fans have already committed to boycotting the show.
The initiators of the boycott state that Metallica tickets do not cost nearly as much as this in the rest of the world and assert that the promoter is trying to take advantage of loyal Metallica fans. They propose that tickets should cost from 300 – 600 shekel depending on the quality of seat – prices that are still high for the Israeli metal scene – international bands come to Israel all the time and tickets generally run from the 175-250 range.
Metal Israel has now become a part of the Musical Pact Alliance.
Each month, I submit an mp3 to the Musical Pact Alliance which will then be posted as the Israeli representative on that month’s MAP post including dozens of other countries posted on all of the participating blogs – like this: CLICK HERE
That means three things.
1. Each ISRAELI band who wants to be considered for this – please, in the comments below, post a link to the mp3 you want to submit. The link to your mp3 must be a hotlink (i.e. instantly downloadable by right-clicking and saving). Do not send me anything on Shabbat or I will automatically not consider it and don’t even mess w/ me – Shabbat means Friday night after shkiya to when three stars are up on Motzash.
2. there will be a vote on Metal Israel!!!! The three songs that I like the best will have the links posted on Metal Israel in order to be voted upon by friends and fans. I will get some sort of polling software plugin and of course, one can always leave comments on the post.
3. for March, I’m already submitting Orphaned Land’s “Sapari” so you have time for April. Each month, the contest will be held. And if you submit a track next month and don’t win, it is still in the running for months ahead.
This is a huge chance for international exposure. There is even an upcoming article on the Musical Pact Alliance in Britain’s The Guardian – link will be posted when I see it.
Does everyone understand? Please comment below with any questions.
Chasidish metal act Teihu does the traditional “Achashverosh” hymn. 
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You don’t know what you can find until you travel with Orphaned Land on the “Neverending Way of ORWarriOR,” a sonic tapestry that flies a completely different path than the usual Western metal fare of Europe and the States, though for sure, there are common threads. The influences of acts like Paradise Lost, Iron Maiden and the Beatles are evident. But this latest effort, released on premier metal label Century Media, weaves elements together that run the gamut from blacker-than-black demonic intensity to let-the-sunshine-in hippie flamboyance. Israeli bands tend to be perfectionist in their creations and the Neverending Way of ORWarriOR took seven years to release for a reason, proven in the disc’s polish, quality and virtuoso artistry. Orphaned Land’s signature sound successfully blends the wealth of the Arabic musical genre’s unique melodies and odd-time styles into a solid metal and progressive rock basis that’s already won critical acclaim worldwide – but wait ’til they get a load of this one, which they will due to OL’s heavy touring schedule in Europe and the States this year.
The impressive classical guitar and string instrument skills of Yossi “Sasson” Sa’aron can set any burgeoning guitarist’s creativity ablaze. Vocalist Kobi Farhi spins tales with his style range, and the rhythm section of bassist Uri Zilha and Matti Svatizky wield the impeccably matched backbone of this Israeli band, who categorizes itself as “Middle Eastern metal” with dreams of instilling peace through their music.
Check them out here: http://orphaned-land.com.
Eyal Levi and Emil Werstler of Daath and Sean Reinert of Cynic (ex-Death) have created a metal-based instrumental project swathed in classical sensibilities flirting with almost every musical genre known to mankind – well, the ones that don’t suck. It’s like Black Sabbath meets Beethoven meets B.B. King in a majestic aural tale-spinning onslaught.
The way the Levi/Werstler track Dura Mater is crafted together with a contrast of subtlety and all out in-your-face musical impact for some reason brings to my mind the demonic visual mastery of the car crash scene in Final Destination II – a tail-spinning onslaught.
It’s freaking awesome. Go listen. Check it out here. Interview with Eyal Levi forthcoming in the near future bezrat Hashem.
…and I just found out my friend, the prolific Maor Appelbaum, is the one who mastered this new album and I’m very, very impressed. .
קין והבל 90210 אלו להקת מטאל ישראלית השרה רק בעברית אומנם היא לא מוכרת להרבה אנשים לעומת שאר להקות במדינת ישראל אך נותנים בראש.
חברי הלהקה הם יונתן השילוני – גיטרה חשמלית ושירה שאול לוריא – בס חשמלית ושירה איתמר לוי – תופים ושירה
ניתן למצוא מידע נוסף עליהם במייספייס:
http://www.myspace.com/cainandable90210
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvoAVXmhSPA