Iranian Metal

Incomplete spotify playlist here:
http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/60M2VRgmokDR1wVbC5YoQD

Despite the crackdowns, as recently as 2007, 3,000 fans could be expected to show up for shows such as the one per- formed by the band SDS at the University of Tehran, even though it wasn’t allowed to perform with vocals. “We were not allowed to headbang or even stand up,” one fan present ex- plained to me. “It was ‘metal theater,’ not a metal concert,” continued Pooya, one of the founders of the scene who did the first, and to this day one of the only, public metal concerts with vocals. “Everyone had to sit politely. At one gig, at Elm-o- San’at (Science and Industry) University, we managed to play for forty minutes before the basij tried to force us to stop. They weren’t supposed to enter the university. So they drove up to the front and started roaring their motorcycles, and the man- ager of the place begged us to stop. We were the last metal concert with vocals.”

Even without vocals, explained another musician, when bands played classic death-metal anthems, like the songs from Slayer’s classic 1986 album Reign in Blood, “the whole crowd would fucking explode with headbanging, nobody could control them. They’d go so wild, you know? Needless to say, the next gig was canceled, because the whole thing was about control, and we were out of their control. We were ar- rested and charged with satanism.”

I probably should've just bumped Middle East metal instead of starting a new thread lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh7wi41acdk

any iranian doom?

1000 Funerals, Cold Cry, Frequency of Butterfly Wings, Necromimesis, and Sounds of Pain are all supposedly doom however I cannot vouch for any of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHBwsArrwFM

better not be nu-metal

Farzad Golpayegani is closest so far to what I was hoping for when I started looking for Iranian metal - strong folk Iranian + slight maqam influences aka Iranian folk metal! (and some shredding) -- what I really want to find is some Iranian metal is female vox....

hmmmm it was all ambient no guitars hehe

sorry :( try some of the others?

ot but why is encyclopedia metallum the slowest website in the world??

server problems recently

apparently 5grs is what i'm looking for re female vox:
http://blog.mideastunes.com/post/14938025172/interview-with-5grs-first-iranian-metal-band-with

I actually dug that youtube despite it obv being an intro track but id be shocked if they werent a funeral doom band and I intend on checking them out further

yeah funeral doom. theyre covering a good funeral doom bands song here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr5-Kyp6qm8

clarke b will be interested in this band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e47k5KgPnCM

i like when they embed traditional compositions in the song

ilx needs more iranians

mordy have you got any more youtubes or spotify links?

holla

oh i finally got a 5grs album to check out

What kinda stuff is it?

Mordy you are lucky I have the time these days to check out all these bands. Any happen to be on spotify?

This should be a series of threads -- Afghani Metal has recently taken off...

mordy likes it when metal is mixed with traditional instruments

viceroy I posted a spotify playlist w all the bands I could find above

nice d/n viceroy!

mordy what did you think of that 1000 Funerals album?

a little boring imo. i've been digging this Arsames - Immortal Identity album tho which is on spotify and also makes me wish i called this thread Persian Metal instead

i'm wracking my brain trying to remember how to say "metal" in farsi. the closest i can get is "iron".

in the end 5grs were a little too amateur and not original enough for my tastes.

all the farzad golpayegani albums (numbers one thru six) are great tho, prog folk metal. this track i love:

http://open.spotify.com/track/4ruveLPYhBUgCImnUW79oV

viceroy have u gotten a chance to check any of these out? what did u think?

he was without internet for a few days i think

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very cool - Massive Scar Era's EP from last year is on Spotify and it's pretty great!