youtube's full of clips of Iranian metal bands. 5 minutes of searching: http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=-GeKMyU9Z_A&feature=related http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=SBaGuwUphKw&feature=related http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=cH3bDGJF9x0 Can't say I'm much into thrash or death metal, but interesting all the same. Adit.
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:44 PM, ashok _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > http://chronicle. com/weekly/ v54/i43/43b00801 .htm > > Muslim Metal > > > > > > The first time I heard the words "heavy metal" and "Islam" in the same > > sentence, I was confused, to say the least. It was around 5 p.m. on a hot > > July day in the city of Fez, Morocco. I was at the bar of a five-star > hotel > > with a group of friends having a drink — at $25 a piece, only one — to > > celebrate a birthday. The person sitting across from me described a punk > > performance he had seen in Rabat not long before we had met. > > My favourite of this genre is the Algerian rai/punk rock artiste > Rachid Taha. >
