BLACK METAL THAT’S TR00 J00?
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 at 3:37pm by Axl Rosenberg
Reader Josh Kidd just tipped us off to the existence of an Israeli black metal band called Dagor Dagorath. And I, uh, actually can’t tell if they’re really Jews or not. For one thing, there are other Israeli black metal outfits with no Jews (see: Melechesh), and for another thing, Wikipedia tells me that “Dagor Dagorath” is ” is a fictional battle described in the legendarium of J. R. R. Tolkien.” (And, yes, I did have to look it up. I am indeed a dork about many things, but Tolkien bores me to tears.) So, nothing Jewey about that.
I also Wikipedia‘d (it can be a verb, right?) the name of DD’s new album, Yetzer Ha’Ra, and it does have Jewish connotations:
In Judaism, yetzer hara (Hebrew: יצר הרע for “evil inclination”) refers to the inclination to do evil, by violating the will of God. The yetzer hara is not a demonic force, but rather man’s mis-use of things the physical body needs to survive. So the need for food becomes gluttony due to our yetzer hara. The need for procreation becomes sexual abuse. . .and so on. Judaism teaches that humans are born with a yetzer hara (physical needs that can become “evil”), but that we don’t acquire a yetzer tov (”good” inclination) until an age of maturity — 12 for girls and 13 for boys.
So, um, yeah. That’s actually kind of an interesting philosophical concept, no matter where it comes from.
But the music. Have to remind myself sometimes that it’s about the music! Yeah, the band sounds pretty decent. Check out their MySpace page and decide for yourself.
-AR
He has skulls at the end of his stumps… metal!
i’m totally into Muslim death metal. it’s t00 fucking br00tal!! every song is the sound of some guy going “yeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeye” like xena the warrior princess, then the sound of an explosion. the song titles are killer too. some classics are “blowing up the infidel base”, “blowing up the infidel church”, “blowing up the infidel car” and “blowing up the infidels”. that fucking shit is fucking metal as fucking fuck.
Dumb stereotypes are METAL AS FUCK
they fucking rip hard!!!
That was funny.
How gay is it that all these bands use Lord of the Rings for dark sounding names?
how many bands can we list that have actually done this?
ill start off with an easy one: Amon Amarth
Burzum!
Shagrath from Dimmu Borgir also.
Why do you care so much if they are jews?
Even searching wikipedia for clues. That’s pretty weird
Bob, look at the names of the writers of this blog….
I’m from norway, but I never checked if Al Jourgensen has norwegian roots. (Until now, and he has a norwegian stepdad)
Maybe it’s a jewish thing
Points for the Wikipedia verbage. I been tellin’ people that for years.
All I know is that because of this post I can look up Jewish singles because of the Google advert to the left. Maybe I can find one that likes L00therans.
on their myspace page you can see the lead singer wearing “Tefillin” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefilin which orthodox jews wear everyday
why does it matter if they’re jews or not? and they probably are if their album is called “Yetzer Ha’ra” which in hebrew means “The Bad Seed”, it’s a name of a book in the jewish bible that speaks about satan and shit
Dude did you not read the actual post
Dude, “Yetzer Hara” doesn’t translate to bad seed, and there’s no book in the bible speaking about Satan and shit (and there’s no book called yetzer hara altogether). Fact.
Metal RooLZ!!!
-15 Jewish points for having to wiki a Hebrew phrase.