Artist Melechesh
Title As Jerusalem Burns AlIntisar
Format LP
Label Night Of The Vinyl Dead
Release Year 2015
Genre BLACK
Country Italy
Print Limited 499 copies
CatalogueNumber NIGHT 214
Description:
Black vinyl with insert and logo stencil

Both historically and aesthetically, Melecheshs debut album,1996's As Jerusalem Burns AIntisar, never really meshed with therespected Israeli heavy metal band's remaining musical output andoverall career vision -- a fusion of extreme heavy metal with theIsrael-birthed group's Middle Eastern heritage, which only achievedtruly life-changing fruition some five years later with the releaseof 2001's sophomore effort, Djinn. For now, Melechesh's songs werelargely rooted in the European black metal aesthetic (seefeverishly blastbeaten offerings like Hymn to Gibil, Baphomet'sLust, and Devil's Night, as well as the more measured, melodic,Rotting Christ-recalling Planetary Rites), and even Al'Intisar`ssubject matter (the title itself is Arabic for the victory)followed suit by choosing religious confrontation over the morethought-provoking cultural and mythological studies still to come.Sure, Melechesh were already peppering exotic drum patterns andriff sequences across any number of songs contained here (includingthe opening Sultan of Mischief, the progressively minded titletrack, and the instrumental Dance of the Black Genii, with itsnative percussion instruments and haunting wailing), yet,ironically, these often sounded about as convincingly Arabian asthe average Western band feigning the most obvious Eastern musicalcliches. Regardless of all that, though, As Jerusalem BurnsAlIntisar was already an impressively well-crafted and maturecollection of songs, indicative of Melecheshs future blossominginto one of the extreme metal world's most intriguing and rewardingpropositions.

Track listing:
1. Intro
2. Sultan Of Mischief
3. Assyrian Spirit
4. Planetary Rites
5. Hymn To Gibil
6. The Sorcerers Of Melechesh
7. Dance Of The Black Genii
8. Baphomets Lust
9. Devils Night
10. As Jerusalem Burns AlIntisar

Condition cover: nm

Condition vinyl: nm

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