Artist: Salem
Album: Kaddish
Release: 1994
Label: Morbid
Tracklist:
1. The Fading
2. Above The Ground
3. Eyes To Match A Soul
4. Kaddish
5. Fear Of The Future
6. Dying Embers
7. Desert Prayer
8. The Edge Of The Void
9. Ha'ayara Bo'eret
10. The One That No One Knows
In the mid-80s, Salem were the first remotely extreme musical group to ever come out of Israel. As time and trends progressed, so did they, evolving from the crude stylings of early demos like Destruction Til Death to the fiery black/death metal sounds of Creating Our Sins. Despite being Jews, dudes were broing down with none other than Euronymous, who was pretty set on releasing an album before his future murderer and then-Nazi Varg Vikernes heard Salem weren't so hep on Hitler and sent singer Ze'ev Tananboim a nailbomb.
Kaddish is named after a Jewish prayer for the dead. But don't mistake this for a religious album. This record is a slow, dark trudge. Guitars articulate just enough melody and then ring out under the inimitably pained vocals of Tananboim. Then the band shifts into mid-tempo to whip the trudge into a march, but the destination remains the same: a wallowing in the overwhelming feeling that must occur when everything and everyone around you is torn away. "Cry out for one soul," shrieks Tananboim in "Eyes To Match A Soul," "The only one that could ever hear/Only one whose ears are brave/Enough to listen to the beat of a heart."
Perhaps most powerful is "Ha'ayara Bo'eret," a Jewish folk song reflecting on the Holocaust. Drummer Amir Neubach beautifully intones the initial verses, but then leaves the rest to Tananboim, who shrieks as if a part of him died with those he sings for.
Regardless of your religious/political outlook, this record is essential listening if you dig music of heavy and doomish persuasions. And no, haha, I swear this isn't a response to Adam's Muslimgauze post.
Download Here
-Asa
Album: Kaddish
Release: 1994
Label: Morbid
Tracklist:
1. The Fading
2. Above The Ground
3. Eyes To Match A Soul
4. Kaddish
5. Fear Of The Future
6. Dying Embers
7. Desert Prayer
8. The Edge Of The Void
9. Ha'ayara Bo'eret
10. The One That No One Knows
In the mid-80s, Salem were the first remotely extreme musical group to ever come out of Israel. As time and trends progressed, so did they, evolving from the crude stylings of early demos like Destruction Til Death to the fiery black/death metal sounds of Creating Our Sins. Despite being Jews, dudes were broing down with none other than Euronymous, who was pretty set on releasing an album before his future murderer and then-Nazi Varg Vikernes heard Salem weren't so hep on Hitler and sent singer Ze'ev Tananboim a nailbomb.
Kaddish is named after a Jewish prayer for the dead. But don't mistake this for a religious album. This record is a slow, dark trudge. Guitars articulate just enough melody and then ring out under the inimitably pained vocals of Tananboim. Then the band shifts into mid-tempo to whip the trudge into a march, but the destination remains the same: a wallowing in the overwhelming feeling that must occur when everything and everyone around you is torn away. "Cry out for one soul," shrieks Tananboim in "Eyes To Match A Soul," "The only one that could ever hear/Only one whose ears are brave/Enough to listen to the beat of a heart."
Perhaps most powerful is "Ha'ayara Bo'eret," a Jewish folk song reflecting on the Holocaust. Drummer Amir Neubach beautifully intones the initial verses, but then leaves the rest to Tananboim, who shrieks as if a part of him died with those he sings for.
Regardless of your religious/political outlook, this record is essential listening if you dig music of heavy and doomish persuasions. And no, haha, I swear this isn't a response to Adam's Muslimgauze post.
Download Here
-Asa
3 comments:
Very excited to hear this. I remember the Euronymous connection, and wanting to hear this but had forgotten about it. Thanks, you little mensch. This is a mitzvah.
this is war. i will have to respond with an Absurd post.
-Adam
Hey, this is pretty good, thanks. Reminds me of the Greek bands.
Check the file though, because the first song is cut off with that horrible digital squawk on my download.
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