MELECHESH - Debut Album Available Again Via iTunes
July 23, 2012, 12 years ago
Masters of mesopotamian black / thrash metal, MELECHESH, have finally made their debut album, As Jerusalem Burns, available for digital download via iTunes. The long out of print landmark album can be purchased here.
Commented guitarist/singer and mainman Ashmedi: "Finally available for legal downloading. Our debut album from 1996, As Jerusalem Burns... Al Intisar means a lot to me, it was recorded with next to nothing budget in the city of Jerusalem and all the odds were against us, at the time no one paid attention to black metal being made in the holy city, with time we changed that. We recorded it live to tape so this means we all played at the same time without any breaks in the songs so no room for corrections or to remake one particular part. If we felt there was one little mistake we would re-record the whole song all over again, I think this gave it a sense of authentism. So for now it is available as a digital format and that’s it. Hopefully we will also make it availed on vinyl for the first time . Furthermore one day we perhaps might license it on CD for re-release. The music is raw as we intended it to be with hints of middle eastern music. This is Melechesh more than 15 years ago though half of our sophomore album, Djinn, was written then.“
