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user-inactivated  ·  3262 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Post your favorite "world music"

Seeds of Ibis, black metal from Iraq. Occasionally rumors go around about about them and that whole circle of bands being hoaxes because they don't include real pictures of themselves in their liner notes, with the obvious response that if you were making albums like that in the places they're claiming to make them you'd want to conceal your identity too. I choose to believe.





Meriadoc  ·  3259 days ago  ·  link  ·  

THIS I know of well. Partially because of the hoax myth. My black metal listening has dropped off in recent years, but I am so into believing they're actually in Iraq.

user-inactivated  ·  3259 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I love hearing about how metal gets adopted around the world, and stuff like the Nairobi goth scene. Sort of a second sense of "world music", the Other likes the Sisters and Mayhem and might have more common ground with me than J. Random Teapartier.

Meriadoc  ·  3258 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So I need to send you a PM to get your address. Last night at my bar I had two Puerto Rican metal bands playing that put on one hell of a show. I thought you might be into it, so I grabbed two CDs for you for Christmas.