Jewish Metal Music Word from: Mordy

There are two different blogs for news about Heavy Metal music and Jews. That seems like a copious amount for two very different topics. Metal Jew is the first, and has a lot less updates than the second site, but all seem fairly ontopic to the theme of Metal and Jews. The other is Metal Israel which is primarily about the general secular metal scene, but as it occurs in Israel (which seems to have a load of metal fans). The Jewish aspect is generally played down. Which makes sense, considering the different titles. Actually Metal in Israel is so popular, it even has its own magazine, Jerusalem Metal.

My favorite metal news from Israel recently though is a poster advertising a Morpheus/Eternal Gray show that says, “It’s Time To Sin Again.” The punchline is that the Tel Aviv concert was Yom Kippur night.

I've since gotten into Orphaned Land since the Commentator published a review about them. I am unsure that the album is about anything Jewish, but I love the sound. And this is coming from someone who hates most metal music. So there is Jewish metal out there (maybe I'll interview David Lazzar some time in the future. He is the metal god of Lubavitch Yeshivas). You just have to know where to look.