Salem-Israeli extreme Metal pioneers,and BM pioneers

This is a video I made about the band Salem,due to people's ignorance about the Israeli Metal scene claiming that it is "absurd" that Israelis and Jews make Black Metal and claiming that the Israeli Metal scene is "copying the European scene"
here is what Yishai shwartz the head of Raven music explained about this band:
Yishai Sweartz So, this is how it all began...
This is the first BlackDeath demo from Israel that gained international success, and for a good reason. This is a true underground classic !!!
Recorded live at the Roxan club in Tel-Aviv in 1990, this demo is a summary of Salem's early years (1985-1990), some of the songs here apeared on the previous demos (and written by the previous line-up).
This is raw, dark, grim and bloodfreezing blackdeath metal, like it was meant to be. Influenced by the likes of Bathory, Mayhem, Sodom , Messiah , Hellhammer, Slayer etc., all the songs here are very powerfull and heavy,
Some of the riffs will remind you alot of Norwegian Black metal - Except for ther fact that this was written and recorded BEFORE any of the norwegian bands released an album. Anyway, this early effort already shows Salem's unique touches : the incredibly harsh vocals (think of Quorthon meets Totmentor-era Atilla,but harsher...) the raw guitarsound, the sick guitareleads... See More
and the excellent drumming by Amir Neubach (who was only 16 years old at the time, and joined the band shortly before the demo was recorded), as well as the mid-eastern riffing in songs like 'Old Wounds' and 'Emotional Demands', something that was totaly new at the time (Years before Orphaned land and Melechesh formed).
The only weakness are the pourly-written lyrics, which cover social and political issues (mostly from a rightwing point of view, yet Anti-Nazi).
Such lyrics are unusual for such a band, and don't exactly fit this genre, but the great music more than makes up for this minor flaw.
No wander Salem were held in high regard by such legendery figures as Euronymous and Dead (who can be seen wearing a Salem T-shirt on Mayhem's 'The Black Emperors' bootleg album.
This demo gained Salem a deal with the german label Morbid Records,
and was included as a bonus on the 'Creating Our Sins' cd, which is due to be Remastered and Re-released by the Israeli Label Raven Music in 2005.


the song here is "millions slaughtered" from the album "Creating our sins"
year of the album:1992
year of the song:1990
Lyrics:
There were wars over the years
Lots of people died
Lots of people got wounded
Lots of people got crazy
Many people lost
Their homes and families
But only one war was called
The Holocaust

There was a madman
His name was hitler
He carried after him a big nation
to become nazis
His soldiers almost murdered
a whole nation

Millions starved to death
And were murdered after torture
Scientists made their experiments
On the Jewish bodies
While they were still alive

The victims will never forget
The horror they''ve been through
Nowdays the nazi party is growing
Stop them before it''s tool late !

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• Salem
• Black
• death
• metal
• satan
• antichrist
• shock
• value
• music
• venom
• bathory
• sacrofago
• rotting
• christ
• immortal
• burzum
• varg
• vikrenes
• nazi
• zionist
• holocaust
• fascism
• racism
• terrorism
• palestinians
• plo
• fatah
• ze'ev
• tenenbaum
• michael
• goldstein
• thrash
• oldschool
• german

[JimmyLaVey]

it's okay with salem being a badass BM band (in the beginning at least) and they were a freat ispiration for modern extreme music both with hellhammer, sarcofago, mayhem mercyful fate venom etc..but the evil music shall be supported by evil lyrics, not by lyriks speaking about jewish victimism, and so on. great band though

[IsraeliMetalhead]

@JimmyLaVey I have to agree with that in some point..

But you can also check for a band named "acheron gates"

They started in 1989 in Haifa,Israel the music is fucking cult and sounds good.

And the lyrics deal with occult satanism and even facism

[nexarulhunexarulhu]

Do you like stuff like old rotting christ, necromantia, thou art lord, varathron ???

[IsraeliMetalhead]

@nexarulhunexarulhu I know only Rotting Christ from what you said

Their old stuff is cool but Im into their stuff today...

I am into oldschool Black Metal,but you just named bands I happen not to listen too :)

For the record I like bathory,venom,tormentor,morbid etc,sarcofago

[IsraeliMetalhead]

@FallenEmpire666

You NS fucktards never quick do you?

Israelis played Black Metal before any NS Wotan ass licker ever started playing BM

[sonicmiddleage]

Fucking amazing band, esp. for their time!!!

[Chemicalwarfare84]

This is brutal.

[TheBlackAbyss]

are they the first death metal, or first black metal or first thrash metal or first doom metal. ? im confused.

[Vampiric59]

wow im not jewish but varg is a fucking douchebag

[NokturnoCulto88]

@larawora You say "Heil Hitler" and do you like this Zionist band? you must not support that shit if you hate Israel.

White World wake up.

[NokturnoCulto88]

They are just Zionist scum.

[larawora]

the only thing that im love in israel is only this band im live in assrael and is shit just like all the middle east fuck middle east hail whitepower and hitler and hail europe and usa!!!

[MrBLITZKRIEGWARRIOR]

@billrogers8

1. This is exactly why he mentioned "Second wave" as the bands you have mentioned is FIRST WAVE and any idiot knows it.

2. About victims: Don't give me that bullshit.... 50-80% of what you suppose as true BM sing about how christians used to fuck their culture and beliefs for hundreds of years, they sound like some kind of amnesty loosers and I cannot see how the salem lyrics are more or less ridiculous.

[oghjrnf]

If these are the lyrical themes, what is with the pentagrams and inverted crosses ?

[julienhomo]

circumcised metal

[Heavymetalgamer28]

Is it true that Varg Vikernes sent a bomb in the mail to these guys a long time ago?