Al-Namrood & Ayyur & Dhul-Qarnayn - "Narcotized" (2008)

AL-NAMROOD & AYYUR & DHUL-QARNAYN "Narcotized"

Year: 2008
Genre: Oriental Black Metal 
Country: Saudi Arabia / Tunisia / Bahrain
Label: Salute Records

Track List:

1. AL-NAMROOD (Saudi Arabia) - Al Barzakh
   
2. DHUL-QUARNAYN (Bahrain) - Suqoot Allah /Fall of Allah
3. AYYUR (Tunisia) - The Queen Of Awres
4. AYYUR (Tunisia) - Proud Slave 

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This isn't an explicitly political release, but I feel it should be on my blog. In the Middle Eastern countries, where Islam is the law and the main cultural doctrine is isolationism, all kinds of rock (not to mention metal) music are highly frowned upon, and you can easily get in trouble by just wearing black clothes and "satanic" symbols. So the whole metal music scene in these countries is a much more revolutionary and anti-establishment thing than it's in the West.

"Narcotized" is the first anti-Islamic black metal compilation from the Arabic countries, released in December 2008. The most well-known band on it is Al-Namrood ("The Unbeliever"), who released several full-length albums dedicated to ancient Arabic history and anti-religious subjects. Dhul-Qarnayn was an one-man ambient black metal project from Bahrain, with lyrical themes of misanthropy, sacrilege and rebellion. The man behind Dhul-Qarnayn was involved in several more metal projects, but stopped all his musical activities in 2010. Ayyur is a raw black metal duo from Tunisia which released a few demos through 2007-2009. It was explicitly stated that Ayyur has nothing to do with NSBM.

It would be interesting to hear more BM or just any metal/punk stuff from that region, especially from Lebanon and Palestine - because people there have witnessed the horrors of war by their own eyes, unlike most of western "war black metal" bands, so they really know about what they're singing. Another place of interest is Libya, because the ideas of M.Qaddafi's "The Green Book" are pretty close to anarcho-communism in many ways. Don't really know what's there in practice, though... At least there's a metal band from Libya called "Mass Age", whose name is an obvious reference to Green Book, but I couldn't find any more info about them.