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Ashmedi and Moloch of the Sumerian thrashing black metal act MELECHESH are holed up at the Sulphonic studio in Rotterdam working on demos for the follow-up to the "Emissaries" album. This will be MELECHESH's fifth full-length effort and first for Nuclear Blast Records. No date is set for the recording but it will not be before the fall.

According to a press release, "The band are aiming to keep the album multi-dimensional when it comes to the atmosphere of the songs. One of the new elements will be a couple of songs written and recorded entirely with 12 strings electric guitars. Ashmedi will then head to Istanbul where he will meet prominent musicians there so as to explore the eastern musical traditions of the city."

Commented Ashmedi: "Istanbul is a place where Eastern and Western Music have been perfectly interwoven for decades, and it is a great place to absorb musically and spiritually as Istanbul also has a very fascinating occult side to it as well."

MELECHESH's performance at last weekend's Hellfest in Clisson, France (see fan-filmed video footage below) was captured for "Ashmedi: A Metal Disporant", a new documentary from Tools of the Trade Productions focusing on MELECHESH's Ashmedi. According to a press release, "this documentary [tries] to capture Ashmedi in his personal surroundings as well as his music life in the Netherlands. The camera travel[s] with him to Jerusalem in the 'Holy' Land to emphasize and document the settings that have been relevant to the writing processes and the timeline of MELECHESH's existence. This portrait reveal[s] what aspects of the area contributed to the shaping of Ashmedi's personality on a spiritual, intellectual and musical level."

MELECHESH's latest album, "Emissaries" — the follow-up to 2003's "Sphynx" — was released January 23, 2007 on Osmose Productions/The End Records.

Vooder Escreveu:Têm saído uns discos fixes e tal, mas o "Emissaires" é um dos melhores discos que saiu nos ultimos tempos. Não conheço os anteriores por preguiça, mas já me disseram que não são tão bons, mas irei ouvir o novo concerteza.

Neburis Escreveu:É blasfémia se disser que a "Secrets Of Sumerian Sphynxology" me dá vontade de dançar?

Venham mais hinos mesopotâmios. E o documentário do Ashmedi também promete.

Klavier Escreveu:

Neburis Escreveu:É blasfémia se disser que a "Secrets Of Sumerian Sphynxology" me dá vontade de dançar?

Venham mais hinos mesopotâmios. E o documentário do Ashmedi também promete.

existem varias musicas com ritmos de bateria semelhantes ao "kuduro"(?!), brutal

dred_666 Escreveu:O Djinn e o As Jerusalem Burns também