OK…as someone born in the States and used to an Israeli metal scene that basically isn’t anything Israeli or Jewish, I gotta say, Almana Schora (Black Widow in Hebrew) was a mechaye. Between the Breslovs blowing some huge honking shofars, their ten plagues song (that ended in makat bachurot vs. bechorot (bachurot meaning girls) and the lead singer have everyone raise hands and yell “SHMA YISRAEL H ELOKENU H EHAD” it was definitely something to take note of. Bassist Yagel Cohen has a tattoo of Eretz Yisrael on his bicep, and the rest of his band were dressed in regular black metalhead clothes albeit embossed with silver magenei david, and as for the actual music, it was edgy rock and roll, Pink Floyd influenced, and I never saw such a heavy acoustic set in my life as well. I’m impressed. Check them out at http://myspace.com/almanaschora.

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