As i am not a translator, this interview is just published here in its english original version...
ANTI ISLAMIC ARABIC BLACK METAL
Can
you present Al Namrood to our readers ?
AlNamrood
is an Arabian oriented band focus on controversial topics, involve religious
regimes, social injustice, authority oppression, freedom and modern slavery,
classism, laws brutality and religion as a control tool. These topics brought
by an intensive, heavy, harsh and punchy music.
What
is the signification of your name ? Nimrod ?
Icon of
defiance, religion defiance.
You
play anti-islamic BM in Saoudi Arabia. What is your situation today ? Do you
still risking your life ?
Of
course, needless to say, it is extremely dangerous, as we keep very low profile
and limit our social interactions. The country is moving toward police Islamic
state and freedom of expression is getting worse than before. As it is known,
our music is consider a crime in our country, which we find absurd.
you
began your career back in 2008. What was the purpose back then ? And today ?
To
express our thoughts, using metal music and to relive ourselves from the buried
flames of anger and loath of what we are going through.
You
play a very original version of BM, with a lot of arabic influences. How did
you manage ?
Everything
done in home based studio, using whatever available resources, like PC, sound
interface, guitars, bass, amplifiers, keyboard and that is it, we do what we
want, but away from public eyes and ears.
If i
say to you that your way reminds me musically of Rotting Christ ?
I would
say we are honored.
PREISLAMIC ARABIC CULTURE
In
your lyrics you talk about pagan pre-islamic religions, that's it ? Can you
explain to us a little more ?
This
topic was illustrated in 2012 album “Kitab Al Awthan” translates to “Book of
Idols” we wanted to articulate the Arabian original history where it was erased
from many history books and replace with Islamic illumination, however, the
history cannot be hidden completely, we did our extensive research and we got
our documents of the life in pre-islamic era thus, we created the album “Kitab
Al Awthan”.
On
Enkar in 2017 you changed your logo and put an anarchist « A » sign in it. Are
you anarchist ? Where you influenced by Punk bands ?
In fact
we reviewed our concept and our objective of music and it matches the anarchy goal,
back in 2015 when we done album “Diaji Al Joor” translates to “Darkness of
Injustice” we talked about tyranny and glorification of leaders, that at some
point, people themselves created a tyrant and start to glorify that tyrant.
This topic lead us to the point of police state and authority control, since we
have our defiance and rebellious concept, the anarchist punk fit our goal. We
created album “Enkar” translates to “Denial” to articulate the state of denial
in people creating tyranny, religion servitude and authority dominace, but they
deny its existence. The anarchy concept was made in line with the punk music,
our main influencer in this area was the band “ The Exploited”. In reality our
lifestyle is aligned with the anarchist punk life style.
AL NAMROOD : BLACK METAL FROM SAOUDI ARABIA
Your
musical influences ?
I would
list a long lines of bands so lets shorten the answer, the main influncers are:
first wave of black metal like Venom, 80’s thrash metal like Razor and Sodom,
Punk like the Exploited. In fact we are still have our admiration for the 80’s
metal, sadly all the new bands do not compare to the old school ones.
And
spiritually/philosophically speaking ?
Thelema
and Aleister Crowley work, the book of law and recently “the left hand path”.
Seeds Of Iblis, i'm sure you heard of them. They realised two great anti-islam
records. Rumors are saying that they are not irakian, that it's a fake. Do you
know a little more about them ?
Unfortunately,
we have no information about them.
Other arabic bands you like ?
Nothing
that got our attention. Because most if not all, trying to align islam religion
with their music. None have the rationality to reject the religion.
What do you think of bands like Orphaned Land who are trying to make peace
between the three montheisms ?
Nonsense.
(with due respect J)
You
realised a compilation in 2018. What is the future for Al Namrood ?
More
music, more albums, more explored concepts.
How
can you continue to rehearsal and recording music ?
Maintaining
secretive life is the key to survival and band continuance.
Which of your albums do you prefer, and why ?
That’s
tough question, each album has a specific message and music construction, and
each album we have lived a particular story.
As you may notice each album sounds different than other. So it is not
easy to say which the favorite was.
Can
you list us your 30 favorite albums ever ?
Midnight
No Mercy For Mayhem
Toxic
Holocaust. Hell On Earth
Blüdwülf.
Cryptic Revelations
Candlemass. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Razor.
Violent Restitution
Sabbat
(JAP) (Satanasword)
DarkThrone.
(Panzerfaust)
IronMaiden.
(Powerslave)
Hellbastard
(Ripper Crust)
Anti
Cimex (Scandinavian Jawbreaker)
POISON
IDEA (Feel The Darkness)
Discharge
(Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing)
Melechesh
(Djinn)
Storm
(Nordavind)
The
Funeral Orchestra (We Are the End)
Sarcófago
(I.N.R.I.)
HELLHAMMER
(Apocalyptic Raids)
Sodom
(Agent Orange)
Survival
( Rock and Roll Sacrifice)
Venom (
BLACK METAL )
Black
Sabbath (Master of Reality)
Kreator
(Pleasure to Kill)
Motörhead
(Motörhead )
ChaosUK
(The riot city years)
Broken
Bones (F.O.A.D.)
GBH (Leather,Bristles,Studs
And Acne)
The
Exploited (Punks Not Dead)
GG Allin
Freaks, Faggots, Drunks and Junkies
Destruction
(Sentence Of Death)
Dayglo
Abortions (Here Today, Guano Tomorrow)
Books that you enjoy ?
Not a
book worm.
Freedom space : tell us whatever you want !
