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Of Metal and Middle East

I always thought Jordan was a basketball player, first name Michael. Or was it a singer? Or were they one person? Didn’t the singer have some incident involving his balls?

Anyway, to my big surprise, it seems that Jordan is also a country. You learn something new every day. The country’s (and in fact, entire Middle-Eastern) metal scene is still new, but working hard. They are facing the same old stereotypes every metalhead faces at one point of their lives: that they’re Satanists, evil, bad, violent, demented, etc. Of course none of these things apply to a usual metalhead, regardless of what my mother might have told you about me.

You can read more on the subject as well as few fan statements here, and you can check out the band pictured above, Binding Shade, if you click here.