Hey, Burnt Steak (if you’re still around), I like metal.
Samocles beat me to the David Lazzar mention. I haven’t heard his stuff.
Metalish is pretty much what would happen if you hired a 70s metal band to play your bar mitzvah, equipping them with sheet music (it’s all instrumental).
Gevolt are not frum Jews or anything close to it.
You can check out the “Yiddish-speaking Vikings” article linked to on the Wikipedia page for their album “AlefBase” to find a number of similar acts, as well as a blog dedicated to Jews and metal.
Black Shabbis (an album) by Jamie Saft is in the same category.
I’d go into some kind of discourse here about metal for the sake of those who aren’t familiar with it but I doubt anyone actually cares. Let ’em think we love “noise and screaming”.
In my opinion, what heavy metal (and its various subgenres) has become is simply awful noise.
Yes, extreme forms of metal may have become dominant in the general metalhead culture, but metal’s 40+year history is still available for the listening. And now the new thing seems to be progressive metal, and there’s a long-standing occult+/retro-metal
thing going…