Egypt’s War On Metal (And Why It Failed)

i remember this incident being reported in Roz Al Yousef magazine , since then Egyptian metal scene has actually died .

I remember 1997 very well. My father rip take all my black t shirts ( Bon Jovi , Metallica , Tupac , snoop , death-row recorders, coolio , and others ) all my caps ( Chicago bulls , Ny ,LA , raiders) all my tapes and the Walkman and after that beat the hell of me and shave my head at zero . I was only 15 years old I was learning about music only because I hate Arabic music in that time . I was banned to speak with my friends in school and street and not allowed to own music tapes in English and not allowed to wear black shirts… all of that because the media and specialty ( Hala Sarhan ) , it was dark time in my life . Everyone around me thinks I warship the devil. I was only listening to music and wear what ever the teenager wear .

i used to read these articles , there was one particular magazine called Rose al Yusuf , that would write about blood rituals and all kind of crazy stuff, didn't stop anyone though from listening , i think once music became available on the internet , thats when it became very hard to control or stop any one from listening to what they want

I love your video. Late at night now, so time to sleep…but thanks a million…not really the usual music documentaries…I love it. Very interesting and entertaining. Thank you so much. And yes, I have subscribed and already shared . ❤❤❤

Thanks for making a video about this

@0:52 ok, This shirt makes me realize why they were put in prison

im egyptian and my favorite band is riverwood

Can Some one hook me up? I’m trying to find the andromida and cartoon killers songs

Fire in Cairo

Middle East and North Africa took satanic panic to another level 😂😂

not egyptian, nothing to contribute, loved the video, love the music, love khaled so much

I am an 18 year old Egyptian Lead guitarist for a Progressive Metal band . I mostly listen and play prog metal and jazz fusion . And I kid you not people are still afraid of the music . Sometimes we are even forbidden to play metal at some venues

As an Egyptian christian who has an interest in Metal and Rock (More of a casual listener that a "let's collect merch" listener). I can attest to this. Also, many people like the APPEARANCE of being religious. For how common rape apologists are, you'd think "evil atheists" would be the least of our problems. Also, as that gentleman said, I too started looking into those "dark genre" along with scene movements after a Sunday school teacher tried to unironically argue that black lipstick is satanic. Adults still hate the hell out of it, some teens are also performatively against it, but most teens from said educated circles dgaf. Unfortunately, this is a more recent view as I wasn't old enough to listen to foreign music to tell you what the 90s metal scene looked like

el sawy culture wheel is still a really relevant place today

I'm myself a HC kid that's also a huge black metal fan, but as for Egyptian music I highly recommend Aly Talibab. He's an underground rapper with AMAZING lyrics and emotions. He made some music with El Manzouma too, so it's great for y'all RATM fans out there.

Looking forward to you getting to Cairokee in the next one, probably my favourite Egyptian band. Which if you had asked me 10-15 years ago would've been a question I wouldn't have been able to answer whatsoever as a, at that point Swedish University student in the way to graduation 🙂

Egyptian here and i vividly remember this period, I remember reading the article and getting shocked by it all, I never heard if satanic music, then I read that they was listening to Metallica and I said I listen to Metallica too, where is the Satan in that? and then later i realised that they destroyed the morale of that generation for a bit of publicity and get some political points from the ultra conservative the muslim brotherhood who was gaining political momentum against the regime and they wanted to say hey we can be dicks like them too and show that we are the protector of virtue it was all a shit show, never stopped listening to heavy metal and I am still a sucker for an electric guitar that plays along arabic lyrics, you can say its a fetish of mine.

Don't forget about the most famous egyptian metal bass player, Giza Butler!

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