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Sallah

About Me

Sallah are not collectively stupid. While goofy assholes we may be, we are not completely clueless. We are, in fact, aware that writing a metal album about Indiana Jones is unorthodox. So in case you were wondering, yes, we know. We'd like to take this opportunity to explain a bit about why we chose to write about Indiana Jones and not about, say, Satan. You can call this our Indiana Jones Manifesto.
We were all set to write this long winded explanation about how the Indiana Jones character and his role in the films serves as an embodiment of many of our personal philosophies and issues we feel are important: The struggle between religious belief and scientific fact, between self worship and selflessness, between distrust of organized religion and tolerance of human belief. The equation of religion with mysticism, the importance of intellectual pursuit and the annihilation of stupidity, the emphasis on human curiosity- all of these things are important to us and we see them in these films.
However, rather than describe this in any more detail, Sallah is going to be real with you. In a musical environment completely overcrowded with bands that sound identical and lyrics that are absolutely fucking terrible, we're doing something to stand out. Frankly, we wish more bands would do the same. In Sallah's humble opinion, anything that a metal band can do to make itself more unique should be welcomed with open arms, and more than anything else, our Indiana Jones themed album is a representation of this. We are fed up with repetitive metal.
We all saw Temple of Doom at a very young age. I can't help but think that seeing a man get his heart ripped from his chest and lowered into a pit of fire is partly responsible for why I got into metal in the first place. Nile writes about Egypt, we write about Indiana Jones.
In summary, if you don't like it, go fuck a goat and die of AIDS.!-START Block to Place Custom Banner at Top of Page-! !-Create div with image. Replace my image with the URL of your own image- OR replace img block with your own code block!!-END Block to Place Custom Banner at Top of Page-!

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Member Since: 25/03/2005
Band Members:
Belloq
Lao Che
Toht
Mola Ram
The Mean Mongolian
Oberst Vogel
Influences: The Crown, Impaled Nazarene, Behemoth, King Diamond, Immortal, Anata, Annihilator, Carcass, Nile, Darkthrone, Carnivore, Dr. Henry Jones Jr., Venom, Deceased, Exodus, Gorgoroth, Flotsam and Jetsam, Mayhem, Overkill, Kali
Sounds Like: Challah
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Sallah Listening Party and Political Rally!

This is an important message from the Black Party. Friends- I'm writing to you about an important new development in the history of America. Last week voters made history as they turned out in masses ...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:51:00 GMT

Fortune and Glory!

Hails from Chicago!!!We have some important updates:The first is to say that Sallah have finished the recording and mixing of our debut album, "Fortune and Glory." We left Semaphore Studios yesterday...
Posted by on Fri, 23 May 2008 17:04:00 GMT

Hardboiled and Studio Bound!

True metal hails from the wintry north& side of Chicago!Blackened Thrash metal band Sallah are reentering Semaphore Studios with Sanford Parker (Minsk, Nachtmystium, Lair of the Minotaur) this week to...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 16:59:00 GMT