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Member Since: 2/22/2007
Band Members: Marwan--Guitar, Screams, Violin, Keyboard, Samples
Mario--Bass, Acoustic Guitar
Micah--Drums, Percussion, Samples
Boss Drum Machine-Drums
CD with samples--Samples

Influences: Punk: Aus-Rotten, Crass, Doom, Disclose, Discharge, (Most other Dis-bands), DRI, Filth of Mankind, Fleas & Lice, Gauze, Hellshock, Misery, Napalm Death, Nausea, Sex Pistols, Zoe, etc. etc. etc.

Metal:Nausea Arabic: Rachid Taha, Farid Al-Atrache, Munir Bashir, Abdel Halim Hafez, etc.

Other: Muslimgauze...

I’ll UPDATE THIS LATER
AND THIS GUY!!! He’s a master of profanity:

Sounds Like: shit.
No, seriously though.... I guess you could say it's a combination of Rachid Taha + Assuck + Muslimgauze, with some Doom or some shit thrown in for good measure. I may end up altering this description, as I don't really give a shit about pleasing anyone's tastes but my own, and the music may change accordingly....
Record Label: Shaman Records / Shaytan Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Times-Picayune feature on Taqwacore (New Orleans)

STRIKING A CHORD Muslim punk rockers find unexpected support for their provocative message and sound Saturday, January 12, 2008By Omar Sacirbey ROSEMONT, ILL. -- It had the elements of a classic pu...
Posted by Al-Thawra (CD OUT NOW!!!) on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:03:00 PST

Write-ups: Chicago Tribune, Globe & Mail (Canada), La Repubblica XL, Texas Observer, etc.

Chicago Tribune, Jan. 06, 2008, "Get to Know These Relative Unknowns":"Al-Thawra Its fan base is minuscule and the band doesn't have an album out, but Al-Thawra has been written up in Rolling Stone an...
Posted by Al-Thawra (CD OUT NOW!!!) on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:14:00 PST

BBC Newsnight feature on Taqwacore

Hey,May Abdalla form the BBC came along with us on the tour, and to be honest, some of the guys on the tour were feeling distrustful of her. But in the end, she wrote a good article on us, and put out...
Posted by Al-Thawra (CD OUT NOW!!!) on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:32:00 PST

Al-Thawra in Rolling Stone...

Hey,Although this was already out for a while, here's a scan of the article on the Taqwa-tour that we were in. They compared us to Slipknot with tablas, which was funny, but besides that, it was defin...
Posted by Al-Thawra (CD OUT NOW!!!) on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:26:00 PST

Taqwacore Newsweek Article from June...

So, I know it's a little cheesy, and they did us some injustice with the title...hence the delay in posting it, but here's the article that came out in the June 11 issue of Newsweek. Check it out and ...
Posted by Al-Thawra (CD OUT NOW!!!) on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:21:00 PST

The Guardian...

Hey,So, I got interviewed about a week ago by Riazat Butt from the Guardian. I'm not really sure why none of my interview got quoted, but that's fine. Maybe I came off too strong, but some of the Komi...
Posted by Al-Thawra (CD OUT NOW!!!) on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:10:00 PST