''Djinn'' is the second full-length album by the
black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emp ...
band
Melechesh
Melechesh is an ethnically Assyrian black metal band that originated in Jerusalem and is currently based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Ashmedi started the band as a solo project in 1993. In the following year, guitarist Moloch and drummer Lord C ...
, and their first on
Osmose Productions
Osmose Productions is a French independent record label created in 1991 by Hervé Herbaut, after he had spent three years running a small mail order company. They specialize mainly in death and black metal bands.
Many of the groups who began w ...
. A video for ''Genies, Sorcerers and Mesopotamian Nights'' was made, using an abridged version. Also note that the song "The Siege of Lachish" is actually 6 minutes and 21 seconds long; after an extended period of silence, a Mesopotamian chant played in reverse starts at 9:32.
Track listing
Personnel
*Ashmedi: Vocals, Rhythm and Lead Guitars, Synthesizers
*Moloch: Rhythm and Lead Guitars,
Buzuq
The ''buzuq'' ( ar, ; also transliterated ''bozuq'', ''bouzouk'', buzuk etc.) is a long-necked fretted lute related to the Greek bouzouki and Turkish saz. It is an essential instrument in the Rahbani repertoire, but it is not classified a ...
, Vovals
*Al' Hazred: Bass, Backing Vocals
*Proscriptor: Drums, Percussion
Production
*Executive Producer: Osmose Productions
*Arranged and Produced by Melechesh
*Recorded by Eric DeBoer and Henry Weiring
*Mixed by Eric DeBoer, Harry Weiring and Ashmedi
*Masrered by Kol Marshall and Proscriptor McGovdern.
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References
2001 albums
Melechesh albums
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