So I got David Lazzar's album 'Shtark' thropugh the post this week. It's fairly decent musicallyand 'properly' Metal, although David's vocals are fairly weak.
I'm still puzzling over the semiotics of the thing. It doesn't seem to be a crude tool for outreach. Like Matisyahu he is an unconventional Lubavitcher - appearing in dark glasses and tallit on the cover.
What really intrigues me is the line on the inlay sleeve 'after listening to this CD one must go to the Mikveh immediately' and on the back the line 'Warning: not for Chassidish buchrim'. He's lyrics seem to express anger to God as well. Clearly he's getting off on the transgressive aspects of Metal but to what end?
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