Metal Jew

Celebrity Skins

The often asinine Heeb has a decent article up about white power bands attempting crossover success. See: Heeb: The Music Issue: Celebrity Skins.

Lecture at Texas A & M University

On 14 April 2009 I presented a guest lecture at Texas A & M University entitled 'The Color of Metal: 'Whiteness', 'Blackness' and the Roots of Heavy Metal in 1960s Rock'. I hope to turn it into an article at some point, in the meantime, you can my powerpoint presentation: Download Texas a and m lecture April 2009.

I'm now Twittering

I'm giving Twitter a go - my feed is here (@KeithKahnHarris)
Not sure whether I will keep it up for long. It seems like a real treadmill. In any case, my disgracefully short posts on this blog are almost Tweet-like in their brevity...

Greatest. Metal. Band. Name. Ever.

All hail Gaylord (their music is pretty good too)

Silence

Yeah yeah I know I haven't posted much the last couple of weeks - I've been away. Normal service will resume at some point. In the meantime, check out Ulytau , a not bad Kazakh folk metal band.

New Jewish metal article

I just had an article published on Comment Is Free on Jewish metal. Would be grateful if anyone wanted to put comments on it.

Also, here's a clip of Perry Farrell, doing a dissapointingly straight version of Oseh Shalom on the  Chabad telethon. A missed opportunity methinks (hat tip Beware of the  Blog):