Hi There

I seen JD's topid for Arabic bands, and I came up with the Idea to introduce some persian metal acts! so here It goes and if I missed any bands, feel free to post them...also I can provide download links to their stuff so if anyone is interested, just PM me:

Mordab Death Metal - Formed In 2001 - Independent - Pioneers of Persian death metal, two first albums are avaible for download on their official website and the third is going to be sold probably online - Recommended For Fans of Nile
Official Website: www.mordab.org

Postmortem Death/Doom Metal - Formed In 2004 - Independent - Recommended For Fans Of Absentation
Official Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/postmortemirnband

Ekove Efrits Depressive Black Metal - Formed In 2001 - Salt & Ashes Prod.- one of the rising acts of Persian Black Metal...very decent musically and lyrically...released Hypermnesia 2010 which is featured on MS as well...their best effort so far was Unholy Graves[Demo] 2005 - Recommended For Fans Of Emperor
Official Webstie: http://www.ekoveefrits.com/

Aras Black Metal - Formed In 2001 - Ragnarok Records - One man project by Lord Aras who is one of the first Black Metal acts of Iran...released several albums online but released Hemaseye Andooh EP 2008 via Ragnarok records as a physical release... recommended for fans of Burzum
Official Myspace:http://www.myspace.com/arasband

Ahoora Progressive Metal - Formed In 2001 - ZirZamin Records - A very active band, Their members are trying to get out of Iran asap so their future is still in doubt but they released another full-length called Awkward Diary March 2nd which is one of their greatest efforts ever - Recommended For Fans Of Tool
Official Website : http://www.ahoora-band.com/

Silent Path Depressive Black Metal - Formed In 2008 - Evil Distribution - Side Project Of Count De Efrit, The One Man behind Ekove Efrits....released Mourner Portraits in 2009 which received good attention so the project continues - Recommended For Fans Of Nargaroth

Abathur Black Metal - Formed In 2001 - Disbanded In 2003 - Darkdamn Music Productions - started as a black metal with persian mythology lyrical theme project with one single and one split album...then in the last single, the style changed to thrash metal....Recommended For Fans Of Sodom
Official Website:www.abathur.cjb.net

Angband Power Metal - Formed In 2004 - Pure Steel Records - this band didn't catch me really but it's good for power metal fans in iran to have a power metal band anyways!!! - recommended for fans of DragonForce
Official Website:http://www.angbandmetal.com/

Emerna Ambient Black Metal - Formed In 2006 - Thorn Laceration Records - one of the most anticipated acts of persian black metal, emerna released 9 Albums [5 full-length, 2 Split, and 2 singles] online and his latest album Silent Like Lie [Very Catchy Album] has been released via Tape on Thorn Laceration Records - Recommended For Fans Of Summoning
Official Website:http://deeepest.com/

Farshid Arabi Heavy Metal - Formed In 2003 - Avay Barbod Records - the first Persian metal band to release their album inside Iran legally! their lyrical theme is religious and their music quality is decent
Official Website: http://www.farshidarabi.com/index2.htm

Farzad Golpayegani Progressive Metal - Formed In 2001 - Independent - the first Instrumental and the first Persian band to use traditional instruments such as Daf and Tonbak on their music...they released four albums [one,two,three,four] all online and for download on their official website - Recommended For Fans Of Manowar
Official Website: http://www.farzadonline.com/

Freezing Moon Pure Black Metal - Formed In 2007 - Pure Black Heart Productions - one of the new born metal bands in Persian Black Metal scene, the band offers black metal like you never seen before from a Persian band! they released two demos [2007,2010] and is not really known or active among metalheads inside Iran - Recommended For Fans Of Mayhem
Official Website:http://thetruefreezingmoon.cjb.net/

Halla Pure Black Metal - Formed In 2007 - N.T.R. Records - mostly known for it's split acts with foreign acts, halla is anti-religon, especially anti-islam. - Recommended For Fans Of Horna

Kahtmayan Thrash Metal - Formed In 2003 - Ava Khorshid Records - the first Persian Band to perform a full concert with vocals inside Iran! they changed their style from Progressive to more Thrash Metal Lately
Official Website:http://www.kahtmayan.com/

Nazhand Ambient Black Metal - Formed In 2004 - Salute Records - my personal favorite among Persian bands! the band got lots of releases online and the music is unimaginably great! - Recommended For Fans Of Nocturnal Depression
Official Website: http://nazhand.blogfa.com/

Sorg Innkallelese Black Metal - Formed In 2004 - Disbanded In 2008 - Hexenreich Records - one of the greatest black metal acts of iran, unfortunately they disbanded but 10 releases is what's left from 4 years of art! - Recommended For Fans Of Burzum

Sår - Depressive Suicidal Black Metal - Formed In 2008 - Omega Productions - Recommended For Fans Of Sortsind
Official Website:http://www.sar-band.com/

Zakhm - Depressive Black Metal - Formed In 2009 - Thorn Laceration Records - I haven't checked them out yet but I heard they have good stuff
Official Website: http://www.zakhm-band.com/

Qutin - Technical Death Metal - Formed In 2009 - Independent - the band of one of my friends, they recorded on demo song yet but it's really good so you might need to check them out - Recommended For Fans Of Death
Official Website:www.qutin-band.com

Arsames - Death Metal - Formed In 2006 - Independent - one of the decent metal bands in world class if you ask me...-Recommended For Fans Of Obscura
Official Website:www.arsames.net/

Nazazel - Black Metal - Formed In 2006 - Independent - Same as Acts like Aras And Emerna - Recommended For Fans Of Summoning
Official Website:http://www.nazazel.org

1000 Funerals - Black/Funeral Doom Metal - Formed In 2005 - Disbanded In 2007 - Independent - The Side Project Of Emerna which lead the world to recognize and discover persian metal scene -Recommended For Fans Of It Will Come
Official Myspace:www.myspace.com/1000funerals

5grs - Progressive Metal - Formed In 2008 - Independent - The first Persian Metal Band with Female Vocals
Official Website: www.5grsband.com

Mantis - Metalcore - Formed In 2009 - Independent - This band only released on song called Grudge, which is technically good but vocally annoying - Recommended For Fans Of The Dillinger Escape Plan

Avinar - Depressive Black Metal - Formed In 1999 - Disbanded In 2003 - The first project of Emerna which is the first metal band inside Iran to be born - Recommended For Fans Of Leviathan
Official Myspace: www.myspace.com/avinarband

SDS - Death Metal - Formed In 2002 - Independent - I only heard from the once in global metal - Recommended For Fans Of Slayer

that's all I could remember from Persian bands, If anyone knows another band or information, plz post it here

Wow so many bands u have there! ofcourse i have no clue to write over u .. but its nice to know.
so tell me, do u make concerts that often??

Written by Roro on 30.03.2010 at 15:34

Wow so many bands u have there! ofcourse i have no clue to write over u .. but its nice to know.
so tell me, do u make concerts that often??

that's nothing compared to our population....
and about concerts, are u serious? we live in ISLAMIC REPUBLIC (read dictatorship) of IRAN so no kind of western music (not only metal) is allowed, no records is being sold...the few SDS and Khatmayan gigs were in past government of Khatami which gave more freedom to art and newspapers but Ahmadinejad, are you serious?...of course there are underground and house parties which sometimes have some shows from bands but they are so hard to manage and find and people can get caught in them easily....it's really fucked up you know!!

Ok man good one but explain what you mean whit Persian

Written by Bad English on 30.03.2010 at 20:55

Ok man good one but explain what you mean whit Persian

Yeah?
You don't have to play the clueless all the time, you know...

Written by AiwiAstwihad on 30.03.2010 at 21:42

Written by Bad English on 30.03.2010 at 20:55

Ok man good one but explain what you mean whit Persian

Yeah?
You don't have to play the clueless all the time, you know...

totally agreed!

Poor production, lack of originality, lack of native influences ( its true about most of them), lack of innovation, lack of knowledge...etc! and millions of other reasons make these things SUCK!

Written by Roro on 30.03.2010 at 15:34

Wow so many bands u have there! ofcourse i have no clue to write over u .. but its nice to know.
so tell me, do u make concerts that often??

there's no real concert, once i was in one of their concert, it was a progressive band i think the band was not allowed to sing and the crowd was not allowed to headbang

Hmm, these fucking craps warrant a new thread why?

Written by [user id=41986] on 30.03.2010 at 12:13

Halla

Have you got any links to downlodable stuff?
I've read about them in MA but that's all, would like to give it a try. Don't care if it's not anything that superb, the anti-Islamic themed lyrics are enough to make it worth checking...For once at least.

....And there's a flaw in the title. "Persian" is mistyped.

Written by Varegan on 30.03.2010 at 23:49

Poor production, lack of originality, lack of native influences ( its true about most of them), lack of innovation, lack of knowledge...etc! and millions of other reasons make these things SUCK!

You traitor! Just kidding. Whatever, why do you hesitate to start an oustanding band then?
You can count on my beloved genius parrot ( ) for backing vocals. lol

Written by Varegan on 30.03.2010 at 23:53

there's no real concert, once i was in one of their concert, it was a progressive band i think the band was not allowed to sing and the crowd was not allowed to headbang

Hahahaha! Hatman akharesham salavat ferestadin. Weren't you like this? -->
I remember you telling me about it but i thought it was some underground concert. It should've been legal then, right?

The only band that i know from Iran is Mordab and it's a good death metal band, if you can recommend some good brutal death or technical death persian bands that's well be great for me
nice topic !!

Written by [user id=28526] on 03.04.2010 at 13:16

The only band that i know from Iran is Mordab and it's a good death metal band, if you can recommend some good brutal death or technical death persian bands that's well be great for me
nice topic !!

Arsames and Qutin would probably be good!! especially Arsames! of course if u could find their stuff!!:D

Written by AiwiAstwihad on 31.03.2010 at 13:23


why do you hesitate to start an oustanding band then?

because i'm lazy
and to be honest, my skills are very poor yet and i havent found my influences and source of inspirations, i believe i'm still young for serious acts and there's still a lot to learn and worst of all i have a fuckin military service to do very soon, and even worse is that some nights i must sleep hungry because i have no money to buy the cheapest fast foods, so its clear that i cant buy a new instruments and needed stuff, and even if i suddenly find a treasure and buy my stuff it would be impossible for me to find band mates amongst these emo iranian kiddos who have no idea about my taste of music! anyway i dont know... maybe things get better after military shit

P.S: i can eat your parrot right now

Written by Varegan on 05.04.2010 at 03:19

... maybe things get better after military shit

P.S: i can eat your parrot right now

Whay fast foods? They are not good for your health, eat bread & cheese for example, like me...Vegan cheese of course.
Things will sure get better after military service, believe me...When it's over you'll be emplyed more easily and since you are capable, will soon succeed...Good luck bro.

You missed out the best.

Ayat.

Written by The Turbanator on 10.05.2010 at 00:08

You missed out the best.

Ayat.

Ayat guys are from Lebennan...

Check out explode's (progressive death metal) new album "labyrinth of solitude" on myspace and you will forget about the others ...

Written by Varegan on 30.03.2010 at 23:49

Poor production, lack of originality, lack of native influences ( its true about most of them), lack of innovation, lack of knowledge...etc! and millions of other reasons make these things SUCK!

Totally agreed. Good Metal bands in Iran are less than brain cells in Mahmood's skull. Near zero.
Of course there must a few good bands too, but so far anything I've heard was crap. I prefer to listen to Suzan Roshan rather than most of these so called Metal bands..

You've got to try my new band called "Birdie Birdie Birdie" It's got a vocalist with an angelic brutality All i have to do is to play a song, no matther what (even Susan Khanum lol ) then -->

I just listened to 30 seconds of a Zakhm song on last.fm. While it's not the sort of music about which an opinion can be formed in 30 seconds, it sounded like they could potentially develop into a decent band. I tried listening to some of the other songs on there but they turned out to be from a mid-90s Hindi movie also called Zakhm.

The scene here is kind of the same, no concerts, no bands, religious culture dominating, brutal police, and emo fags all over the place

Written by [user id=41986] on 30.03.2010 at 23:22

Written by AiwiAstwihad on 30.03.2010 at 21:42

Written by Bad English on 30.03.2010 at 20:55

Ok man good one but explain what you mean whit Persian

Yeah?
You don't have to play the clueless all the time, you know...

totally agreed!

yeah me too!!

I didn't saw any folk metal band in the list , I think a good persian folk metal can be a good idea

Written by akvan on 11.08.2010 at 23:31

I didn't saw any folk metal band in the list , I think a good persian folk metal can be a good idea

Yeah. What's your idea about mixing Electric Guitar with Santoor and Setar ?

Written by [user id=41780] on 12.02.2011 at 20:52

Written by akvan on 11.08.2010 at 23:31

I didn't saw any folk metal band in the list , I think a good persian folk metal can be a good idea

Yeah. What's your idea about mixing Electric Guitar with Santoor and Setar ?

Yeah it can be good but someone must do it with a lot of music knowledges,otherwise it can be shit

Written by akvan on 13.02.2011 at 13:36

someone must do it with a lot of music knowledges

like me! greatest violinist of ALL TIME lol xD =))

Written by akvan on 13.02.2011 at 13:36

Written by [user id=41780] on 12.02.2011 at 20:52

Written by akvan on 11.08.2010 at 23:31

I didn't saw any folk metal band in the list , I think a good persian folk metal can be a good idea

Yeah. What's your idea about mixing Electric Guitar with Santoor and Setar ?

Yeah it can be good but someone must do it with a lot of music knowledges,otherwise it can be shit

One day, I'm gonna try it. I know it seems weird at first but I really like to try new things like it

I wish to you all the best . but many men want do this such as me but remember it needs music knowledge

Can you suggest any Persian band that uses traditional elements "Oriental tones"

I found a new band; Phenomenal ! [ Gothic Metal ]

Phenomenal band is one of the Iranian classic metal bands formed in 2006 in Tehran by Rouzbeh Shahrokhi, Ali Esfahani, Arash Pajand Moghaddam and Vahid Esfahani. They sound strange and we can't tag them "Gothic" and nothing more. There are many supreme instrumental songs in their full-length album including female operatic vocals and you can feel unique atmosphere in every song.

You can also check The Best Iranian Albums: http://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=1325