Iranian metalcore band Out of Nowhere made a selection of 10 best Middle Eastern metal bands (or, we can call it Near East, depending, probably, on where we are). So, the best in metal from the vast region are:

Calibre - melodic metal core, Iran

Chopstick Suicide - mathcore, Turkey

Coast of Arms - metalcore, UAE/Qatar

Creative Waste - grindcore, Saudi Arabia

Kimaera - doom/death, Lebanon

Mortem Atra - melodic doom / death metal, Cyprus

New Carnis - death metal, Iran

Phenomy - thrash metal, Lebanon

Scarab - death metal, Egypt

Smouldering in Forgotten - death/black, Bahrain

The only Saudi Arabian grind-core band Creative Waste last month played a show at the Bohemian Art Cafe in Khobar, the first public metal show in Saudi Arabia. Band's frontman Fawaz Al Shawaf told Metal Injection that "the ones who organized the show are actually basically newcomers and young. They didn’t even know what grindcore […]