Playing God and Other Short Stories is the seventh studio album by Israeli death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Salem, released on April 3, 2010.

The album features At the Gates

At the Gates

At the Gates is an extreme metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, and a major progenitor of the Gothenburg death-metal sound. Their early albums lean towards a death metal sound, but later albums sound more like melodic death metal.Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007 for a...

 vocalist Tomas Lindberg

Tomas Lindberg

Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg is a Swedish musician who has fronted many heavy metal bands. He has been active as a musician and composer since the late 1980s. He teaches at a high school.-Career:...

 singing lead vocals on "The Mark of the Beast Part 2" and co-lead vocals on "The Mark of the Beast Part 1".

The album features an unusual death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 cover to Bob Marley

Bob Marley

Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...

's classic song "Exodus".

Track listing

• Note: The Israeli
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
   edition also contains a bonus track, an adaptation to a 12th century Jewish hymn named "Et Sha'arei Ratzon" ("Time of the Gates of Grace") by rabbi Yehuda Ben Shmuel Abbas, which tells the story of the binding of Isaac.

Personnel

• Ze'ev Tananboim - lead vocals
• Lior Mizrachi - guitar
• Nir Gutraiman - guitar
• Michael Goldstein - bass
• Nir Nakav - drums, percussion

Additional personnel

• Tomas Lindberg
  Tomas Lindberg
  Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg is a Swedish musician who has fronted many heavy metal bands. He has been active as a musician and composer since the late 1980s. He teaches at a high school.-Career:...
  
  - vocals on tracks 7 & 9
• Kristin E. Wallace - female vocals on tracks 2 & 9

Production

• Produced by Nir A, Ze'ev Tananboim & Nir Nakav
• Mixed by Nir A, Ze'ev Tananboim & Nir Nakav
• Mastered by UE Nastasi at Sterling Sound, New York City
• Artwork & Design by Nir G

Release history

Country	Release date
Israel	April 3, 2010
Europe	April 26, 2010
United States	May 25, 2010