Reborn (band)
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Reborn is a death metal
band from Morocco
. The band was founded in 2002, and after some initial local success became known more for political than musical reasons, when in April 2003 a Moroccan judge sentenced nine heavy metal musicians from Reborn and two other bands as well as five fans to jail time (between three months and one year) after they were found "found in possession of skeletons, skulls, cobras, vipers and 'a collection of diabolical CDs.'" In April, a Casablanca
court cut those sentences for three of the nine musicians to 45 days, and acquitted the eleven others.
According to Reda Zine, one of the founders of the band and of the Moroccan heavy metal scene, "We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal." The band performed at the 2003 Boulevard des Jeunes Musiciens
music festival in Casablanca.
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 from Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
. The band was founded in 2002, and after some initial local success became known more for political than musical reasons, when in April 2003 a Moroccan judge sentenced nine heavy metal musicians from Reborn and two other bands as well as five fans to jail time (between three months and one year) after they were found "found in possession of skeletons, skulls, cobras, vipers and 'a collection of diabolical CDs.'" In April, a Casablanca
Casablanca
Casablanca is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Grand Casablanca region.Casablanca is Morocco's largest city as well as its chief port. It is also the biggest city in the Maghreb. The 2004 census recorded a population of 2,949,805 in the prefecture...
court cut those sentences for three of the nine musicians to 45 days, and acquitted the eleven others.
According to Reda Zine, one of the founders of the band and of the Moroccan heavy metal scene, "We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal." The band performed at the 2003 Boulevard des Jeunes Musiciens
Boulevard des Jeunes Musiciens
Boulevard des jeunes musiciens is a yearly held music festival contest organized in Casablanca, Morocco. The Boulevard was initially thought to be a competition aiming to reward the best formation in its own category...
music festival in Casablanca.
Founding members
- Nabil Andaloussi - drums
- Saad Bouidi - bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Amine Med - guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
- Abdelsamda Bourhim - guitar
- Nabyl Guennouni - vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...