Israeli rock

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The Israeli rock scene began in the 1960s, when American and British bands like The Beatles became popular. A few Israeli artists, like Arik Einstein and Shalom Hanoch began experimenting with rock. The first major rock band from Israel was Kaveret, who sang in Hebrew.

In the early 70s, Israeli had a burgeoning progressive rock scene. One of the first performers was Shlomo Gronich, whose 1971 debut was Why Didn't You Tell Me?!. This was however, preceded by Danny Ben Israel Bullshit 3 1/4, which was released in 1970 and promptly forgotten about for some thirty years. Other 70s prog bands included The Churchills, Zingale, and Sheshet.

Israel also developed a new style of rock/metal named Oriental metal, which is a crossover between death metal and doom metal, influenced by ancient Jewish traditions and the oriental culture, both in lyrics and melody.

Current and recent Rock/Oriental Metal bands include Mango Yard, Ethnix, Rockfour, Mashina, HaYehudim, Monica Sex, Mofa HaArnavot Shel Doctor Casper, Shegetz, Salem, Orphaned Land, Beit HaBubot and Solstice Coil.

Current and recent Rock singers include: Aviv Geffen, Ivri Lider, Yoni Bloch, Efrat Gosh, Idan Raichel, Reva L'Sheva and more.