| Arallu | |
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| Origin | Ma'ale Adumim |
| Genres | Black metal, thrash metal, oriental metal |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Labels | Raven Music, Legion of Death, The End, Epidemic |
| Associated acts | Melechesh, Nail Within, Lehavoth, Viscera Trail, Desert, The Afterlife, Bartholomeus Night |
| Members | |
| Moti "Butchered" Daniel Gal "Pixel" Cohen Sergei "Metalheart" Nemichenitser Yonathan Dushnitzki Yaniv Zada |
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| Past members | |
| Avi Caspi Yossi Darmon Alex Schuster Ben Fisher |
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Arallu is an Israeli extreme metal band. As one of the members of the Jerusalem extreme metal scene, Arallu has "thrived off the seeming contradiction of its location within a 'holy' city."[1]
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Arallu was created as the solo project of Moti "Butchered" Daniel, a bass guitarist who has performed live with Melechesh.[2] The debut album The War on the Wailing Wall arrived in 2001 and featured "a drum machine programmed to ludicrous speed".[3] In 2002, Arallu released their "iconoclastic" second album Satanic War in Jerusalem.[1] Nir Nakav from the band Salem was responsible for the drums and the traditional Goblet drum while Daniel performed on all other instruments and vocals. The album featured a cover version of Slayer's "Evil Has No Boundaries". Daniel expanded the band's line-up after the release of this album and a DVD Visual Chaos Invasion was released in the following year.[2]
In September 2003, Daniel's brother was kidnapped and held to ransom by guerrillas from the Colombian organisation Ejército de Liberación Nacional. Daniel was successful in negotiating for his brother's release.[2]
The year 2005 saw the release of Arallu's third album The Demon From The Ancient World with guest performers from various Israeli acts including Zeev Tananboim of Salem.[4] Daniel returned the favor with a guest performance on Salem's chart-topping Strings Attached album.[5]
In September 2007, Arallu opened for Mayhem's concert in Tel Aviv. The footage from the performance was filmed and is scheduled for release in 2008 as the band's second DVD.[6] Their fourth album Desert Battles - Descending to the Sands was released in 2009.[6]
On August 28, 2009, the band was the opening act for Behemoth on their show at the Barby club in Tel Aviv, along with Arafel.[7]
In September 2011, the band went on their first European tour, playing 5 dates between September 9–13, 2011, in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.[8]
Arallu performs black metal with oriental influences and touches of thrash metal. Critic Roberto Marinelli describes their style as "reminiscent of early Venom, Sodom, and Voivod: thrashy, monochromatic, underproduced and full of ideas that far outstrip their abilities".[9] Daniel has remarked in an interview that Arallu's style has to be oriental, thrashy and barbaric "all at once".[10]
