Christmas Mission Accomplished

After our first ever unplugged performance in Hard Rock Cafe Beirut as part of the Christmas Mission 2012 (Day 1) that gathered more than 13 Lebanese bands to perform free of charge to raise funds to buy Cloth, Food and

Congratulations

Blaakyum Drummer Mr. Jad Feitrouni has just got married, we wish him the best.

Blaakyum Metal 101 appearance cancelled

It is with regret that Blaakyum have to announce the cancellation of its appearance in Metal 101 Concert, due to timing issues, for the past week we have been in direct communication with Stephanie Sa Croix to try and work things out, as the date change was not suitable for us due to some of our band members being committed to other personal and musical businesses.

Blaakyum performing for Charity in Hard Rock Cafe Beirut

Support the Lebanese Rock and Metal scene's Charity event in Hard Rock Cafe Beirut, were 16 bands will be performing to raise funds for the SOS Village orphanage. BE THERE

A simple reply to clarify the unacceptable lies that were said on Enta Horr show on Murr TV

Hello fans and friends, enemies and haters alike,
I will not indulge much in replying to all the lies said about the event we were playing in last Saturday on the 3rd of November 2012, because most lies are not worth replying to, and we understand that Joe Maalouf (the "journalist" that prepares and presents the show) is simply trying to raise the low ratings of his show by creating a "scoop", and we are used to being the scapegoats of such journalism. But since some lies were harmful to the band itself, and to clear the confusion we would like to point out that:

The Creation has began

We started writing new material right after we released the album. As any creative process many riffs end up in the bin, and many others roam aimlessly in our minds till a day comes where they find their rightful place.

End of A Tour, And a New Dawn Upon Us

Our Europe tour has ended, and our Night Lords' tour is about to end, and in the process of recovering from travel, we would like to thank everyone who contributed or helped achieving this dream: E.M Management, Ministry of Culture (Minister Gaby Layoun, Mr. Michelle, and especially Ms. Amal Mansour), Our sponsor Turkish Airlines, our financial support Mr. 

Off to Battle

We have been in Ukraine for the past three days, in Evapatoria in the Criman area, and it is a very weird place for us as we are not used to this culture, the atmosphere is so beautiful, people are more than friendly and we are enjoying the Baltic sea's Metal of the day. We will be performing tomorrow in Metal Heads` Mission and then we will be off to Metal Camp in Slovenia, we will be updating our facebook status and twitter along our Blogsite so stay tuned:

http://www.facebook.com/blaakyum
http://www.twitter.com/blaakyumband

Night Lords' European Tour 2012

Date in Slovenia and Slovakia announced

After announcing our participation in MetalCamp 2012 in Slovenia (via our facebook page check the post here https://www.facebook.com/Blaakyum ) and adding it to our Night Lords tour, we have finally confirmed and added our date in Bratislava - Slovakia to the Night Lords tour on the 8th of August 2012

http://www.randalclub.eu/en

Rabih Deaibess Joins Blaakyum

After changing many lead guitarists since 2009 (excluding the original reformation lead Elias Rahbani) and after three years of partnership with Mr. Elias Njeim, who had to depart from the band due to his personal life obligations (good luck with the music school mate) and after having the incredible Sevag Hadjian on board with us in few concerts (thank you for the support mate) our latest addition in the band is Mr. Rabih Deaibess who will be handling the lead guitars duties.

Welcome brother (literally as he is my brother) to the band, we will make sure to make your life Hell ;) welcome to your nightmare.

Bassem Deaibess

Blaakyum takes part on Musicage.org package

Music Rage is an innovative independent community site, that offers packs of music, here is there description:

"Music Rage delivers packs of albums by lesser-known, independent artists, priced with pay-what-you-like model. You decide how much you pay and how much of your cash goes directly to artists (no middlemen!), and how much goes to MusicRage.org.

There are three packs, a Metal pack, a Rock Pack, and an Alternative-Indie pack.
Choose the genre pack you want and enjoy! Just make it quick, countdown timer is ruthless."

Blaakyum's album is available as part of the Metal Pack, if you are outside Lebanon this is your chance to buy the album, along side some great underground Metal music. But hurry up, 6 days left till the package is no longer for sail.

Check out the website, and support Independent Arts \m/

Check out the website here

"First In Line" Lebanon Tour "Byblos" Diary

Our last date in the "First In Line" tour was in the ancient city of Byblos (Jbeil) and it was a nice event to end this tour, despite the fact that the venue "Beach-Bar Bay 183" is a shitty place (shitty because they lied to the organiser and bands) the event was fairly good, considering the obstacles that it passed through. The fans were wonderful, although at points a bit shy, and we loved seeing the young generation there, and the Byblos fans were as well plenty.
We were rewarded well by the fans, and the Wall of Death was phenomenal, a nice way to end our Lebanese tour.

Here is a video taken from a fan camera showing part of the show where the Wall of Death happened.
Finally we would like to thank all the 375+ fans who made it to the event. We shall see you soon.
Keep Metal alive \m/... and we shall Rise!

  

"First In Line" Lebanon Tour "Saida" Diary

What can we say about The Saida Metal scene? These people are HUNGRY for Metal, And we really enjoyed their interaction. We loved the stage and the venue! We would like to thank Maarouf Saad Cultural Centre because they supported us in a way we never expected! We were more than happy to see that there are still people in Lebanon that appreciate alternative arts no matter how that art would seem weird for them.

Saida we are DEFINITELY coming back \m/

Here is a video shot by a fan, the sound of the clip is not very good, but well this is how fan videos usually are. Cheers.

Blaakyum "First In Line" Lebanon Tour - Saida

After touring most of Lebanon we are about to land in Saida. As most of the places we go, we have no idea what to expect as most of these events are based on he local metalheads of each area, so far we have noticed that Zahle has a really bigger Metal Scene than we expected, and we have witnessed the unfortunate downfall of Tripoli Metal Scene, during the first decade of the millennium Tripoli had the best metalheads, the most enthusiastic and musically educated and the scene was in my opinion even way better than Beirut. But we have discovered in our last gig in Tripoli that things has changed and that the metal scene in Tripoli is dead.
So let us hope that Saida would far better...

Here are the event description:

As part of its "First in Line" Lebanon tour, Blaakyum will be performing @ Maarouf Saad Cultural Center in Saidai, on Saturday the 18th of May.

Opening band:

Unnamed (Rock and Blues)

Main band:
Blaakyum (Heavy/Thrash Metal)

Event start at 7:30 pm

Ticket for 10$

Tickets are available in Saida at:
AUL, AUST, LIU and the Lebanese University



Bassem Deaibess

First In Line" Lebanon Tour "Tripoli" Diary

As the tour goes one, here are some pics taken by the fans, from our Tripoli show:

Click on the picture to enlarge

"First In Line" Lebanon Tour "Beirut" Diary

We usually post a bit about each gig we are playing within this tour, so far we covered Egypt, Zahel and Der El Qamar (Lebanon), but as we were about to put our thoughts into the Beirut gig diary we saw this clip on Elias Njeim's facebook page, and we thought, this would be our diary, so we hope you enjoy it:

This Clip was created by Mr. Julien Srour, Elias Njeim's personal photographer 

Blaakyum would like to thank Julien Srour for this lovely clip.

(Footage from Blaakyum "First In Line" Tour - Beirut.
Music: Awakened Dreams (Studio Version)

A New United Dawn for Lebanese Metal

It was worth mentioning that the Middle Eastern Scene has become a major point of attraction and that it has established itself as a main contributor to the new talents in the International Metal scene and Metal music under all it's sub-genres. It is more than obvious that MENA will play a major role in the New Age of Metal and will carry on the flame. So when Blaakyum and Cenotaph were announced to perform in Metal Heads' Mission Festival 2012, it was a great thing to see two bands from the Middle East preparing to assault Ukraine with Heavy, Thrash and Death Metal.

But then came the greatest news I have ever heard since I ever became a Lebanese Metalhead; Kimaera will join the set, so we can all add Doom to the list above \m/. There are no words that can describe my joy and enthusiasm, if I was so looking forward for our show in Ukraine (the second show we give in Europe after London in 2007, and the first in Eastern Europe) now I am looking forward for it a hundred folds. Having Kimaera with us in MHM Fest in Ukraine just boosted the band and my personal feeling of pride. There is nothing greater than sharing the stage with our Brothers... Kimaera and Blaakyum will be hitting the stage in Ukraine and we cannot wait to show everyone some good skull crushing head banging Lebanese Metal.

Here is for a United Lebanese Scene \m/

Bassem Deaibess

"First In Line" Lebanon Tour Diary

After Egypt, we came back right into the "First In Line" tour of Lebanon. Our first Stop was Zahle, the Bride of the Beqaa. The event was great, the band had a blast, and so did the fans, we enjoyed the good sound system (Better than most Beirut sounds we had to deal with). The night was smooth and we were welcomed by the Beqaa Metal fans with enthusiasm. (Beqaa Promoter 4 U 2 Feel)

Next stop was Der El Qamar the capital of the Shouf mountains... What can we say, the city is a beauty that is beyond description and to be playing there in a glorious pub made of stone... We really had a blast... And we loved seeing some really old timers, great spirited Metalheads from the elder generation. (Shouf Promoter Mark Azzi)

Our next stop is Beirut at Nova club this Saturday, and we can't wait to be back to the place that gave us Birth, to our hometown... Beirut, get ready to make the world feel the earth shake \m/

The Land of the Sphinx and the golden Pyramids has been conquered

Blaakyum would like to Thank Metal Blast crew, friends and fans who made this concert a possibility, The band gave one of its best shows, and we were blown away by the enthusiasm of the fans, and we loved witnessing the Egyptian Moshpit \m/ - As we said on our facebook fan page:

"...We can't wait to tell Lebanon about the Egyptian Metal scene, you guys keep it together, and we will Rise.

We would like also to say that the Egyptian bands, Karma and Wyvern are really great... Karma with its groove metal will definitely blow the minds of our Lebanese NuMetal fans, a very tight and ambitious band.
Wyvern, is a mirror of Blaakyum in Egypt, play a very similar style, being the oldest and having pass through the similar obstacles...

And last but not least Metal Blast crew, you guys are the Heroes of the Nile... And we will always be ready to cooperate with you, such high standard organization and professionalism... You kick some serious big fat fucking ass \m/

Egypt, we can say one thing: You Rock \m/

Keep Metal Alive... For We Shall Rise \m/"

Blaakyum album is on Sale at Vibe's studio in dokki - Cairo and at Bikya Book Store.