Metal Bulletin Zine

Thursday, November 12, 2026

anniversary - November 12, 2021: Belore [France] - Artefacts

anniversary - November 12, 2021: Belore [France] - Artefacts - Northern Silence Productions

"Belore is an Epic Black Metal project directly influenced by bands like Summoning, Caladan Brood, Saor, Emyn Muil and Moonsorrow, as well as various heroic fantasy and medieval worlds." -Bandcamp

anniversary - November 12, 2021: Suffocation - Live in North America

anniversary - November 12, 2021: Suffocation - Live in North America - Nuclear Blast America

"Features Frank Mullen's last live performances with Suffocation. Includes a 4-page booklet. Recording information: Recorded live during the Death Chopping North American 2018 Tour at Middle East Down in Cambridge, MA on October 22, 2018. Produced by the band. Mixed and mastered at the Grid in Montréal, Québec, Canada." -Wikipedia

Thrones of Blood (Live)

in memory of SOUND BARRIER drummer Dave Brown

November 12, 2013: RIP Dave Brown (November 8, 1960 - November 12, 2013) (David Brian Brown 1980-1987 Sound Barrier drummer)

Sound Barrier was a heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1980 by singer Bernie K. and guitarist Spacey T., along with bassist Stanley E. and drummer Dave "Skavido" Brown. They released their first album, Total Control, in 1982 on MCA Records, and an EP called Born to Rock in 1984. In 1986, Emil Lech replaced Stanley E. on bass, and the band released their final album, Speed of Light, on Metal Blade Records before breaking up in 1987.

After the band split, the members kept playing in other rock and metal groups. Bernie K. and Dave Brown joined the band Masi and later formed Total Eclipse, while Emil Lech played with Joshua and Driver. Spacey T. went on to play with Mother's Finest and Fishbone. After drummer Dave Brown died of cancer on November 12, 2013, the surviving original members reunited for a concert in Hollywood in April 2017 and released a new song called "I'm Just A Man," produced by Tom Morello.

Sound Barrier: "Rock without the Roll".mov

anniversary - November 12, 2007: Led Zeppelin - Mothership

"This band seem to have potential, they should keep it up."

anniversary - November 12, 2007: Led Zeppelin - Mothership - Atlantic Records

"Mothership is a compilation album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released by Atlantic Records and Rhino Entertainment on 12 November 2007 in the United Kingdom, and 13 November 2007 in the United States. It was released on the same day that Led Zeppelin's entire catalogue became available in digital stores, including the iTunes Store. The cover was designed by artist Shepard Fairey." -Wikipedia

"This band seem to have potential,they should keep it up." -YouTube commenter accountno.9630

Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker (Official Audio)

anniversary - Orphaned Land > The Beloved's Cry > 2011, CD, Cyclone Empire

anniversary - Orphaned Land > The Beloved's Cry > 2011, CD, Cyclone Empire (20th Anniversary Edition, Digipak)(reissue of 1993)

Where it all began in 1993! The Metal Archives shows that this is the very first release by the band. It is a demo, but what a demo!

"Orphaned Land is an Israeli heavy metal band formed in 1991. They combine Mizrahi and Maghrebi Jewish, Arabic, Turkish, and other Middle Eastern and North African musical elements, with metal (with particular influence from Yemenite Jewish and, in their early years, Moroccan Jewish music), as well as from Sephardic music, and other sounds from the Mediterranean Region." -Wikipedia

Orphaned Land - The Beloved's Cry

anniversary - November 12, 2010: Signum Regis - The Eyes of Power

anniversary - November 12, 2010: Signum Regis - The Eyes of Power - Inner Wound Recordings

This is their seconda album: "Signum Regis [2007-present] is a Slovak power metal band founded in 2007 by bass player and songwriter Ronnie König. Despite often being labelled as a power metal band, their music can also be described as melodic metal with a focus on heavy, shredding guitars. Most of the Signum Regis band members were part of a metal band called Vindex." -Wikipedia

Dura Europos

anniversary - November 12, 1991: Lita Ford - Dangerous Curves

anniversary - November 12, 1991: Lita Ford - Dangerous Curves - RCA Records

"Dangerous Curves is the fifth solo studio album by American hard rock/heavy metal singer and guitarist Lita Ford, released in 1991." -Wikipedia

Lita Ford - Larger Than Life (Official Video)

anniversary - November 12, 2013: Mortification - Scribe of the Pentateuch

anniversary - November 12, 2013: Mortification - Scribe of the Pentateuch EP (2013), CD, Soundmass (Reissue) (reissue of 2012)

"Mortification are an Australian Christian death metal band formed in 1987 as a heavy metal group, Lightforce, by bassist/singer Steve Rowe. By 1990, in the Melbourne suburb of Moorabbin, they renamed to Mortification with the line-up of Rowe, guitarist Michael Carlisle, and drummer Jayson Sherlock. Mortification have released fourteen studio albums, three compilation albums, three extended plays, six live discs, one demo album, one box set, and several videos on major record labels such as Nuclear Blast. As one of the earliest internationally successful Australian Christian death metal bands, they inspired later similar groups." -Wikipedia

Weapons of Mass Salvation

anniversary - November 12, 1984: Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers

anniversary - November 12, 1984: Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers — Polydor Records

[The Metal Archives shows November 12, 1984, while Wikipedia shows October 29, 1984] "Perfect Strangers is the eleventh studio album by English rock band Deep Purple, released on 29 October 1984. It was the most successful album recorded by the re-formed 'Mark II' line-up." -Wikipedia

Deep Purple - Wasted Sunsets

anniversary - November 12, 2021: Cân Bardd - Devoured by the Oak

"Cân Bardd is a one man Swiss atmospheric black metal project founded in 2016 with the will of crafting music rooted in deep emotions, nature and folklore. Howling mountains, misty forests and shimmering legends come alive through intense, heartfelt music." -Bandcamp

this date in German and Jewish history: Government Law Officially Forces Jews Out of Economic Life in Germany

November 12, 1938: "Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Elimination of Jews from Economic Life prohibiting Jews from selling goods and services or working in a trade, totally segregating Jews from the German economy." -Wikipedia

After organizing street violence against Jews in the 1920s, boycotting Jewish-owned businesses in 1933, purging Jewish citizens from the civil service, universities, and professions, establishing concentration camps to imprison political opponents and Jews without trial, passing the 1935 Nuremberg Laws to strip German Jews of their citizenship and outlaw marriage between Jews and non-Jews, forcing the registration and confiscation of Jewish property, and orchestrating the violent Kristallnacht pogroms across Germany and Austria on November 9–10, 1938 (burning synagogues, looting thousands of businesses, murdering dozens of Jews, and arresting roughly 30,000 Jewish men), the Nazi regime escalated its persecution by systematically forcing Jews from any remaining livelihood:

"On November 12, 1938, the German government issued the Decree on the Elimination of the Jews from Economic Life (Verordnung zur Ausschaltung der Juden aus dem deutschen Wirtschaftsleben). The decree barred Jews from operating retail stores and mail-order businesses, as well as from engaging in a trade. The law also forbade Jews from selling goods or services at markets, trade fairs, and exhibitions. This decree was one of many that the Nazi regime enacted in the aftermath of the nationwide anti-Jewish riot known as Kristallnacht. Combined, these laws and decrees almost completely removed Jews from German economic and social life." -United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

In the years that followed, this total economic and social exclusion escalated into forced emigration, mandatory wearing of the yellow Star of David, confinement in overcrowded ghettos across Nazi-occupied Europe, mass shootings by mobile killing squads (Einsatzgruppen), and ultimately the industrialized genocide of six million Jews in extermination camps during the Holocaust.

Neveloth - The Forgotten Casualties (ft. Oren Balbus)

this date in Egyptian and Jewish history

November 12, 1948: Anti-Jewish Bombings and Pogroms in Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood - A Bomb Destroys the Société Orientale de Publicité

Between June and November 1948, a wave of anti-Jewish bombings and riots struck Cairo, Egypt, killing at least 70 Jewish people, injuring nearly 200, and destroying major Jewish-owned businesses. Driven by the never-ending hatred of Israel, which is to say Jews, the attacks began on June 20 with a deadly explosion in the city's Karaite Jewish quarter that killed 22 people. Over the next several months, bombs hit prominent Jewish-owned department stores—including Cicurel, Oreco, Adès, and Gattegno—killed 19 more Jews in another Jewish quarter blast on September 22, and destroyed the Société Orientale de Publicité publishing building on November 12.

"On 12 November, shortly after the Egyptian defeat in Operation Shmone a bomb destroyed the premises of the Société Orientale de Publicité [it had Jews on its staff], a large publishing and advertising firm. Soon afterwards, the police discovered large caches of arms and explosives in the possession of the Muslim Brotherhood. The government was not strong enough to stand up to the Muslim Brotherhood, especially not while war was being fought between Arabs and Israelis.Prime Minister al-Nuqrashi did finally dissolve the subversive organization, which had half a million men under arms. On 28 December, he was assassinated, presumably by a member of the Brotherhood. It is not often remembered that Jews in Arab countries bore the fallout of revenge attacks during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In the terrible summer and autumn of 1948, some 70 Jews are estimated to have been killed, although one source puts the number of Jewish deaths in bombings and other murderous attacks at 200." - Jewish Refugees Dot Org UK

"In a 1950 trial, members of the Society were charged with carrying out all the bombings against the Jews of Cairo from June to November 1948. The prosecution argued that the bombings were part of a strategy to exploit the issue of Palestine to destabilise and undermine the regime." -Wikipedia

Neveloth - The Forgotten Casualties (ft. Oren Balbus)

in memory of Russian composer Alexander Borodin on his birthday

November 12, 1833: Alexander Borodin (Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (12 November 1833 – 27 February 1887)

"Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (12 November 1833 – 27 February 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as 'The Five', a group dedicated to producing a 'uniquely Russian' kind of classical music. Borodin is known best for his symphonies, his two string quartets, the symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia and his opera Prince Igor." -Wikipedia

Metal bands have been inspired by Borodin and some have done covers. Masterplan's song "Lonely Winds of War" is basically a cover Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances" and Russia's Aria did, in fact, do a cover of it. I think these covers are great and all, but it is best to listen to the actual Borodin work itself, too.

Alexander Borodin - Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances