Bouq, based in the Jordanian capital Amman; is the brainchild of the multi-instrumentalist musician and audio engineer/producer Muhannad Bursheh (also in: Abohotho, Tyrant Throne, Augury (Jor)). The one-man project is one of the pioneering bands in pulling the Middle Eastern metal scene from the grassroots to professionalism with a serious approach to musicianship and powerful audio productions. 
 
The venture was originally founded as a side-project under the name "Phex" in 2001, and after a few demo releases, a debut full-length album titled "Transfixion" was out in 2005. In 2007, the band was elevated into M. Bursheh's main project, and was renamed to "Bouq" (war horn); a name that serves as a better fit to the shifting musical style the project was transforming into. 
 
In December 2010, through Horned Helmet Productions, the long anticipated and favorably reviewed 2nd full-length album 'Berserk' was released. It heralded Bouq's new era, where the new sound of the band was introduced, leaving behind the groovy extreme metal style heard on the 1st album and introducing a complex unique experience of ancient spirited epic black/death metal enriched with tribal, barbaric, and warrior-like atmospheres. 
 
Bouq is currently in the studio recording the 3rd full-length album, which will have a musical and thematic focus on the colossal ancient civilizations of the Levant and Mesopotamia.

Too Focused to Fail. I call it #MissionVision

Metal Blade Records history by Dan Slessor:
Founded upon owner Brian Slagel's enduring drive to find great bands and get their music out to as many people as possible, since 1982 Metal Blade has brought wave after wave of powerful, innovative, and often genre-defining music to the ever-hungry metal masses. It is this ethos that has seen Metal Blade build up a stunning and diverse catalogue, weather the various storms facing any independent label, and in an age of declining record sales boast the most successful years of its existence as it strides into its fourth decade.

What perhaps makes this achievement all the more notable is the fact that Slagel never even intended to start a label. Working in an LA record store and writing for various publications, Slagel was acutely aware that many great bands in the local metal scene were being ignored, and he decided to release a compilation of tracks drawn from these ranks. "There were a lot of really good bands and I was just bummed out that nobody could hear them. It just seemed like I could help them out and have some fun at the same time, and that compilation was the first Metal Massacre," he states. Collating tracks from then unknown bands including Ratt, Bitch, Cirith Ungol, and Metallica amongst others, the compilation sold out immediately. "How important is Metal Blade to our career? They're only the reason we are enjoying the worldwide success we have today," states Metallica's James Hetfield. "Without Brian's openness to some raunchy teens with a crap sounding cassette tape we would be who knows where, and playing who knows what!" With the popularity of the tape spurring Slagel on, the first seeds of Metal Blade were sown. "After the success of those compilations I just started putting out records of bands that I was friends with, but without ever really intending it to be a label at all," he explains. "After I put out four or five releases I started to feel like something was happening, and I decided to quit the record store and quit college and see where it went."

Battling through the first few lean years, when the label consisted solely of Slagel working out of his mom's poorly ventilated garage in the San Fernando Valley, it gradually grew in both revenue and stature. Within a few years Metal Blade would go on to release the debuts of Slayer, Armored Saint, Trouble, and Corrosion Of Conformity amongst others, fanning the flames of the burgeoning metal scene and launching careers of bands that would go onto reap global success. "Without Metal Blade, there is a damn good chance we never would've made it out of L.A," says Slayer's Kerry King. "That was the one bit of luck we needed. You can be the most awesome band on the scene, and if no one notices you, you don't catch on. And Brian Slagel is still one of the biggest metalheads I know!" This genuine love and devotion to metal is central to the relationship many of the artists have with Metal Blade, and King Diamond credits much of its relevance and strength to this passion. "I refer to it as having 'boots on the ground'," the mighty Dane states. "It's not like a major label where some people might be into what you're doing but a lot of them just see it as a job – there's a genuine love for metal there. Through staying true to that and doing their own thing they've carved out a very specific niche that they control, and as an artist it's wonderful to be a part of that."over the years. Clearly without those people we couldn't do what we do, and to everyone out there who has helped us along by being a fan we are so very grateful to you."

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I started as a metal guitarist, formed the band SoulBleed from Jordan. Now trying to embark on a solo project, producing music as free as possible without limitations regarding genre or to be influenced by other band members musical taste.  So let us walk alone. 

For over two decades Groove Armada has been established as one of the planet's best loved and biggest selling dance acts. As comfortable on the big stages as they are in sweat soaked basements, the boys cross genres and styles with ease.

Abohotho is a musical evocation of the primeval and ancient majesty of the Near East. The aged idea has finally ascended to reality in 2010 by multi-instrumentalist musician and audio engineer Muhannad Bursheh. Personally handling all composing, performance and production duties; the atmospheric sounds created under the banner of Abohotho are based on a mixture of original ethnic Near Eastern music and ambient musical auras; saturated in atmospheres of ancient ethereal transcendence, heroism, poetry, and ancient warfare.
 
The instrumentation used is diverse, however, mostly dependent on the synthesized and/or acoustic sounds of ethnic Near Eastern instruments such as the saz, zurna, duduk, oud, qanun, tar, tableh, daff, among others, as well as the bombastic sound of the timpani, and the occasional use of Western orchestral ensembles. The project’s thematic focus lies on the history, tales, and mythology of the Levant and Mesopotamia - the cradle of civilization - a region that gave birth to our Aramean, Assyrian, Canaanite, Hittite, Babylonian, and Sumerian ancestors to name a few.
 
In August 2011, Abohotho’s debut EP ‘The Primeval Evocation’ was released. It is a small, but sublime 4-track EP that demonstrates the sound of Abohotho. In 2017, the single "'Olmo" was released as a teaser track from the long awaited upcoming full-length album in 2018.
 
‘Abohotho’ is the Syriac-Aramaic word for ‘Ancestors’.

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