Founded by a young guitarist who adopted the alias “Ashmedi” in the city of Jerusalem back in 1993, MELECHESH have always been a visionary band that invented a genre of its own. Melding raw black metal with Mediterranean drum patterns and guitar scales, a phenomenal demo and a 7” EP emerged which gained the band their first following. However the first album “As Jerusalem Burns… Al’Intisar” was the one to put Jerusalem and Bethlehem on the map of extreme metal, making MELECHESH the first non-Israeli metal band from the Middle East to get signed – and the first ever metal band out of Jerusalem with a record deal.