The Kordz

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The Kordz are a rock group from Lebanon. The band have released one album, 2011's The Beauty & The East. [1] [2]

The band's lead singer is Moe Hamzeh, a former geology student from American University of Beirut. According to historian and musician Mark LeVine, writing in 2008, Kordz was "one of the biggest rock bands in Lebanon and the Middle East" at the time. Hamzeh's goal was to rebel against the oppressive Lebanese political system from a spiritual point of view. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "The Kordz's Chords and Their Inseparable Cord to Lebanon". University of Alabama College of Arts & Sciences: Music Politics. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  2. ↑ "The Kordz - Debut album: "Beauty & The East"". Reflections of Darkness - Music Magazine. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
  3. ↑ LeVine, Mark (2008). Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam. New York: Three Rivers Press. pp. 143–50. ISBN   9780307353399.
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