Musical Style
Salem's music is a combination of doom/death metal (slow-paced death metal) with oriental elements and high-pitched screaming-vocals (distorted hoarse screams). Riffing, henceforth, can range from slow and heavy doom metal riffing to very fast and rapid death metal riffing. This sound evolved from Salem's original style (first two demos), which was old-school black metal. Salem's latest two studio albums are much heavier than their former LP's.
In some songs, Salem uses oriental (Jewish and Middle-eastern) melodies, such as "Act of Terror," "Al Taster," and the intro for "Ha'ayara Bo'eret." In Collective Demise, female vocals were combined with Tananboim's singing.
Salem has thus far recorded two songs in Hebrew: Mordechai Gebirtig's "Ha'ayara Boe'ret," and "Al Taster", taken from Psalms. These along with some Orphaned Land songs are among the few extreme metal songs sung in Hebrew.
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