Kahtmayan is a metal band from Iran. A 2007 profile notes that guitarist Homayoon Majdzadeh had written much of its music before the band began.1
Recordings
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Life & work
Instrumental metal
In a 2014 interview, the band described beginning with progressive metal, then turning to instrumental music in response to conditions in Iran. The band said it moved toward thrash metal with Exir.2
Live in Studio: The Last Station
This DVD and CD package documents an Exir performance at Tehran's BAM Studio on January 16, 2006, alongside the instrumental album on CD. Encyclopaedia Metallum catalogs the video as an independent 2006 release.13
Sources
- 1Kahtmayan: Live in Studio - The Last Station
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Kahtmayan started in January 2003 in Iran, although much of the music was written by Homayoon Majdzadeh (guitarist) before that time.
"Kahtmayan: Live in Studio - The Last Station" is a documentary DVD + CD package includes a full-length DVD featuring tracks from the "Exir" album in a live performance at the BAM Studio, Tehran, January 16, 2006, plus the entire "Exir" instrumental album on CD with 8 blistering audio tracks from Kahtmayan including "Xenophobia" and "Auricle" which features Nahid Atefi, a female Heavy Metal guitarist from Iran.
- 2An interview with Kahtmayan
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We started as a progressive metal band; however, the situation in Iran made us an Instrumental band.
Then we shifted to a style more of thrash metal with our album Exir.
- 3Kahtmayan - Live in Studio: The Last Station
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Live in Studio: The Last Station Kahtmayan Type: Video Release date: 2006 Catalog ID: N/A Label: Independent Format: DVD