The Accolade - Saudi Arabia's First (?) and Only (?) All Girl Metal Band!

Ummm, whoah...

An all girl metal band is awesome enough, but an all girl metal band that could be executed for revealing their identities (!) takes awesome and ties it to a rocket and fires it directly into the sun resulting in a supernova of awesomeness the world has yet to match.

From the NYTimes:

"JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — They cannot perform in public. They cannot pose for album cover photographs. Even their jam sessions are secret, for fear of offending the religious authorities in this ultraconservative kingdom.

But the members of Saudi Arabia’s first all-girl rock band, the Accolade, are clearly not afraid of taboos.

The band’s first single, “Pinocchio,” has become an underground hit here, with hundreds of young Saudis downloading the song from the group’s Web site. Now, the pioneering foursome, all of them college students, want to start playing regular gigs — inside private compounds, of course — and recording an album."

Oh man, so awesome. First Acrassicauda, now this.

Here's the full story from the Times.

Freedom rock, y'all. Turn it up man, turn it up.

Thanks to Robert Worth over at the Times.