CRYPTOPSY, Ex-MORBID ANGEL Members To Join Artist NADER SADEK For 'B'doun O'mr (Ageless)'

November 4, 2009

Egyptian-born/New York-based visual artist Nader Sadek (known for his onstage creations for Mayhem's 2009 tour and SUNNO)))'s recent live events) will bring his latest work, "B'doun O'mr (Ageless)" to the stage of Santo's Party House in New York City on Saturday, November 21 (doors at 7:00 p.m., show at 9:00 p.m.). Joining Sadek for an exclusive 30-minute performance written specifically for the event will be former MORBID ANGEL vocalist/bassist Steve Tucker, CRYPTOPSY's drummer extraordinaire Flo Mounier, and guitarist Mike Lerner from BEHOLD...THE ARCTOPUS.

"B'doun O'mr (Ageless)" is the culmination of Sadek's previous projects, "Faceless" and "B'doun Wag'h", which explored the concepts such as intimidation, fear and prejudice contextualized within the underground death metal lifestyle and strict Middle Eastern society.

Sadek explained the genesis of the project prior to the first installment: "For a while now, I've been interested in exploring what different cultures perceive of as extreme. It grows out of years of walking the crowded streets of downtown Cairo dressed as a full-on death metal fan. Then, in a sort of twisted reversal, I decided to walk the streets of New York's Times Square in the black garb of a fully veiled woman. The intense reactions I got in each case confirmed for me the potential of this project. I hope that by reflecting back to the audience their paranoid fantasies, which totally oversimplify the reality of Middle Eastern and death metal culture, that my work will get them to question their own prejudices and sense of the extreme."

The many questions raised in those first two presentations have forged the path to "B'doun O'mr (Ageless)". "Now, I'm suggesting an amalgamation of two extremes, creating one creature from these two disparate cultures," says Sadek. "But while there are some parallels between those extremes, the project, to me, has now become about how the comparison is impossible. The absurdity of the perception of peripheral cultures has now fused and become one. It is a play on the misperceptions of cultures in the first two projects. Everything has been deconstructed from two and reconstructed as one."

While new creations will be visible at the "B'doun O'mr (Ageless)" performance, elements from the previous two installments will also reappear in their raw, base form and take on new contexts.

For more information on this exclusive performance, visit www.nadersadek.com.

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