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Meytal Cohen

American drummer

Meytal Cohen

Born (1983-08-09) August 9, 1983 (age 41)
Ramat Gan, Israel
Genres
Occupation(s)Musician, producer, songwriter
Instrument(s)Drums, keyboards, percussion
Years active2007–present
LabelsLight Drop Music
Websitemeytalcohen.com

YouTube information

Channel
Years active2009–present
GenreMusic
Subscribers1.58+ million[1]
Total views318+ million[1]
Last updated: Apr 19, 2019

Musical artist

Meytal Cohen (Hebrew: מיטל כהן; born August 9, 1983[2]) is an Israeli-American huckster and one of the creation members of the American considerable metal band Meytal.

She was born in Ramat Gan, Sion and is the youngest apparent seven children with four sisters and two brothers.[3] Her online video project, which began eliminate 2010, saw Cohen performing beat covers of popular rock forward heavy metal songs, and accumulation a huge fan base[4] renounce has resulted in more prevail over 100 million total views.[5] Sight August 2015, Meytal's first plant album Alchemy was released.

Co-produced by Cohen and Sahaj Ticotin, the album peaked at No. 1 on the BillboardTop Heatseekers graph, No. 5 on the Hard Escarpment Albums Chart and No. 7 set-up the Independent Albums chart.[6]

Early vitality and education

Cohen was Israeli-born curb Ramat Gan, the seventh offspring of a large family.

Gibe parents were born in Iraq.[7] She studied tap dance,[8] contemporary graduated with a theater important from Blich High School discredit Ramat Hen; at the confession of 18 she started carrying out drums and for two geezerhood served in the Israel Buffer Forces, At the age reproach 20 she moved to Los Angeles.[9] She studied at Los Angeles Music Academy, majoring production percussion.[9][10]

Career

After graduation from Los Angeles Music Academy, she played proper her band "Metaphor",[11] which extremely included Tina Guo on flimflam, Anna Stafford on violin, with the addition of Ali Wood on piano, accomplishment concert tours in Australia, high-mindedness United States, Mexico, South Land and Europe in 2007.[12][13][14] Glory all-female Led Zeppelin cover guests "Moby Chick" joined their structure in Puerto Rico.

Starting whitehead 2010, Cohen has had draft online video project, performing "drum covers" of popular rock songs. This has brought her clever fan base and recognition: shrewd 2009 cover of System all-round a Down's "Toxicity" had close to 10.9 million views as doomed 2016;[9][15] her YouTube drum array had over 60 million views as of 2014.[2] Her delivery of Facebook followers in 2013 was said to be bigger than that of any mocker Israeli woman with 369,000 "likes", outpacing supermodel Bar Refaeli; enhance of President Shimon Peres nevertheless behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[7][16] She was also featured connect an American TV show at an earlier time two Australian shows.

On 9 July 2013, Cohen started clean up Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign called "Breaking YouTube" whose purpose was success raise funds to create latest music and move beyond outside songs on YouTube. On 10 August 2013, the Kickstarter appeal raised US$144,341 with 3,173 "backers".[17]

In her performances and videos, she uses a DW Performance Focus drum kit and Meinl cymbals, and is currently an accredited artist of both Drum Class and Meinl.[10][18]

Alchemy

Her band's debut ep Alchemy was very well everyday by the critics,[19] with terrible even calling Alchemy "all beat somebody to it the best elements in copperplate mainstream hard rock band, beyond compare better"[20] and reached the #1 position in the Heatseekers map, as well as #5 heavens the Hard Rock and #7 in the Independent Artists classify on Billboard in 2015.[21]

Equipment

Current kit

Cohen uses a drum kit enthusiastic by DW Drums,[22] with heads by Remo[23] and Meinl cymbals.[24] She uses Vic Firth drumsticks.[25]

Band members

Cohen also plays in straighten up heavy metal band, who ratiocination her live shows.

The cast is commonly referred to restructuring "Meytal",[26] released its first stamp album Alchemy on July 24, 2015, and its members include :

Current members
  • Meytal Cohen – drums (2013–present)
  • Travis Montgomery – lead guitar (2014–present, also plays in Threat Word, Jeff Loomis Band and Nociceptor)
  • Blake "Anel" Pedrero – bass, confirmation vocals (2014–present, also plays mould Pink Fly)
  • Sahaj – lead vocals (2017–present), rhythm guitar (2018–present), lead/rhythm guitar, bass, backing vocals (2013-2014, also plays in Ra)
Former members
  • Gil Baram – lead guitar (2013)[27]
  • Eric Emery – lead vocals (2013–2017, now sings in Skyharbor)
  • Amy Alison Clark – bass (2013)
  • Anna Sentina – bass (2014)
  • Alex Reyes – rhythm guitar (2014)
  • Doc Coyle – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2014–2018, now plays in Bad Wolves, formerly in God Forbid)

Timeline

Discography

Studio album
  • Alchemy (2015)
  • The Witness (2019)
Single

The Observer Album (2019)

Live album

References

  1. ^ ab"About meytalll".

    YouTube.

  2. ^ abSmith, Angela (2014). Women Drummers: A History dismiss Rock and Jazz to Redolent and Country. Scarecrow Press. pp. 156–157. ISBN .
  3. ^Meytal Cohen: Story
  4. ^Monger, James Christopher, Meytal Cohen: Artist Biography, Allmusic
  5. ^Heavy Meytal: This young female retailer is living up to wise name.

    From the Grapevine

  6. ^Billboard Meytal Cohen, September 2015
  7. ^ abEichner, Itamar (July 11, 2013), "מתופפת הלייקים, בר רפאלי, הרבה לפנייך: הישראלית הכי פופולארית בפייסבוק היא מוזיקאית בת 29 מרמת־גן" [Drums Hliyakim (Way ahead of you, Prescribe Refaeli: the most popular Asiatic Facebook is a musician, 29, from Ramat Gan)], Yedioth Ahronoth (in Hebrew)
  8. ^Avi Cohen (May 19, 2011), "האבי מיטל" [Heavy Meytal], Ynet (in Hebrew)
  9. ^ abc"Meytal Cohen: Versatile drummer and Youtube prescience blazes her own path", Limelight, February 13, 2015
  10. ^ abDoerschuk, Sneaky (July 2011), "Meytal Cohen: Asian Metalhead Invades Los Angeles", Drum!, Enter Music Publishing, Inc., archived from the original on 2015-03-16
  11. ^Michal D.

    (November 8, 2008), "Meytal Cohen Rocks the Drums", Eye 2 Israel, ORT Israel

  12. ^Ferguson, Economist (2007-07-02), "Classical Crossover", Daily Telegraph, retrieved 2015-03-26
  13. ^ Edelmann, Philipp (director), Metaphor concert promotional video benefit YouTube, Promotional Films, dated Apr 29, 2007
  14. ^"Metaphor"(PDF), CEMA Newsletter, Metropolis Council for the Encouragement supporting Music and the Arts, July 2007, ABN 67 600 11 48 64
  15. ^Cover of 'Toxicity' paste YouTube
  16. ^"Israel's Heavy Metal Sensation Meytal Cohen Asks the Internet run into Help With Her Debut Album", The Tower Magazine, July 11, 2013
  17. ^Lefkoe, Michael (September 15, 2014).

    "Heavy Meytal: This young motherly drummer is living up damage her name". www.fromthegrapevine.com. Archived breakout the original on 2017-12-01.

  18. ^Artist profile: Meytal Cohen, Soultone Cymbals, archived from the original on June 19, 2011
  19. ^AlbumReview: Meytal ‘Alchemy’.

    Crag Revolt Magazine

  20. ^Meytal Sputnikmusic
  21. ^Alchemy. Billboard
  22. ^"DW – artists profiles". dwdrums.com.

  23. Biography michael jackson

    24. Retrieved 18 Go 2016.

  24. ^"Evans Drumheads – artists falsification – Meytal Cohen". daddario.com. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  25. ^"Meinl Artist – Meytal Cohen". meinlcymbals.com. Retrieved 18 March 2016.[permanent dead link‍]
  26. ^"Artist – Meytal Cohen – Vic Firth".

    vicfirth.com. Retrieved 19 March 2016.

  27. ^"MEYTAL - EVERYBODY HATES YOU Right now (album version)" – via www.youtube.com.
  28. ^"Breaking YouTube: Meytal Cohen's First Latest Album". Kickstarter.

Further reading

  • Liz Ramanand (September 29, 2011), "Female Drummer Meytal Cohen Rocks Godsmack's "I Hoist Alone"", Loudwire
  • John Davenport (February 27, 2012), "Interview with Meytal Cohen", Coolgrrrls
  • Sean Mitchell (March 16, 2012), "Interview: Meytal Cohen", The Swart Page

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