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Meytal Cohen

Meytal Cohen is an Israeli-American drummer known for her online drum cover videos and as a founding member of the heavy metal band Meytal.

born 1983Online drum cover videosFounding the band MeytalThe 2015 album Alchemy

Born: 9 August 1983, Ramat Gan
Occupation: drummer
Education: Los Angeles College of Music

Meytal Cohen was born in 1983 in Ramat Gan

Meytal Cohen was born in Ramat Gan on August 9, 1983. She is the youngest of 7 children, and her parents were born in Iraq.

She studied tap dance and finished a theater major at Blich High School in Ramat Hen. At 18 she began playing drums and served in the IDF for 2 years. At 20 she moved to Los Angeles and studied percussion at the Los Angeles Music Academy.

After her studies she played in the band Metaphor, which toured Australia, the United States, Mexico, South America and Europe in 2007. In 2010 she started an online project of drum covers of rock and metal songs. The videos drew more than 100 million views.

In 2013 she ran a Kickstarter campaign called Breaking YouTube to fund original music. It raised US$144,341 from 3,173 backers. Her band Meytal released its first album, Alchemy, in 2015, and it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.