Playing God and Other Short Stories is the seventh studio album by Israeli
death metal band
Salem, released on April 3, 2010.
The album features
At the Gates vocalist
Tomas Lindberg singing lead vocals on "The Mark of the Beast Part 2" and co-lead vocals on "The Mark of the Beast Part 1".
The album features an unusual
death metal cover to
Bob Marley's classic song "Exodus".
Note: The
Israeli edition also contains a bonus track, an adaptation to a 12th-century Jewish hymn named "Et Sha'arei Ratzon" ("Time of the Gates of Grace") by rabbi Yehuda Ben Shmuel Abbas, which tells the story of the binding of Isaac.