Orphaned Land Announces New Album, “The Never Ending Way
Of ORwarriOR,” Release Date
Israel’s Orophaned Land will release their highly-anticipated
fourth studio opus, “The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR,” in Europe
on January 25th, 2010. Mixed by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree,
Opeth), who is also responsible for several keyboard parts on the
new album, “The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR” turns out to be a
concept album taking Orphaned Land's unique brand of exotic, heavy
music to soaring new heights in terms of complexity and
catchiness.
Vocalist Kobi Farhi comments on the album’s concept and the new
promo photo:
“As people that were born into the tragedy of our region, we have
always been devoted to creating harmony between conflicts, a
musical heaven on earth, a tango between God & Satan. Even in
the album’s artwork we combined Hebrew and Arabic, regardless of
the fight between Jews and Muslims. I found a Jordanian guy,
specialized in calligraphic artwork. He took letters from Hebrew
and Arabic and moulded them in his art to create a symbol of peace.
Same goes for our band photo, where we portrayed a synergy between
the three monotheistic religions, that believe in the same God and
yet, ridiculously have been killing each other for centuries 'in
the name of God' and turned the holy land into an orphaned land.
Naturally we continued this idea of union on a musical level as
well and the result is as always crazy, it's a miracle – in our
concerts: our Jewish fans sing in Arabic and our Muslim fans sing
in Hebrew, brave friendships have spawned and our Middle Eastern
metal music destroys all this political witchcraft we have been
trapped in for so long. This is a musical journey of hope in lands
of war, creating heaven on earth, building a new Jerusalem.”