Play Orphaned Land Radio

Orphaned Land

On Tour

1,723,467 plays (73,026 listeners)

620 shouts

Add to my Library Share

Petah Tikva (פתח תקווה), Israel (1991 – present)

Day after day, in every news program on this planet, the Middle-East conflict is a major topic and it is one of the reasons the world we all live in is a world apart. For decades every attempt to make peace between Israel and the Arabian world has remained futile and the death toll keeps rising. Where politicians have failed, a mere metal band daringly labelling its style “Jewish Muslim Metal” or “Middle Eastern Progressive Metal” has actually achieved the unimaginable and united Israeli and Arabian people in spite of all their cultural, religious and political differences and conflicts!

Israel’s ORPHANED LAND is probably the only band from this country that has managed to succeed at building up a huge following among Muslims and Arabian people. These fans communicate freely via the band’s social networking pages, some of them even proudly bearing ORPHANED LAND tattoos, even though that puts them at huge risk in their home countries! Unfortunately, the ongoing political and military struggles still prevent ORPHANED LAND from playing in the home countries of its Arabian fans and friends.

As recent movies like “A Headbanger’s Journey” and “Global Metal” (in which ORPHANED LAND was featured) showed: the loudest, heaviest and most controversial music on earth can act as a universal language, bridging between opposites and overcoming all the obstacles that exist in our hearts and minds. The African musician Fela Kuti once said: “music is the weapon of the future” - ORPHANED LAND is the living proof of that!
Read more… Edit

Top Albums

See more

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up (it’s free).
See all 620 shouts

Videos

See more

Events

Add event See more

News

N E W S from the Orphans !!!!

12 Mar 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/orphanedmyspace

!Please forward to all your contacts!Israel’s progressive folk metal masters ORPHANED LAND are currently recording the highly anticipated follow-up to 2004’s “Mabool”, vocalist Kobi Farhi states: “Hel. …

Add comment

See more

Listeners

See more

Recent Activity

Related Journals

See more

More Information

Links
Band Members
Labels