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Unsung Prophets And Dead Messiahs
''Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs'' is the sixth studio album by the Israeli oriental metal band, Orphaned Land, and was released on January 26, 2018. ''Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs'' is Orphaned Land's fourth concept album, following 2010's '' The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR'', that once again utilizes the concept of light and darkness to convey its message. Described by the band's main vocalist, Kobi Farhi, as "a protest album, a very angry album," Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs is based around Plato's Allegory of the cave—that is, humanity is figuratively trapped in a dark cave; all of their truths are shadows they see in the dark cave, and they will kill anyone who tries to take them out of the cave and bring them into the light. Orphaned Land believe that this allegory still holds true today, and acts as a prophecy two-thousand years later, and thus Plato is "an ancient prophet in a way". Kobi has stated that revolutionaries and leaders are always being assassi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orphaned Land
Orphaned Land is an Israeli Heavy metal music, heavy metal band formed in 1991. They combine Mizrahi music, Mizrahi and Maghrebi Jews, Maghrebi Jewish, Arabic music, Arabic, Music of Turkey, Turkish, and other Middle Eastern music, Middle Eastern and Music of North Africa, North African musical elements, with metal (with particular influence from Yemenite Jews#Music, Yemenite Jewish and, in their early years, Moroccan Jews#Music, Moroccan Jewish music), as well as from Sephardic music, and other sounds from the Mediterranean Region. They have also included "metalized" versions of various piyyutim in all of their albums since ''El Norra Alila''. The band are considered pioneers of oriental metal. Orphaned Land have gone through several lineup changes over the years, but have retained two founding members of the band, Kobi Farhi (vocals) and Uri Zelcha (bass). Other members are Matan Shmuely (drums), Chen Balbus (guitars/Bağlama, saz) who replaced co-founding member Matti Svatizky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |