Orphaned Land is a Progressive metal band from Israel whose music contains Middle-Eastern influences.
Orphaned Land fuse doom and death metal as well as Middle-Eastern folk music and tradition. The eastern influences tend to overrun the heavy metal roots of the music, either attracting or alienating listeners.
Doom/Death/Folk Metal (old), Middle-Eastern Folk Metal (new)

	Orphaned Land – Mabool – The Story of The Three Sons of Seven 2005 @320 kbps Links: part1, part2 Archive is corruped so track-08 singly: 08 – Nora El Nora: ShareOnAll || iFolder
	Orphaned Land – El Norra alila 1996 @320 kbps Links: part1, part2
	Orphaned Land – Sahara 1994 @320 kbps Links: part1, part2|| ShareOnAll: part1, part2

Some more info
Orphaned Land is in the core a doom/death band, but it was highly influenced by the folk music and tradition of the Oriental Jews (Mizra?im), making their sound much more progessive than typical doom/death bands. Their album Sahara (1994) was the first to include a combination of death metal and traditional oriental music. In their second album El Norra Alila (1996), Orphaned Land elaborated the combination of metal and oriental music, including the addition of song with traditional oriental Jewish piyyut and Arab melodies. This album conveyed a message of co-existence between Jews and Muslims. Their third album, Mabool (the Hebrew name for the Deluge, depicted in the bible and Noah’s story), 2004, was worked for seven years and takes the combination of doom/death metal, oriental music and biblical issues to a new level. The album tells the story of three sons (one for each monotheistic religion) which try to warn humanity from a coming flood (deluge) as punishment for their sins. Musically, the album contains oriental instruments, two choruses, traditional Yemenite chants sung by Shlomit Levi and quotes of Biblical verses from the story of the deluge, read by Kobi Farhi, Orphaned Land’s vocalist and one of its founders. The level of musical competency displayed in the heavy layering and orchestration combined with the more story-drive, conceptual nature of the album’s lyrics as a whole lend a very strong progressive feel to the work.

Posted on 20.01.07 by Doost