As pioneers of the Oriental metal genre for the best part of nearly two decades, Orphaned Land has become renowned internationally for fusing elements of traditional Middle Eastern music with the fundamentals of progressive heavy metal.
Remarkably, Orphaned Land are quite possibly the most popular Israelis in the Middle East, with their music attracting a huge Arab following. Orphaned Land reaches out to their Muslim fans and uses heavy metal, of all things, as a vehicle to unite enemies.
Their fans don’t forget the band’s message, as evidenced by the fans’ starting an online petition in 2012 to nominate Orphaned Land for the Nobel Peace Prize. Orphaned Land regularly plays huge shows in outdoor arenas in Turkey, where metal heads (albeit with band tattoos) travel far distances and face danger in their home countries (such as Syria and Egypt) to see their heroes perform, it’s a story that every metal head can be proud of.
Orphaned Land’s career contains many highlights. These include supporting Metallica, Amoprhis and Dio, collaborating with Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, Opeth) and playing major festivals such as Sonisphere, Hellfest and Wacken Open Air. They will be hitting Australia following a mammoth 50-show headlining run through Europe.
The tour will be in support of the recently released All Is One (Century Media, 2013), the album that frontman Kobi Farhi has deemed as “the greatest album we've made to date.”
Joining in on this holy temple of metal worship will be special guests Voyager (WA) and Orsome Welles (VIC). If their European debut of the “All Is One World Tour” is any indication of how it’ll go over in Australia, tickets are going to go quick.
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WHO:
Orphaned Land
with special guests Voyager & Orsome Welles
WHERE:
THE ESPY – Gershwin Room
DATE:
Saturday March 22nd
TICKETS:
Tickets on sale now $56+bf available from theespy.oztix.com.au,
& all Oztix outlets
