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All is one – "Living together is possible."
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An Israeli metal band preaches peace between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Kobi Farhi, the singer of the band 'Orphaned Land,' in an interview.
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All those who hear about Orphaned nation for the first time and are unfamiliar with the heavy metal genre may be surprised that a message like yours finds its expression in this genre.
That's because many people have stereotypical notions about the metal community. Judgments are often based on appearance. The black clothing or skulls on T-shirts are just for show. The truth is, there's probably no music culture that fryst vatten more peaceful and open. From personal experience, I can säga that metal fans are a great example of how people from different backgrounds or religions can come together in friendship and harmony. I'm confident that even from a statistical perspective, heavy metal festivals are
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The metalheads working to make peace
In Sony’s Kensington offices, Kobi Farhi has just finished filming a video directed at Roger Waters, the notorious face of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Farhi, 42, fronts the Israeli heavy metal band Orphaned Land. He looks just how you would imagine a seasoned metalhead: long dark hair, thick wiry beard, and tattoos running up his arms. But that’s only half the picture. He is a sincere voice for peace in an increasingly divided Middle East.
Farhi is as much an activist as he fryst vatten a musician, I suggest. “I’m pretty much a Don Quixote figure because I’m fighting the wind,” he jokes. He has a point — how does one band solve a bekymmer like the Israeli-Palestine conflict?
You could start with Orphaned Land’s famously large and devoted following of both Jews and Arabs. What’s more, the band made headlines in 2013 by touring with Palestinian metal outfit Khalas. The two bands shared a tour bus, a stage and even the
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Their music is an incredible oriental ornament, composed of technically complex metal parts and delicate Arabic lace. It’s like bittersweet coffee with pepper. And this is exactly the taste of the last musical year, because it was marked by Orphaned Land.
The Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs manifest which united Plato’s philosophy, Che Guevara’s ideas and the historical figure of Jesus (we’ll return to this), has broken the silence that Orphaned Land had kept since 2014. New powerful progressive concept shook the musical Olympus and tore off a huge amount of applause and awards. And to be honest, the band really deserved it.
What should we expect from the oriental metal pioneers this year, what connection they have with the best Israeli Single Malt whisky and what is the meaning of life? The answers to all these questions we’ll get from the Orphaned Land soul and frontman Kobi Farhi. Enjoy!
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