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Refused
World Exclusive Hall of Fame: The Shape of Punk to Come
Featuring
Kingdom of Sorrow, Anathema, Call & Response with Soilwork, Decrepit Birth, Xasthur, The Sword, Norma Jean, Q&A with Aaron Turner, Streetwise: San Francisco, the making of Refused's The Shape of Punk to Come
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D.I.S., Pathology, Zoroaster, Wolvhammer, Rottenness, Lantlôs, Kruger
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Orphaned Land
Israeli progressive metal sextet awakens the warrior within
Yemenite Jewish liturgical music set to crunchy metal riffs. Double-kick drums ceding to Middle Eastern hand percussion. Glistening acoustic passages and soaring guitar solos. This is the colorful sound world of Orphaned Land’s fourth album, The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR. It’s the biggest, boldest statement of the Israeli band’s career, and according to frontman Kobi Farhi, that massive scope is all part of the concept. “From a musical level, it is heaven on earth,” Farhi says about ORwarriOR, which has him singing and growling in English, Hebrew and Arabic. “We wish that people will live that way.” It’s the kind of pan-cultural aesthetic that Orphaned Land have embraced since their debut.
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