Orphaned Land

The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR

Acrassicauda split 7-inch: Let’s do it | Century Media

The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR is such an enchanting heavy metal experience that it’s unfortunate how much of the way the album is approached and marketed will—at least initially—be driven by something other than the music. Of course, to be fair, an Israeli band declaring itself “Jewish Muslim Metal” isn’t exactly shying away from non-music-centric controversy. And singer Kobi Farhi did choose to dress like Jesus, complete with crown of thorns, in Orphaned Land’s every-member-choose-a-religious-costume promo pictures—a Kanye West complex?—never mind pen a concept record about a man who awakens “from the global coma humankind is in” during a pilgrimage to divided Jerusalem, where he and other similarly enlightened souls ultimately “explode themselves into an endless light, healing everything around them.” Farhi explains, “This is why we call them: ‘terrorists of light.’”

—Shawn Macomber

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