Can anyone describe Orphaned Land?

[SoundMaster]

I continually read "album of the year" reviews on this band, and their record "Mabool" (I think?), and am very intrigued.

Any of you old-school dudes ever hear this?

 

[Trans-Siberian Outcast]

Hell Yeah! Another of my new favorite bands. Mabool just plain kicks ass in every way. It's a very versatile album, so it may not be for everyone.

It is very progressive, but not in the Dream Theater sense...it's somewhere between Savatage and Ayreon. The album contains everything from borderline death metal to middle-eastern folk and chanting. There is some growling in it, but but only in context with the story. If you don't like death metal vocals, don't be scared off. I don't care for grunts and growls at all, but I have no problems listening to Mabool. The clean vocals probably outweigh the death by about 5 to 1.

The heavy stuff is fast, but still pretty much upper mid-tempo. Nothing really speedy here, not like power/speed or death/thrash metal bands. The riffs are crunchy and very melodic. The mellower stuff has some incredible acoustic stuff courtesy of their very talented songwriter/guitar player, Yossi.

You can download their song "Ocean Land" from the Century Media website at:
http://mp3.centurymedia.com/OrphanedLand_OceanLand_Mabool.mp3

There is also a 60meg video available for that song, if you have high speed internet. Ocean Land is a perfect example of the various faces of Orphaned Land, all wrapped up into one song. It starts with acoustic, and then mixes in the various vocal styles. Only thing missing is the girl who does arabic chants during parts of the album.

 

[Jean-Pierre]

Pretentious dribble with a cheesy sense of ethnicity.

 

[Walter_Langkowski]

Sounds pretty promising. I'll have to pick up the new one.

 

[SoundMaster]

Hell Yeah! Another of my new favorite bands. Mabool just plain kicks ass in every way. It's a very versatile album, so it may not be for everyone.

It is very progressive, but not in the Dream Theater sense...it's somewhere between Savatage and Ayreon. The album contains everything from borderline death metal to middle-eastern folk and chanting. There is some growling in it, but but only in context with the story. If you don't like death metal vocals, don't be scared off. I don't care for grunts and growls at all, but I have no problems listening to Mabool. The clean vocals probably outweigh the death by about 5 to 1.

The heavy stuff is fast, but still pretty much upper mid-tempo. Nothing really speedy here, not like power/speed or death/thrash metal bands. The riffs are crunchy and very melodic. The mellower stuff has some incredible acoustic stuff courtesy of their very talented songwriter/guitar player, Yossi.

You can download their song "Ocean Land" from the Century Media website at:
http://mp3.centurymedia.com/OrphanedLand_OceanLand_Mabool.mp3

There is also a 60meg video available for that song, if you have high speed internet. Ocean Land is a perfect example of the various faces of Orphaned Land, all wrapped up into one song. It starts with acoustic, and then mixes in the various vocal styles. Only thing missing is the girl who does arabic chants during parts of the album.

Thanks for the link. The samples were awesome, the tune "Ocean" is BRILLIANT! This CD will be my next purchase!

thanks

 

[Trans-Siberian Outcast]

If you like Ocean Land, you're good to go. My favorite part of the disc is the second half, where the instrumental parts outweigh the vocals...the music speaks for itself.

The version of Mabool I've got has a bonus disc with it, a 25-minute live recording of an acoustic show they did a couple years back. Great stuff.