Metalsucks — Band unveils incredibly subtle new album art. more info

Metal Injection — I can't believe the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise is only like two weeks away. In the last few weeks, a few awesome bands have been added to the lineup: Crowbar, Kataklysm, Orphaned Land, Channel Zero, Annihilator have been added to the already aw... more info

Metalsucks — Jon Galuchie Langhorne, PA wins Night 6 of Heavy Metal Hanukkah for correctly naming Orphaned Land as the band whose music is featured in the video we posted of the very zexy woman showing off her belly-dancing moves. Jon wins the new Arch/Mathe... more info

Metalsucks — Because we have a video of a lady belly dancing to Orphaned Land. Enjoy: -AR Thanks to Andrew Robbins for the clip! more info

Reuters — BAT YAM, Israel/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Israeli heavy metal is rocking Turkey despite deep discord between the Jewish state and its Muslim former ally as hundreds of fans turned out to hear a group called Orphaned Land play a concert in Istanbul. more info

Metalsucks — Once upon a time I pitched Mike Portnoy (through his people) on doing a “Jew on Jew” interview and he turned me down, that persnickety bastid (the Jew on Jew concept did up yielding some fun interviews with Daath’s Eyal Levi [before he was an M... more info

Metalsucks — When I interviewed Kobi Farhi, vocalist for the Israeli metal band Orphaned Land, last year, he had some really interesting things to say about the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians: he claimed that Orphaned Land “has a legion of A... more info

Metalsucks — It was interesting looking at the answers people submitted for last night’s trivia question. A lot of people guessed Daath, who only have one Jewish member (the question specified that the band has ALL Jewish members); a lot of other people guessed... more info

Metalsucks — Mazel tov to reader Noah Mezsick, who correctly identified the first night of Hanukkah’s trivia question — yes, Orphaned Land’s Kobi Farhi is the poor musician that I accidentally introduced to frum porn earlier this year. I hear he’s had n... more info

Metalsucks — If you think all Israeli metal sounds like Orphaned Land, well, you got another thing comin’. The raw, heaving, miserable fucking sludge of Dukatalon marks them as The Holy Land’s most unholy trio; they’ve been likened to Eyehategod, and it’s... more info