Israel's top metal exports Orphaned Land aren't in the music business. They're diplomats, serving a higher purpose. In a special feature for HEAVY Mag, I interview singer Kobi Farhi about the emerging brotherhood of metal in the Middle East. Despite intifada, despite rusted-on hatred and despite being banned all over the Arab world, Kobi and his band have brought Arabs and Jews together with song.
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I am uncontainably overjoyed to announce my piece on ESCAPE, Australia's most successful and forgotten metal band, is up on Mess+Noise. It's been a mind-blowing journey getting this story together from the guys. The guys who lived three years of super-stardom from 1984 to 1987 only to have it all taken away. The metal and even music averse will find this story incredible.
Oh my sweet maternal... Well, here's the 20th 'dish of the mighty bold and pink type HYSTERIA Magazine, a magazine of tasteful thickness unrivalled by shitty 60gsm half-matte saddle-stitch rags. A mag of no compromises, hugging or learning. It's the BUMPER Soundwave '14 edition and I snagged sit-downs with Behemoth, Kill Devil Hill, Generation Kill, Iced Earth, Rotting Christ, Periphery, Korn, Gojira, GWAR, Baroness, Mastodon and Howard Jones' new nautically-inclined trio, Devil You Know. You can take a breath now. Out now in digital and analog. Though analog costs more, it smells better.
“The universe is change, life is what our thoughts make it.”
