Century Media
2004
Mabool (The Story Of The Three Sons Of Seven)
About This Album
Back from an extended, eight-year hiatus many thought would never come to an end, Israel's Orphaned Land finally completed their third album, the extensively titled Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven, for new label Century Media in 2004. Thankfully, the album's impressive -- at times unprecedented -- achievements in expanding the boundaries of heavy metal go to great lengths in justifying such a long wait. Indeed, with their ambitious, at times even improbable, efforts to incorporate native Middle Eastern musical styles into the heavy metal template, Orphaned Land stake a claim in the largely unrecognized "World Metal" subgenre, also encompassing the percussion-infused efforts of Brazilians Sepultura, the folk-dependent death metal of Finland's Amorphis, and, hitting closest to home, the "Mesopotamian Metal" of countrymen Melechesh. And yet, Mabool is arguably more diverse and experimental than many of the above artists' wildest efforts -- so eclectic, in fact, that some might argue it barely qualifies as heavy metal anymore! A concept album, no less, Mabool takes a swing at setting the Noah's Ark biblical myth to music (Mabool = "the flood," get it?), and the stage is set by the opening tandem of "Birth of the Three" and "Ocean Land," which marry beguiling Arabic melodic nuances to crushing death metal riffs, drums, and cookie-monster growls.
Track List

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