Israeli Rockers THE SECRET SAINTS – led by Los Angeles-based singer Tal Shachar and ORPHANED LAND‘s guitarist Chen Balbus – have released their new single for the song “Say Goodbye’, feat. ORPHANED LAND’s singer Kobi Farhi. ‘Say Goodbye’ is taken from their debut album, “Can You Keep A Secret?”.
Also watch ‘Love For A Night’
THE SECRET SAINTS were formed two years ago by Tal with Orphaned Land guitarist, Chen Balbus. The group also includes bassist, Dael Campbell, drummer Jonathan Alter, guitarist Omer Lempert and keyboardist Amir Sharon. Their first live performance was as support for legendary Guns N’ Roses in front of 60,000 fans in Tel Aviv in 2017
Israeli Rockers THE SECRET SAINTS – feat. ORPHANED LAND‘s guitarist Chen Balbus – have released their new single for the song ‘Love For A Night’, which will feature on debut album “Can You Keep A Secret?”, and it’s available to stream on Spotify and Apple Music. The video can be seen below.
The video for the song features Israeli actress Nesti Cherevko. Singer Tal Shachar wrote the lyrics two years ago about a woman with whom he was in a secret relationship. “She was amazing,” he said. “She had that magic inside her, that something in the eyes that I’m always looking for. It’s weird for me to say it because she was young and I knew that nothing serious could happen, but I wanted more from her. I think I actually had a crush for the first time in many year, but she didn’t want anything but a physical relationship. How’s that for a complaint?”
“After a while we didn’t talk anymore and the song is about that – like, you are the only one I want and, if you don’t want anything serious, at least let me be your love for a night.”
Watch ‘Love For A Night’ video here:
THE SECRET SAINTS were formed two years ago by Tal with Orphaned Land guitarist, Chen Balbus. The group also includes bassist, Dael Campbell, drummer Jonathan Alter, guitarist Omer Lempert and keyboardist Amir Sharon. Their first live performance was as support for legendary Guns N’ Roses in front of 60,000 fans in Tel Aviv in 2017
Oriental metal trailblazers ORPHANED LAND released their critically acclaimed new album, “Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs” at the end of January and have been supporting it with an intensive touring schedule since February. The band have already performed for fans in Europe, Russia and Japan and are set to tour the USA with Faroese metallers TYR in May.
Metal Shock Finland Senior ManagerAlison Booth caught up with guitarist Chen Balbus before they departed for the Russian leg of the “Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs” tour. The album and touring was discussed as well as an update on Chen‘s rock ‘n’ roll band THE SECRET SAINTS. Check out some excerpts below, with the full chat on the audio player:
Discussing how the album has been received, Chen stated:
“So far I’m quite proud with the reception of the audience – they loved it when we just released the first single and the second single and the third single. I did not expect that – I thought that people kinda won’t accept it ‘cos they liked the previous members and they were not trusting me and the other guys to bring something that is authentic Orphaned Land. And we pretty much succeeded to do our job and we brought if not the best Orphaned Land album.
So, people love it. People sing it in shows already, I’m proud.”
On the subject of ORPHANED LAND breaking boundaries of racial and religious divide, Chen explained:
“Yeah, pretty much every time we go in concerts we’re asking ‘alright, we’re Orphaned Land from Israel, are there any Muslims, Arabic people in the crowd? Lift your flags, tell us where you’re from’. You just see like, people coming from countries that are pretty much our neighbour countries like Lebanon, Syria, Egypt. All of those countries are like an hour drive from where I live and I can never actually visit there, but I see those guys in other countries.
So it’s something that our politicians and all those ambassadors could never achieve with all that money they got there and all those fancy talks at the UN and we just did it with goddamn heavy metal!”
On what’s coming up for the band after the summer, Chen revealed:
“We’re gonna plan the next leg of the European tour, maybe do some new locations, pretty much working on it right now. We’re already actually writing the new album as we speak. We don’t wanna let people wait five years again, so we better start. There are a couple of tracks here and there, like snippets, but we’ll get to there eventually – first we gotta rock the world!”
Due to adverse weather conditions today, ORPHANED LAND‘s official album release show at the Shuni Fortress in Israel has now been rescheduled to 13th June. Check out more information on the band’s official Facebook page.
Blackdiamond’s Metal Mayhem radio show aired an ORPHANED LAND special this week with the interview and lots of music – if you missed out it will soon be available to listen to again at this location.
Milan 5 May 2015 (courtesy of Orphaned Land Official Facebook Page)
Interview by Tarja Virmakari
Leaders of Middle Eastern metal, ORPHANED LAND, have just finished their tour with BLIND GUARDIAN, as special guests on their Euro Tour 2015. The band has been pretty busy after the latest studio album “All Is One” was released in 2013: also re-releasing a year ago the 10th anniversary concept album for “Mabool”. Furthermore last year ORPHANED LAND was nominated “Global Metal Band Of the Year” at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards.
Tarja Virmakari discussed all these topics and more with Chen Balbus, last Tuesday May 5th, when she met Chen at their show in Milan. Chen revealed also that the band is working on a new album, which is scheduled for release next year. To discover everything he told Tarja, please join the chat below.
Century Media Records have announced that ORPHANED LAND, the leaders and pioneers of Oriental Metal, will release their long awaited new studio album on June 24th (June 25th USA). The limited edition format contains a very special bonus DVD with some very exclusive music clips and an interesting documentary about the genesis and recording of “All Is One”. Check out the below link to the Century Media YouTube channel to see a brief sneak peak of the documentary:
ORPHANED LAND guitarist Chen Balbus recently posted a really cool play-along video on the new album track “Let The Truce Be Known”. Grab your guitar and check this out here:
The band is also happy to announce their upcoming European tour will be supported by KLONE (France), BILOCATE (Jordan), KHALAS (Israel/Palestine)a.k.a THE ARABIC ROCK ORCHESTRA and THE MARS CHRONICLE (France) as the opening acts. ORPHANED LAND often speak of the power of music to turn purported enemies into friends, frequently pay homage and encourage collaborations with the artists from different cultures & religious backgrounds. On “All is One” tour, you will be able to see the bands from Israel, Palestine, Jordan and France all together as one, as music must be the best religion out there, as music brings people together and it’s the only voice of hope.
Discussing how the album has been received, Chen stated:
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