On February, 9th 2010 (January 25th in Europe) Israel’s ORPHANED LAND will release their fourth studio opus, The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR. Mixed by Steven Wilson (PORCUPINE TREE, OPETH), who is also responsible for several keyboard parts on the new album, The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR turns out to be a sophisticated concept album taking the band’s unique brand of exotic, heavy music to soaring new heights in terms of complexity and catchiness.

The band is preparing to launch a series of introspective webisodes documenting the making of the album and the first album trailer can be viewed below. This clip features some commentary from Steven Wilson and the band mixed in with live performance footage from Tel Aviv and stay tuned to this YouTube page as they'll be updating it with new videos leading up to the album’s release.

Head over now to www.myspace.com/orphanedmyspace to view the band’s controversial new photos and see below for the album’s official track listing.

Part I

Godfrey's Cordial – an ORphan's life

'Sapari'

'From Broken Vessels'

'Bereft In The Abyss'

'The Path Part 1 – Treading Through Darkness'

'The Path Part 2 – The Pilgrimage To Or Shalem'

'Olat Ha'tamid'

Part II

Lips Acquire stains – The warriOR awakens

'The Warrior'

'His Leaf Shall Not Wither'

'Disciples Of The Sacred Oath II'

'New Jerusalem'

'Vayehi Or'

'M I ?'

Part III

BARAKAH – enlightening the Cimmerian

'Barakah'

'Codeword: uprising'

'In Thy Never Ending Way (Epilogue)'

Vocalist Kobi Farhi comments on the album’s concept and the striking new promo photo as follows: “First of all, I wish to thank each and every one of you for all the comments you left for our new band photo. The comments were from Jews, Christians and Muslims as one, you all know that this unification is what we’re all about - here is the tracklist for our new album, as you can see it's long and it's a three chapter story that is waiting for you. We salute you all!”

Farhi continues: ''The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR is a concept album revolving around a hero: the warrior of light. This hero isn't someone specific, but could be the listener of the album himself, as this album deals with the problems we are facing in our lives every day. Especially here, in the Middle East, we feel that we are trapped in a loop of confusion and darkness. Living in this region, we see that year after year nothing changes. People continue to die in useless wars and we are trapped in a bloody circle. Orphaned Land has been around for 18 years and we continue to sing about the same subjects and stories, because after 18 years we are still living in a tragic, orphaned land. To fight this tragedy we have chosen a peaceful, yet powerful weapon: our music.”

Israel's Orphaned Land are probably the only band from this country that has managed to succeed at building up a huge following among Muslims and Arabian people. These fans communicate freely via the band’s social networking pages, some of them even proudly bearing Orphaned Land tattoos, regardless of the possible consequences facing them in their home countries. The African musician Fela Kuti once said: "music is the weapon of the future" - Orphaned Land are living proof of that.