Orphaned Land, the leaders of Middle Eastern metal, have announced that they will support Blind Guardian as special guests on their Euro-Tour 2015.

Kobi Farhi comments: “We are very happy to be the guests of Blind Guardian, they are one of our favorite metal bands and we are very good friends. Marcus Siepen is also going to be our guest guitarist at the Rock Hard Festival show and it seems like the fans are going to have lots of fun with this collaboration between the bands on the roads, we are thrilled and excited!”

Orphaned Land dates with Blind Guardian include:

April

10 - Eindhoven, Netherlands - Effenaar
11 - Antwerps, Belgium - Borgerhout Trix Zaal
12 - London, England - The Forum
14 - Paris, France - Bataclan
15 - Strasbourg, France - La Laiterie
17 - Bilbao, Spain - Santana 27
18 - Barcelona, Spain - St Jordi Club
19 - Madrid, Spain - La Riviera
21 - Pratteln , Switzerland - Z7
23 - Trier, Germany - Europa Halle
24 - Frankfurt/Main, Germany - Batschkapp
25 - Duesseldorf, Germany - Mitsubishi Hall
26 - Bamberg, Germany - Brose Arena
28 - Munich, Germany - Zenith
30 - Leipzig, Germany - Haus Auensee

May

1 - Stuttgart, Germany - Liederhalle Beethoven Saal
2 - Hamburg, Germany - O2 World
5 - Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
6 - Rome, Italy - Atlantico

Orphaned Land are about to hit stages to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their sophisticated concept album, Mabool.

Starting October 30th in France, singer Kobi Farhi is much exited to play all songs off the Mabool album to the European crowd and sends out the following words: “It's crazy how the time flies! Mabool is 10 years old! We are happy to celebrate this on some exclusive special shows in which we will play the whole album in a row, together with songs from all of our albums. So make sure you won't miss those special shows and the remastered CD & LP version of Mabool, see you all soon!"

Right in time for their upcoming European tour, Orphaned Land will re-release Mabool as a remastered 10th Anniversary Limited Edition including a 5-track, 27 minute acoustic live show as bonus CD. This Limited Edition will be available all across Europe in August.

Live dates:

October

30 - Strasbourg, France - La Laiterie Club
31 - Frankfurt, Germany - Nachtleben

November

1 - Gera, Germany - Sächsicher Bahnhof
2 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7 Mini
3 - Paris, France - Le Divan Du Monde
4 - Leicester, UK - Firebug
5 - Manchester, UK - Academy 3
6 - Dublin, Ireland - Voodoo
7 - London, England - The Dome
8 - Apeldoorn, Netherlands - Gigant Brainstorm Festival