'El Norra Alila' is Orphaned Land's greatest work to date.
Two years after debuted with their groundbreaking 'Sahara', the band released their second album and reinvented themselves with a different, unique atmosphere that you'll find only in 'El Norra Alila'.
Gone are all the doomy influences and the songs got much shorter than before. This album actually stands out for it's different character than their earlier efforts, which were written only several years before this album came out. What a great change in such a short period of time indeed.
The spinal column of this album is definitely the guitars of 'Yossi' and 'Matti'. The riff work of this album is somehow genius. This album feels very monolithic due to the endlessly and perfectly flowing of the guitars, which are so plentiful and unique
sounding. They are just brilliantly composed. There are no verse-chorus songs here, all of this album is a brutal, melodic and sweeping continuity of briliiant ideas which merging together flawlessly and creating together a great wall of majestic atmosphere that will blow your mind for countless listenings. So yeah, if you like quality riffs, you'll die on this album.
The vocals on this album are a sheer improvement. 'Kobi Farhi' reveals here as a great and highly abundant vocalist. His growls are brutal than ever but they remain very comprehensible at the same time. But the highest plus here is the obvious using of clean vocals. As opposed to 'Sahara', where the clean vocals were most of the time used as a speaking voice or had some short melodies here and there, here the clean vocals takes a much bigger part and are way better than before.
The vocals had been recorded in different channels, contains a splendor of different ideas which are being balanced together and creating a beautiful harmonies. Tracks like 'The Truth Within', 'The Path Ahead' and 'Thee By The Father I Pray' contains a brilliant usage of emotional, soaring vocals among with harsh growling and adding a rich layers of emotions for the fluidly marvelous riffs.
Sami Bachar's drumming is also pretty complex and brutal. There are quite much breakdowns and ideas that weren't presented before and increase a lot to the overall flowing of this album.
It really doesn't matter how much I'm gonna talk about this album, or how much you gonna read about it. Words can't transfer enough well the deep emotions reflected from this astonishing, underrated album. If you still haven't heard 'El Norra Alila', than you simply missed something unique that can't be found anywhere else, and is worth a fortune.
Simply get this album and let yourself wander deep into the hypnotic atmosphere of 'El Norra Alila'...literally, it's an unparalleled expirence. 9.5/10
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