[2][3] Orphaned Land have gone through several lineup changes over the years, but have retained two founding members of the band, Kobi Farhi (vocals) and Uri Zelcha (bass).

In the Arab world, metal music is part of the underground; Orphaned Land once toured in Europe with a Jordanian band who wasn't allowed to play in their home country.

In 2013, Orphaned Land toured Europe with the Palestinian band Khalas which Farhi claims proved that Jewish-Muslim coexistence is possible.

The band chose to write music that better projected this, incorporating Middle Eastern and North African melodies and folk rhythms into their sound.

The album also includes traditional Mizrahi piyyutim as songs, as well as sporadic use of Jewish liturgy, with heavier emphasis on Arabic melodies from their previous release.

It explored the themes of light and darkness, conveying the message of commonality between the three main Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam).

However, in 2001, Farhi received an email from a Jordanian fan who sent him a video of himself revealing a tattoo of the Orphaned Land logo on his arm.

Farhi, who was "shocked" by this, given the geopolitical circumstances, considers this the motivating factor to get the band back together, and began recording their next album.

[16] The Jordanian fan who sent Farhi the video came to the show in Turkey, where he brought an Arabic book written by an Egyptian sheikh about Satanism.

The book, which detailed how to avoid Satanic groups in Egypt, displayed the lyrics to an Orphaned Land song that contains verses from the Quran.

The band describes their first two concept albums as "a meeting of East and West, past and present, light and darkness, and a tango between God and Satan.

The album has a different sound than Mabool, was produced and mixed by Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree, and made free to download for any fan who lives in a "number of" MENA countries.

[1][21] The first single from the CD was titled Sapari and was put on Myspace with two other tracks, Vayehi OR and Disciples of the Sacred Oath II, a sequel to a song from the deluxe edition of El Norra Alila.

At this performance, Farhi and Fakhry held up the Israeli and Lebanese flags side-by-side at the end of the concert as a gesture of peace.

After word in Lebanon spread about this performance, Fakhry's parents expressed outrage towards her for this action, she was ridiculed online by Arab communities, and the Shia Islamist organization Hezbollah issued a death warrant to her.

On October 24, the band released a live music and video album entitled The Road to Or-Shalem, featuring recordings of this concert to celebrate their milestone.

A photo taken of her in a hijab with the lead singer of Behemoth in his corpse paint went viral, after which her parents forbade her from associating with the "metal world".

The music video depicts a Haredi Jewish man and a Muslim woman attending a Kreator concert at night, while hiding their association with the metal community from their families.

Backed by the 45-piece Israel Chamber Opera Orchestra and Noa Gruman's Hellscore Choir, they are the first Israeli metal band to ever play a concert there.