ARTmania Festival Sibiu 2013 announces line-up

Newsroom 14/01/2013 | 12:51

The first two bands were confirmed for the eight edition of the ARTmania Festival Sibiu: Orphaned Land, the first metal act to enrich the line-up with the traditional touch of the Middle East and Amaranthe (in picture), the Sweden’s newest modern melodical metal sensation.

ARTmania Festival brings together artists from all over the world, promoting the intercultural exchange in one of the most beautiful medieval citadels in Eastern Europe: Sibiu. For eight years now, ARTmania’s cultural platform was able to offer art amateurs a varied cultural program of concerts, exhibitions, workshops and other events dedicated to the fine arts. ARTmania Festival 2013 is an event co-financed by the local Council of Sibiu through the city hall and the Cultural House of Sibiu Municipality.

Orphaned Land is considered to be one of the most influential metal bands in the Middle East. With over 20 years of activity and an eclectic musical style blending elements of  progressive metal with oriental traditional passages, the band proposes ”a musical journey of hope in lands of war, creating heaven on earth,” as vocalist Kobi Farhi said. Founded in 1991 under the original name Ressurection, Orphaned Land rapidly caught attention at an international level, through a unique mature metal sound mixed with exotic instrumentation, praised with each of the 3 EPs and 4 studio albums released along their career.

Their fourth album, entitled “The Never Ending Way Of  ORwarriOR”, is an epic manifesto that took over 5 years of great work and plenty of hours spent in the studio cooperating with The Arabic Orchestra of Nazareth. The result is a complex and sophisticated disc produced alongside the well-skilled Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, Opeth), who played keyboards and mixed the album. “The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR”, alternates profound arrangements with accessible melodies and captivating riffs. Its original exotic touch is given by the presence of various instruments specific to the Middle East, such as saz, santur, arabian flutes, middle-eastern percussions, combos, bouzouki, violins and different kinds of guitars, and the usage of  multilingual vocals singing in English, Hebrew, Arabic and Yemenite.

The music of Amaranthe fuses the most cutting edge of melodic metal with catchy choruses and the fascinating performance of its singer Elize Ryd, making the band remarkable for its spectacular shows, but also for their studio recordings. “Leave Everything Behind” is the band`s first demo, released in 2009. With members originating from Sweden and Denmark, Amaranthe rapidly conquered Northern Europe. In 2011, after the release of their synonymous debut album, they`ve embarked on an European tour along Kamelot and achieved worldwide fame, being also invited to play several times in Japan.

”Amaranthe”, their first LP, turned them into the most played rock band on the Swedish rock radio and brought along over a hundred shows, some of which exceeded a public over 10, 000 people, both in their hometown and at the world’s biggest rock festival, Wacken Open Air. In September 2012, Amaranthe entered the studios in Ribe Denmark to work once again with the famous producer Jacob Hansen at the recordings of a new material that is going to be released early this year.

ARTmania Festival Sibiu 2013 will take place between August 5-11, in the Large Square of Sibiu. Tickets and full passes for the ARTmania Festival Sibiu 2013 are now available and can be purchased worldwide from shop.artmania.ro. The Romanian public can purchase tickets in the Eventim network and from myticket.ro, for RON 80/full pass, and for RON 70/day pass until the end of February, reaching RON 150/full pass and RON 100/day pass in the days of the festival. More details are available on  www.artmaniafestival.ro.

Oana Vasiliu

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