February 14th, 2005 For Immediate release:

ISRAEL’S ORPHANED LAND TO MAKE AMERICAN DEBUT

Century Media is proud to announce that Israeli progressive metal band ORPHANED LAND will be appearing this September at Atlanta’s ProgPower USA VI. This will be the band’s first-ever appearance in the United States. Vocalist Kobi Farhi is thrilled to be a part of this year’s festival and sent this message to fans, “We are happy and excited to announce that we have confirmed our debut show in the U.S.A., and we are coming to bring you a storm from the ORPHANED LAND. Hurricane Ivan was nothing here comes the Flood!! See you all at ProgPower.”

"ORPHANED LAND was the first band I approached about playing this year’s festival,” says ProgPower USA promoter Glenn Harveston. “I have been listening to the band since their early releases starting with 1994’s Sahara, and 1996’s El Norra Allil. I can say that 2004’s Mabool was one of the year’s most original and exotic albums. I’m honored to be able to bring them to the U.S. to be part of ProgPower USA VI." The prestigious festival has previously hosted labelmates Tad Morose, Into Eternity, Mercenary, Jag Panzer and Blind Guardian.

Century Media has a rich and distinguished history of bringing the world top-quality power and progressive metal. Previous and current genre-specific artists include …And Oceans, Andromeda, Angra, Angel Dust, Avantasia, Blind Guardian, Dream Evil, Entwine, The Gathering, Iced Earth, Into Eternity, Jag Panzer, Kotipelto, Lacuna Coil, Labyrinth, Lullacry, Madder Mortem, Mercenary, Mercury Tide, Nevermore, Nightwish, Nocturnal Rites, Onward, Poisonblack, Rapture, Royal Hunt, Sentenced, Solefald, Sonata Arctica and Tad Morose.