| El Norra Alila | ||||||||||
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| Studio album by Orphaned Land | ||||||||||
| Released | July 18, 1996 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1996, Sigma Studios, Israel | |||||||||
| Genre | Death/doom Progressive metal |
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| Length | 68:43 | |||||||||
| Label | Holy | |||||||||
| Producer | Kobi Farhi Yossi Sasi |
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El Norra Alila is the second full-length studio album by the Israeli metal band Orphaned Land, released on July 18, 1996 by Holy Records. The album was reissued as a deluxe edition in July, 2006 as a 10-year-anniversary for the album and contains extras; the song "Disciples of the Sacred Oath" and video clips of "Ornaments of Gold" and "The Evil Urge".
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The album conveyed a message of co-existence between Muslims and Jews, which held a concept of light and darkness. There are religious translations within the album name, "Nor" means "the light" in Arabic, "Alila" meaning "the night", "El" meaning "God" in Hebrew and "Norra" meaning "terrible", and "Alila" meaning "tale". This means that the album can be translated as; "God of Light – Evil of the Night" and gives reference to its concept.
The name is a pun on El Nora Alila, a popular Sephardic piyyut, which is sung during Ne'ilah of Yom Kippur.