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Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs is the sixth studio album by the Israeli oriental metal band, Orphaned Land, and was released on January 26, 2018. Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs is Orphaned Land's fourth concept album, following 2010's The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR, that once again utilizes the concept of light and darkness to convey its message. Described by the band's main vocalist, Kobi Farhi, as "a protest album, a very angry album," Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs is based around Plato's Allegory of the cave—that is, humanity is figuratively trapped in a dark cave; all of their truths are shadows they see in the dark cave, and they will kill anyone who tries to take them out of the cave and bring them into the light. Orphaned Land believe that this allegory still holds true today, and acts as a prophecy two-thousand years later, and thus Plato is "an ancient prophet in a way". Kobi has stated that revolutionaries and leaders are always being assassinated, and are thus like "dead messiahs in a way." From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsung_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)