EPK – Twisted Mind – From Slave to Prophet (2022)
Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com
“This EP is all about our timeline from where we started back then at the beginning of the pandemic and through the war of getting rock & roll less stigmatic. We strive to be the ones who will break the glass ceiling of musical genres. We didn’t come from great money and wealth. We are warriors, fighting hard and aiming to become something bigger, something that will bring “a word”. And while we are on our way, we try to inspire people to fight for their beliefs, unite for a cause, open their minds to other points of view and create amazing things together which will maybe make the world a better place. That’s why we choose “From Slave to Prophet” as the concept name for our EP.” – Twisted Mind
For fans of Metallica, Muse, Dhafer Youssef, Linkin Park, Orphaned Land
EP Title: From Slave to Prophet
Release Date: December 9th, 2022
Label: Rad Star Management
Distribution: The Orchard
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“An excellent EP made by talented and motivated musicians.” – Pierre Davidson – A Progressive Life – CFUZ 92.9 FM – Penticton, BC
“it’s a cracking tune (Long Live Rock & Roll) that varies in pace, style and has a groove that is catchy as hell. It’s got a spirit and vibrancy that demands your attention, the interplay is excellent and Yanir Chmiel’s vocals are superb.” – Ever Metal
“Twisted Mind hits such a peculiar part of my brain, with a classic heavy metal understanding of vocal melodies melding with modern radio rock production and a sprinkle of folk in the mix. This new EP is bound to attract both boomer and zoomer metalheads alike considering the versatility and widespread catchiness that From Slave to Prophet holds. While the band has the Middle Eastern flair akin to Orphaned Land or Myrath, they also possess a accessible, progressive characteristic that allow them to comfortably share the stage with Trivium or Dream Theater. All in all, I keep returning to this stylistic enigma and love it every time.” – Album of the Month December 2022 – Metal Has No Borders
““Long Live Rock and Roll,” hits hard and heavy. A song that combines the best of rock and roll, turning through the growth… “Walked Through Hell,” shimmers and shifts, twisting the pathways of time forward and bringing the cascading elements…. “From Slave To Prophet,” turns the direction and hits the hammer hard. A burning passion.” – The Median Man
“With 5 songs, the main song is the great “Burning Grounds”, which serves as a perfect picture of what the listener will hear in the 24 minutes of the work. With lyrics that protest against politicians and governments that try to use moments of a real state of emergency to control and silence the population, the song delivers a very well-made mix of elements from Hard Rock and Melodic Metal, which generates a heavy song. , technique, but which does not give up musicality and melodies.” – Roadie Metal
“five pieces which have an enormous artistic value. Rarely has EP touched me so much, and the work done by Dan Saliman and his associates is enormous and of stunning quality. Impossible not to replay these songs which are as human as they are technically impeccable, and we often have the feeling of finding ourselves on the side of the Orient, between marvels and painful history, poverty and richness of the soul. A wonderful discovery, which is reminiscent of the magical THE KORDZ and their sublime Beauty & The East… TWISTED MIND, a band for open-minded freaks and free-spirited music lovers.” – MetalNews.fr
““From Slave To Prophet” is something fresh and different.” – Metal Universe
“TWISTED MIND: Present a fiery new kind of happy metal with the new EP “From Slave To Prophet”!” – Metal Only
“The first band to open the mosh pit in this festival were Twisted Mind,a great achievement for the new band in our local scene ”- Metalist Magazine
“This band sounds like a super tight and professional rhythm turbo unit, creating happy shredding rock with a middle eastern touch” – Yosmusic.com
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EP Title: From Slave to Prophet
Release Date: December 9th, 2022
Label: Rad Star Management
Distribution: The Orchard
Track Listing:
1. Long Live Rock & Roll – 03:59
2. Burning Grounds – 04:49
3. Walked Through Hell – 03:52
4. Back Home – 06:25
5. From Slave to Prophet – 05:00
EP Length: 24:07
EP Recording Credits:
• All songs performed by: Twisted Mind
• All songs written by: Twisted Mind
• Produced by: Omer Lempert
• Mixed by: Omer Lempert
• Mastered by: Maor Appelbaum
• EP Artwork by: Inbar Kassavi
EP Recording Line Up:
Lahav Zityat – Guitar +Oud
Assaf Tirosh – Bass
David Darash – Drums
Yanir Chmiel – Lead Vocals
Dan Saliman – Guitar + Bouzouki
Live Line Up:
Lahav Zityat – Guitar +Oud
Or Levy – Bass
David Darash – Drums
Yanir Chmiel – Lead Vocals
Dan Saliman – Guitar + Bouzouki
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The EP as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)
This EP is all about our timeline from where we started back then at the beginning of the pandemic and through the war of getting rock & roll less stigmatic. We strive to be the ones who will break the glass ceiling of musical genres. We didn’t come from great money and wealth.
We are warriors, fighting hard and aiming to become something bigger, something that will bring “a word”. And while we are on our way, we try to inspire people to fight for their beliefs, unite for a cause, open their minds to other points of view and create amazing things together which will maybe make the world a better place. That’s why we choose “From Slave to Prophet” as the concept name for our EP.
Track by track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)
1. Born To Rock & Roll: A song that empowers rock & roll music and says rock and roll will never die.
2. Burning Grounds: this is a protest song we wrote about the world as we see it today. Corruption in governments, violence, and problems of the world as we perceive them.
3. Walked Through Hell: a song about a failed and toxic love story in which a woman took a man and dragged him through hell.
4. Back Home: a song that was written about a toxic relationship.
5. From Slave to Prophet: a song describing the biblical story of Josef who started as a slave in Egypt after his brothers sold him for slavery, and eventually became a prophet who could predict the future with his dreams.
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STORY ANGLES / FUN FACTS ABOUT THE BAND
1. Dan Saliman (our guitar and bouzouki player) and Or Levi (bass player) are cousins.
2. A year After Yanir (our lead singer) joined the band they all remembered Dan saw him at a night out one day and asked him if he would maybe like to collaborate on a song with his band. They did not try this collaboration and a year passed and Yanir became the lead singer without anybody remembering that night out.
3. Yanir actually came from being a pop/RnB singer to being a rock/metal singer and at the start, he had to learn and practice his screaming techniques, let’s just say his neighbors didn’t really like that.
4. We got a big record deal before we even released our first single to the world but we decided not to sign it because we felt that we weren’t ready yet.
5. One show we had was the blackest show we could ever imagine where one of us smashed his forehead running into a glass door, Yanir broke the mic stand and got the mic itself wet, nearly electrifying himself, Dan fell with his guitar on stage, hitting his eye and Lahav broke his guitar stand which ended with 3 of his guitars hitting the floor hard. So yes, we finished that show, but it was truly one hell of a show.
6. A bonus story: Lahav broke his back crowd surfing at an Avenged Sevenfold performance at Grasspop festival, causing a bus full of touring fans to wait for him to get medical assistance and almost missing their flight back home.
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L- R – Lahav Zitiyat – Guitar +Oud, David Darash – Drums, Yanir Chmiel – Lead Vocals, Or Levy – Bass, Dan Saliman – Guitar + Bouzuki
The AOR rock/metal group Twisted Mind was founded in 2017 by Dan Saliman, an Israeli musician of a Yemenite & Moroccan-based heritage. Dan grew up in a home where oriental music was a Major part of his musical background
After a long process of creating a musical concept, Dan was joined by the other members, achieving this final line-up. The four joining members helped mold the sound, bringing their own styles, influences, and cultural heritage to Twisted Mind, thus creating a powerful combination of music that fuses the power and aggression of heavy metal, throughout the liberating energy of modern rock & roll.
And all this while using ethnical Middle Eastern music – emerging from their homeland and from the band members’ heritage and their own family ‘DNA’.Starting in San’aa –Yemen, through Istanbul – Turkey, passing through the deserts of Libya and traveling the long roads to a garage in Los Angeles.
Twisted Mind EP Recording Line Up:
Lahav Zityat – Guitar +Oud
Assaf Tirosh – Bass
David Darash – Drums
Yanir Chmiel – Lead Vocals
Dan Saliman – Guitar + Bouzouki
Twisted Mind Live Line Up:
Lahav Zityat – Guitar +Oud
Or Levy – Bass
David Darash – Drums
Yanir Chmiel – Lead Vocals
Dan Saliman – Guitar + Bouzouki
SHARED STAGE WITH:
Unleash the pain, Desert, Scardust, Lehavoth, Hotbox, Sinnery, Artland, Subterranean Masquerade, Walkways, Stormbound, Revision The Dream, Bzaat, Dukatalon, DPS, Delicate Disorder, Anti Rabbit, Prey For Nothing
The Great Machine, Ortega, Monsters of Rock, Boten Matok Bakirkas
TOUR AND FESTIVALS:
2022 – Festifiler – Tel-Aviv, IL (Upcoming)
2022 – Sheikh Abreik – Tiv’on, IL
2021 – The Israeli metalfest – Tel-Aviv, IL
2021 – Motorfest – The Golan Heights, IL
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