Egyháztörténeti Szemle 13. (2012)
2012 / 1. szám - KÖZLEMÉNYEK - Fejes János - Kőszeghy Miklós: Rajtunk a Vízözön - Egy ősi történet új funkcióban?
Rajtunk a Vízözön — Egy ősi történet új funkcióban? 43 monotheistic ones, is quite the same, and when people understand that there are many similarities between what they believe in, they become more understanding and tolerant towards the other culture. Our main message is that people are basically the same, and there’s no need to fight over our beliefs. 3. Why are you working in the metal music era, why aren’t you work as civil activists or politicians to spread your message and aim your goals?- I think that in order to be a politician you have to be a certain person with certain characteristics that none of us have, or want to have. We are musicians, and we concentrate on our art first of all. If our art can deliver also a message in order to make the world a better place even a little bit, so it’s our gain. But the truth is that musicians and artists in general have much influence about what people thing and how they live their lives, sometimes even more than politicians do. Our message comes from a clean place, a thing that politicians sometimes cannot afford. 4. How could you descibe your and the band’s religious beliefs? How do you make this to take place in your music?- In general, you cannot call any of us a religious man. I think that kobi, our vocalist, is the closest to religion among us. He believes in god and is interested in the bible a lot. He’s really inspired by it. The other guys are quite free with their thoughts, not bounding them to this religion or that. I could say about myself that I am agnostic. I have considered the question of the existence of god a lot, and I still often do. I think that coming to a conclusion about it will be lying to myself, because these are questions that no one can really answer. One religion says that Jesus walked in the water, and the other says that Jesus was a fraud and a heretic. I mean, who knows who’s right? I think that they’re both wrong, just my hunch about things. 5. Do you represent a kind of political or social critics in your lyrics (I mean any critics against the politics of Izrael considering the diplomacy with the neighbouring countries, or against the social tendencies of the world)?- We are Israelis, and we love our home and want to live here for the rest of our lives. Israel is a country like all others, it can sometime do right and sometimes wrong. I can’t say that I agree with Israel’s diplomacy all the time, but I definitely don’t think that Israel is an evil country that chases the weak minority on purpose. However, in our lyrics, we tend to not enter directly these political issues. There are many wrongs in the world, but with Orphaned Land we tend to focus more about only a part of them, and we succeed on bringing people closer together. 6. Why have you chosen the story of the flood for your 2004’s CD? What is the deeper message of this CD (linking back to question 5.)- The flood is a great symbolic story, and it is also very universal. It exists in many cultures in different variations, and one cannot not wonder if there is a connection between all those stories. The story has a great moral value, and it speaks about cleansing the world of evil, so only the good will remain. We chose to bring our own variation of the story, from a unique and a different perspective. It is kind of a modern flood, like it is happening all over again in the different time and this time the heroes are not Noah and his sons, but others.
